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Nicholas Begich: “Eventually you'll take the population down to zero.”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 50:47

That's just math. Over time, if you bend that down just a couple tenths of a. .1 by pushing. Yeah, yeah. You just push it down just a little bit. Eventually you'll take the population down to zero. Eventually. It might take a long time, but eventually you'll do that. And that's what we're seeing in Russia right now, actually, the reason why Russia is going after Ukraine, Russia has been invaded. (50:47–50:50)

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Asserts that reducing the fertility rate below replacement will eventually reduce the population to zero.

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