Editing Transhumanism (section)

==== Antinatalism and pronatalism ====
Although most people focus on the scientific and technological barriers on the road to human enhancement, Robbert Zandbergen argues that contemporary transhumanists' failure to critically engage the cultural current of [[antinatalism]] is a far bigger obstacle to a posthuman future. Antinatalism is a stance seeking to discourage, restrict, or terminate [[human reproduction]] to solve existential problems. If transhumanists fail to take this threat to human continuity seriously, they run the risk of seeing the collapse of the entire edifice of radical enhancement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zandbergen |first=Robbert |date=2021-12-09 |title=Morality's Collapse: Antinatalism, Transhumanism and the Future of Humankind |url=https://jeet.ieet.org/index.php/home/article/view/76 |access-date=2023-04-05 |journal=Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies|volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.55613/jeet.v31i1.76 |s2cid=248689623 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

[[Simone and Malcolm Collins]], founders of Pronatalist.org, are activists known primarily for their views and advocacy related to a secular and voluntaristic form of [[pronatalism]], a stance encouraging higher birth rates to reverse [[population decline|demographic decline]] and its negative implications for the viability of modern societies and the possibility of a better future.<ref name="Dodds 2023">{{Cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley|title = Meet the 'elite' couples breeding to save mankind|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = April 19, 2023|last1 = Dodds|first1 = Io}}</ref> Critical of transhumanism, they have expressed concern that [[life extension]] would worsen the problem of [[gerontocracy]], causing toxic imbalances in power. The Collinses lament that [[voluntary childlessness|voluntarily childfree]] transhumanists who "want to live forever believe they are the epitome of centuries of human cultural and biological evolution. They don’t think they can make kids that are better than them."<ref name="Weiss 2023">{{Cite news|url = https://www.thefp.com/p/tech-gods-immortality-live-forever|title = The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us from Death|newspaper = The Free Press|date = May 24, 2023|last1 = Weiss|first1 = Suzy}}</ref>