Report by Duncan Williams for Pulman's Weekly News
Television presenter and farmer Jeremy Clarkson has issued a stark warning about the future of Christianity, suggesting that the sharp decline in birth rates across the Western world could pose an existential threat to the cultural and religious fabric of Britain and Europe.
Writing in his column for The Sun, the 65-year-old reflected on newly published global fertility figures and voiced concern about what he called the “practically universal collapse of fertility in the Christian world”.
“Women with wombs need to get busy,” he wrote, referencing research that suggests a birth rate of 2.7 children per woman is required to prevent population decline. However, he noted, the global average now stands at just 1.44 - with Britain only slightly higher at 1.54, and other Western nations, such as Canada and Italy, falling as low as 1.33 and 1.21 respectively.
Clarkson contrasted these figures with much higher fertility rates in Muslim-majority …
