{"id":49689,"date":"2024-03-31T05:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49689"},"modified":"2024-03-31T05:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:17:41","slug":"italy-demographic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49689","title":{"rendered":"Italy Demographic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-49691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Italy_Demographic_Collapse-300x168.png\" alt=\"Italy Demographic Collapse\" width=\"614\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Italy_Demographic_Collapse-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Italy_Demographic_Collapse.png 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk writes on X:<br \/>\nOnly 379,000 births in Italy for 2023, the lowest annual figure since the country&#8217;s unification in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>PLC comments:<br \/>\nWhat is happening on Earth right now is probably the most interesting thing that has ever happened in the cosmos: a species grew to stand astride the planet like a colossus and then simply chose to stop reproducing.<\/p>\n<p>We are sleepwalking into extinction.<\/p>\n<p>(Tom: The sleepwalking is but one aspect of it. The COVID jab genocide of the living also plays a large role.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk writes on X: Only 379,000 births in Italy for 2023, the lowest annual figure since the country&#8217;s unification in 1861. PLC comments: What is happening on Earth right now is probably the most interesting thing that has ever happened in the cosmos: a species grew to stand astride the planet like a colossus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Italy Demographic Collapse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49692,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49689\/revisions\/49692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}