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CNN’s Meena Duerson travels to Austin to join roughly 200 “pronatalists” for the second-ever Natal Conference, an event devoted to discussing the world’s declining birth rates and potential solutions. The issue is a hot topic among demographers, economists and Elon Musk.

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