Both of those pop-cultural products are excellent, but were preceded by the work of a lesser-known writer whose own hit novel about a birth dearth appeared nearly a half-century before P.D. James’s 1992 novel The Children of Men or Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film version, titled simply Children of Men. And almost every pundit who has written about it has evoked either P.D. The shrinking fertility rate-or “birth dearth” as some have called it-has been receiving attention for at least a decade now. NOTE: The following essay contains spoilers.īritish journalist Ed West recently published an excellent essay entitled “ Children of Men Is Really Happening,” in which he tied together the shrinking fertility rate wreaking demographic havoc across the globe and the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, which is also wreaking havoc across the globe.
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