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Posted on 12/08/2007 3:13:57 PM PST by Jim W N
The president of Estonia goes on national TV to urge his countrymen to have more children. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns his parliament about "a serious crisis threatening Russia's survival": the nation's low birth rate. The government of Singapore is trying to reverse that country's birth dearth by sponsoring a massive taxpayer-funded matchmaking service.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, panicking the world with dire predictions of a population explosion. By the year 2000, he predicted, the world would be so crowded that hundreds of millions would die of starvation. Although Mr. Ehrlich's prophecies have turned out to be almost comically wrong, PBS has produced a documentary taking him seriously, and philanthropists like Ted Turner still donate millions to combat population growth.
But the problem today is not overpopulation; it's under-population. For a population to reproduce itself, the fertility rate must average 2.1 children per woman. (The .I allows for child mortality.) The fertility rate today among major developed nations is only 1.6.
The United States is rare among its peers in keeping its fertility rate at around the replacement level of 2.1, according to the Population Reference Bureau, which provided the fertility data cited here. Europe, though, is shrinking. Germany's rate is 1.3. Despite the stereo-type of large Catholic families, France has a fertility rate of 1.9 and Italy has one of the lowest in Europe, 1.3. At this rate, there will be only about half as many Italians in the next generation. There will also be fewer Russians, whose fertility rate is 1.3.
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Nobody wants to consider the deaths caused by the drug scene. It is huge.
No, that’s not him. The man who did the report for the news show was way more entertaining, and in fact, comical in his report.
But thanks for trying. I will watch this video.
They’ve been replaced.
They just won’t be speaking the same language or look the same.
In no way shape or form was my post ment to promote illegal or legal immigration for that matter.
We are the third most populous country on the globe. That freaked me out a little when I heard it. Of course we have China and India ahead of us, and I don’t see us catching up any time soon, even if we absorb the entire population of the mexican.
There is only one example of a modern industrial nation increasing its birthrate to great result by known means.
Post-WWII America’s Levittown was the model for this baby boom. Soon suburbs across the US recreated this model to similar effect. Its major elements:
1) One breadwinner married couples. The husbands worked in mostly white collar jobs, and the wives were homemakers. Taxes were low enough for this to happen.
2) Child-centric communities with limited entertainments for unmarried adults.
3) Few people in the community who were neither raising children or not interested in raising children.
Importantly, to recreate this situation intentionally in today’s world, no matter where it was done, would probably require subtle, but authoritarian controls behind the scenes.
It would be worth it to create a city from scratch, solely with the intention of making it a national incubator. Most of the jobs would be make-work and low intensity, and adults who were not married or not inclined to have children would need to be kept out.
Women would mostly need to be excluded from the work force, but families would need to get by on the income from just the father. Luxuries would be strictly limited, as would unhealthy recreations that didn’t lead to procreation. OB/GYN, pre-natal, maternity, pediatric and fertility medicine would be good, but there would be no birth control or abortion allowed.
Religion would be an important element, and the government would encourage religious leaders to advocate procreation. Schools would likewise have to be good quality, with plenty of patriotic instruction and sports.
Such a city would need to be isolated and protected enough for the project to work, and would need good management to maintain child production rates, not just have it limited to a “wave” of children.
and all of their descendants are gone.
The problem is that our population disparity (and all that means) will still be filled with illegals and immigrants that have no connection to our basic Judeo-Christian ideals and culture. So, in time, our native lack of fertility will be met and filled by third-worlders.
Doesn’t bode well for America.
I think native born American total fertility rates (TFR) are nearly zero or just slightly positive. Our current birthrates, while well above replacement, are due to immigrant populations who tend to have larger families.
...and all of their descendants are gone.
Good insight. I wonder how many hundreds of millions would that be? It's hard to breath thinking about the utter sadness and tragedy of this.
France and Italy are also offering government sponsored perks for native women who are reproducing.
Ave Maria, Florida?
Why does a declining birth rate translate into a need for immigration?
50 million murdered, 25 million of them females. Over that time, American woman have averaged about 2.3 children per person.
That’s 103,000,000 Americans who never saw the light of day since abortion was legalized.
Just wait until us seniors citizens ask Ahmed and Adullah to support us with their tax dollars.
"So sorry, Shari Law doesn't recognize you old infidels as worthy to take care of"
Thank you!
I have never considered the downstream effect of the boomer generation’s lost daughter’s children. I would, however, ask where you have gotten the 50 million figure for abortions. The last I heard, the figure was closer to 44 million.
You’ve given me some good ammo, FRiend!
Very true, until about 2050, then the world population starts to slip badly
how did Ahmed and Abdullah get into this? All we need to do is leave them alone to kill each other in peace.
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