Speakers Tackle Falling Birth Rates at Texas Conference

Pessimism, though not despair, hung in the air as the ‘tech right’ and trads tackled a challenge that can sink civilizations.

Commentator and politician Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad, at Natal Conference 2025 in Austin, Texas, on March 29, 2025. Nathan Worcester/The Epoch Times

AUSTIN, Texas—The second Natal Conference attracted 200 attendees interested in addressing declining birth rates, according to organizers. But that unifying factor was matched by areas of disagreement.

People of faith and more secular figures from the tech world discussed one of the hardest problems a civilization can face, with at least one speaker arguing against the very premise of the conference.