Margaret Atwood and "The Handmaid's Tale"

Ok, at this point I can only assume you haven’t read the book. I haven’t seen the series yet but from reviews I doubt it misses the mark that wide.

There is no world wide drop in fertility to near zero in the book and it is not a fertility crisis that starts the coup. It happens in parallel and is made worse by the war.

The book ends with a jump to future scholars talking about the rise and fall of white Western society.

The crisis in fertility is not the driver in the book, it is thrown in as a multiplier. It exaggerates the religious regime, it does not cause it.

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