[Fitzcarraldo]

the euros have forgotten which part is supposed to go where

[Allegra]

FREERIDER ping!

[RightWhale]

Is there a shortage of people anywhere? There are twice as many as there were fifty years ago and that seemed like it was fairly crowded. Even this town has doubled, doubled, and doubled again in that time.

[Gorzaloon]

On the contrary: as seen from the dinner party circuit, the real crisis is the difficulty for female graduates in getting anyone to breed with. Forty per cent of women graduates don’t have a single baby at the age of 35.

A part of this is due to men being afraid to breed, since so many marriages end with Child Support and Alimony.

Add to that these perceptions I have been noticing lately on TV:

Fathers are useless laughable dolts and buffoons.

On commercials ALL Alzheimer's patients are men.

No one needs men. "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle", etc.

OK, that was the culture that was introduced. Now live with it.

[live+let_live]

Simple choice really, parent or dinosaur.

[econjack]

Britain’s birthrate, growing at its fastest for nearly 30 years – at 1.87 children per couple – is, says the author of its report, Professor John Guillebaud, an environmental liability. “Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia.”

Oh, brother...here's pseudo-science at its best. More environmental BS suggesting that we should go back to living in mud huts or at least feel guilty that we don't. Prof. John is missing the real issue:

Forty per cent of women graduates don’t have a single baby at the age of 35.

It is the uneducated who are propagating at a rate far in excess of the educated population. In the old days of the agrarian economy, children were an investment that raised family productivity. Today, children are a (very expensive) consumption item. It's not by accident that some of the highest birth rates are associated with the lowest educational rates.

[Brilliant]

They should be required to purchase a child credit first. Pay someone in Africa not to have a baby.

[eleni121]

Excerpt from ths site

http://www.iccv.ro/romana/conf/conf.sibiu.2003/pdf/17.%20Raluca%20Popescu.pdf

“The average fertility rate in the EU reached a post-war high in the middle of the ‘60s (about 2.75 children per woman), falling sharply until the end of the ‘70s and then engaging into a more gradual decline until the mid ‘90s. The lowest level was reached in 1995 (1.42), climbing again
slightly to settle at about 1.45 children per woman. In 2000, the figure increased to 1.53, the highest for the last 10 years.

Although the trends observed have generally been convergent, important variations can be noted. Countries that had the highest fertility rates at the beginning of the ‘80s (southern countries and (Ireland) recorded the biggest reduction (more than 30%), having in present the lowest fertility rates (Spain – 1.22, Italy – 1.25, Greece – 1.30). The highest figure occurs in Ireland and France (1.89) followed by Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands (between 1.72 and 1.78).”

[television is just wrong]

i think that white guilt has manifested itself in a lack of will to reproduce. maybe we feel we don’t deserve to exist?

after all the muslims and latinos have so much more to offer.

not being racist here, just stating the multicultural beliefs.

[MinorityRepublican]

If you’d like to be on this Death of the West ping list, please FR mail me.

[Cpl.Nym]

The enviroweenies are living in the past. Everything Paul Ehrlich wrote in “The Population Bomb” was wrong. The fact is that worldwide population will soon begin to decline. Ben Wattenberg has written two statistic-laden books about this: “The Birth Dearth” and “Fewer”.

Replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman, which is about the current birth rate in the U.S.. The birth rate in the “Less Developed Regions “(U.N.term) has fallen from 6.16 children per woman in 1950 to 2.92 in 2005. Wattenburg sees this trend as continuing-mainly due to migration from rural poverty to cities:”where fertility and family size are invariably lower.”

By the late 1980s the birth rate in the “Developed Regions” had sunk to 1.8 children per woman, or below replacement rate. In Europe the fertility rate has declined from 2.66 in the 1950s to the current 1.38. In the same time period the Japanese fertility rate has declined from 2.75 to 1.32.With a current fertility rate of 1.14 and high death rates from vodka and AIDS Russia is a disaster. It is losing population at a rate of 800,000 per year

While Muslim birth rates have declined,they have not declined nearly as fast as European birth rates. That problem is a central theme of Mark Steyn's important book "America Alone" Ben Wattenberg adds:"Western civvilization'of which America is now the point of the lance, is up against a ferocious enemy:Islamists who seek to destroy the modern and mostly beneficial American values that have shaped the modern world

In the last chapter of Fewer, Wattenberg points out that activist environmentalists still believe that the problem is too many people ,especially wealthy types with big houses and SUVs. But the facts seem to play out differently. The developed countries have less polution, not more. The enviros aren't satisfied with lower pollution and a slowly declining population. I think the most rabid of them would really like to kill off everyone except about a half million enviros.

[SuziQ]

On the contrary: as seen from the dinner party circuit, the real crisis is the difficulty for female graduates in getting anyone to breed with.

With attitudes toward sex and babies like that, who would WANT to make a baby with them?