William De Berg, The Depopulation Agenda—Transgenderism, The Rise of Autism, The Demise of Guys, COVID, and Mass Migration

William De Berg

One of the fallacies of scientific reasoning to assume that seemingly unrelated phenomena are mere coincidences when they occur together. For example, what could all of the phenomena in the title of this article possibly have in common, besides occurring contemporaneously and currently in the Western world? The common denominator is that all of them—and many more beyond the scope of this discussion—may be direct or indirect manifestations of a concerted effort to reduce fertility in the “developed” world.

That fertility in the developed world is declining is hardly news, although still shocking to comprehend. The fertility rate in the United States is now 1.6, down from a replacement level of 2.12 per woman just 18 years earlier [1]. But the fertility rate in Europe has collapsed even further, to 1.38 in 2023 [2]. China, the world’s largest economy and until recently home to its largest population, saw its fertility rate crash to 1.0 in 2023, falling from 1.77 in 2017, just before its “one-child” policy was lifted [3]. Japan ‘s fertility rate has been below replacement for the entire 21^st Century, resulting in rapid population loss and a projected demographic extinction within 700 years if the current fertility rate continues unabated [4]. And its neighbor South Korea, with a fertility rate that dropped to .65 in 2023 before slightly increasing, may go extinct even sooner if its fertility does not soon rebound [5].

There are strong arguments that Earth is well beyond her carrying capacity for humans and, without a dramatic reduction in its population, many key resources, arable land, and freshwater will be exhausted by the turn of the next century. The problem arises as to how the depopulation is carried out, especially whether it is extremely skewed both globally and demographically. In contrast to the declining fertility rates in Western Europe, North America, and East Asia, fertility rates in many parts of the world are still far above replacement levels—e.g., 4.1 on the African continent (which will add nearly one billion people by 2050) and 3.1 in Southwest Asia and North Africa overall [7]. That there are such major deviations in fertility around the world can be attributed to many factors, but some of those factors are hardly accidental, as will be discussed.

The factor that is most clearly related to fertility is the status of women in society [8]. In nations where fertility is highest, women’s rights and financial status tend to be more restricted by religious and cultural norms and lack of access to reproductive health services than in Western societies. But in many Western societies, where fertility is collapsing, the status of women has become so elevated due to affirmative action and empowerment initiatives (‘Take Your Daughter to Work”; “Women in STEM”, etc.) that females are surpassing males in almost every educational area. Males in developed nations, all-too-frequently positive male role models in female-dominated K-12 schools and fatherless homes, overly enamored with video-game, more prone to neurodisabilities, and demonized by labels such as “toxic masculinity”, continue to fall further behind academically and career-wise [9]. In the United States, the result is that over 60% of new college graduates are female, females now predominate among graduates of law schools, medical schools, and most Ph.D. programs (including STEM fields such as biology) [10]. Even the longstanding “gender pay gap” is now reversing in favor of young women [11].

The consequence of the surge in career-oriented, successful women is that they are less likely to marry, because women still prefer men of equal or higher income and educational status [12]. They are also more likely to marry later in life and to choose to have children later in life, if at all. The effect of increased maternal age on lowered fertility is caused by the greater difficulty in conceiving, a higher risk of miscarriages [13,14], and higher rates of autism [15,16]; even high educational levels independently of maternal age may be a risk factor for autism [16].

The societal emphasis and media push in recent decades for women to choose careers over babies is, of course, by design. But is it also by design that there is such shockingly little concern among medical professionals over the rising epidemic of autism, which has a large male bias and is associated with marriage in less than 5% of cases [17]? One would think there would be serious alarm given that the autism prevalence in the U.S. is now approaching 5% of young males (and >3% overall) [18]—up from less than .1% in 1980, when the first official diagnostic criteria were provided to health practitioners. On the contrary, many if not most leading researchers continue to perpetuate the myth that diagnostic changes and greater public awareness and screenings explain most of the continuing rise [19], even though the original autism criteria laid out in 1980 are fundamentally the same as those today and awareness of autism became universal among health practitioners and educators several decades ago. It should be noted that autism is just one of dozens of rising psychological and physiological disorders that have contributed to an overall ‘sickness” level among American youth of 40% [20], a prevalence that until the rise of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement had received scant national political attention.

Another “infertility by design” factor is gender confusion and gender dysphoria. In some surveys, “nonheterosexual” (NHI) identification, broadly defined, has now risen to 9% among adults in the U.S. [21], with perhaps double that percentage among “GenZ” cohorts. For various reasons, some associated with a reduced desire for children [22], NHI is associated with much lower fertility [23], especially in individuals without children from a previous heterosexual mating. While homosexuality per se has in many, if not most, cases, a biological (most likely prenatal) basis, it is still rare—2% in the U.S. and less in other western nations [24]. But gender confusion is definitely being sown by Western social elites and their media, leading to increases in overall NHI. For example, 12% of the characters on American television in 2022 were LGBT [25], far in excess the LGBT percentage in the larger population. Although the disproportionate inclusion of LGBT characters in the entertainment media may help explain the greater NHI among Gen-Z’s, it is less clear how much of the collapse in fertility can be attributed to NHI because of the latter’s low overall prevalence until recently.

An additional fertility-reducer has been the COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines beginning in 2020. Locking down the healthy and vaccinating with untested and dangerous mRNA substances those who will almost never die from the disease (e.g., adults under 30) violates the fundamental tenets of public health. While claims concerning the direct effects of mRNA vaccines on ovarian function in humans are still controversial, a recent study in rodents showed disturbing effects of these vaccines on ovarian reserve [26]. What cannot be denied is that a precipitous drop in birthrate in the U.S. occurred beginning with the COVID epidemic in 2020 and continues to fall [1]. And disturbing evidence is accumulating on the direct effects of the COVID-19 vaccines on increased cancers and overall mortality [27,28].

Mainstream publications argue there was no systematic effort to create a female-dominated society, to deny the increase in autism, to sow gender confusion, nor administer dangerous vaccines to the healthy. They further deny that Western elites even seek to depopulate the world, despite evidence to the contrary [29,30]. But science is not about basking in the attribution of chance and coincidence but rather about finding underlying, unifying causes—in essence, the “conspiracies” of Nature. So, why should we as scientists loathe to seek an underlying causal agent in the collapse of fertility in the developed world?

The flip side of the developed world’s infertility is the bulging fertility and enormous population increases in much of the rest of the world, including Africa and Central Asia. For example, Ethiopia, with a fertility rate of 4.0 and a declining infant mortality rate, has witnessed a tripling of its population of 45 million since 1983 on its way to a projected population increase to a staggering 225 million by 2050 [31]. As noted earlier, much of this high fertility can be attributed to the poor status of women, religious and other cultural norms, and lack of access to family planning and contraception. The fact that many nations in Africa resisted COVID lockdowns and vaccines and emerged from the COVID crisis mostly unscathed [32] arguably widened the fertility gap between developed and developing nations still further. Retaining high-fertility pockets in the world would hardly seem to be the intentional goal of the globalists, given their amount of effort in reducing fertility in many parts of the developing and once-developing world, such as East Asia. But previous population efforts by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Gates Foundation have either targeted the wrong causes or bred distrust in the targeted nations [33], so continuing high fertilities in Africa and parts of Asia would appear to be more a failure than a goal of the Western elites.

Nevertheless, the huge population increases in the developing world along with Western- inspired political chaos and regime change efforts in Africa and the Middle East have led to an unprecedented wave of migration from the developing world to Western nations, officially reaching nearly one hundred and fifty million presently [34]. How many of these migrants are undocumented is unclear, although their numbers are certainly in the tens of millions. Most European governments—and the U.S. as well until 2025—have done little to stop the flow, and Western NGOs have actually aided illegal immigration to Western Europe and the United States [35-37]. The regime change with the biggest effect on human trafficking was the NATO-led ouster of the government of Libya in2011, which had for decades been the gatekeeper holding back migration from Central and North Africa as well as parts of the Middle East. After 2011, the previous trickle of immigrants to Europe through Libya became a tidal wave, often devouring its victims in marginal and overloaded boats in the Mediterranean [38]. Only a few nations—mainly in Eastern Europe and Italy—have made a serious interdiction effort against the immigration tide. It is not coincidental that one of the main topics of the secret Bilderberger meeting of Western elites in Stockholm in 2025 was “Depopulation and Migration” [30]. One wonders if the attendees were applauding or condemning the increases in both, given the pro-immigration sentiment of prominent European leaders such as former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Replacing people with people is not the same as replacing people of one cultural and religious history with those of very different ones, however. All over Western Europe, radical Islam has gained a foothold and is in clashes with modern secular European values [39], leading to cultural tensions, increased violence, and the rapid rise of anti-immigrant parties—known as “far-right” although they are actually very mainstream except in their opposition to unchecked immigration—which in the end could sink the elites’ tenuous hold on political power in the West.

Besides being only partly effective in reversing the population increase worldwide, the elites’ depopulation/migration agenda has created a panoply of negative effects, including: heartache in the parents who become too old to conceive or who have to provide for a child with autism; alienation and demoralization in a younger (especially male) generation suffering from gender dysphorias and other mental disorders and even physical disorders caused by unnecessary COVID vaccines; and societal chaos sweeping Europe and elsewhere in the West, etc. It would have been a lot simpler, humane, and cheaper in the long run to have simply paid families in the developing world money—lots of it—not to have children and to have paid families in the developed world to have more children (as is actually being carried out in nations such as Russia).

Certainly, no one can accuse the globalist elites of not having the trillions of dollars in their pockets to do just that.

William de Berg is the pen name of an American scientist and author of four conspiracy/truther fiction novels: Serpent and Savior, White Spiritual Boy, Divided We Stand, and Shield Down.

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References:

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-birth-rate-all-time-low-cdc-data/#:~:text=July%2024%2C%202025%20/%207:,more%20couples%20to%20have%20kids.

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Fertility_statistics

[3] https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/chinas-failing-bid-reverse-population-decline

[4] https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/japan-accelerating-towards-extinction-birthrate-expert-warns-g69gs8wr6

[5] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11884948

[6] https://www.uneca.org/stories/%28blog%29-as-africa%E2%80%99s-population-crosses-1.5-billion%2C-the-demographic-window-is-opening-getting

[7] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=ZQ

[8] https://worldpopulationhistory.org/womens-status-and-fertility-rates

[9] https://ed.ted.com/lessons/philip-zimbardo-the-demise-of-guys

[10] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/08/07/women-continue-to-outpace-men-in-college-enrollment-and-graduation