[Torie]

I don't know if the chart comes through (the WSJ is a pay site), but it shows what I have been saying all along, that seems to be ignored by so many here at FR: to wit, that the fertility rates have collapsed in most of the world, including in particular Latin America, and in particular Mexico.

[Torie]

Hey, DI, check out that bar that has the word "Mexcio" next to it. You too Saberrattler. Cheers.

[Jeremy_Bentham]

bump for later.

[Texaggie79]

[GuillermoX]

Someone flag Paul Ehrlich.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Over the past twenty or thirty years, there has been a sea-change in what passes for scientific inquiry. In the old days, when the Scientific Method was properly applied, there would be a hypothesis which scientists would attempt to verify or refute by means of impartial analysis of the data. Those days are long past. The new "science" works this way: a political group has a vested interest in a particular hypothesis, and undertakes studies to prove their point. Many of these studies do not follow proper scientific methodology. That is, data that does not support their position is either overlooked entirely or the study is changed to minimize its impact. We've been fed everything from the Population Bomb to Global Warming, El Nino, disappearing rainforests, extinction of species, disparity in pay between the sexes, the absence of guns in Colonial America (Bellesiles, the author, made up much of the data), daycare is superior to homecare, Aids is not just confined to homosexuals and drug users and about a million more studies concerning everything from oat bran's affect on cancer to the relative cholesterol impact of butter vs. margarine. All these studies have abandoned science in favor of a political agenda. People are finally, slowly, starting to catch on.

[Alberta's Child]

Population Alarmist: "There are too many people in this world."

Alberta's Child: "You don't really believe that."

Population Alarmist: "Yes I do -- it's true."

Alberta's Child: "If you really believed that there are too many people in this world, you would have jumped off a bridge by now. Since you haven't done that, I can only conclude that your REAL point is that there are too many OTHER people in this world."

Population Alarmist: "Uh, . . . "

Population Alarmist: "Hmm, . . . "

Population Alarmist: "Uh, . . . "

Case closed.

[Faraday]

While I agree with much of what Wattenburg has written here, I think the shot at Buchanan was misplaced. The driving force for immigration is economic, not an overpopulation entropy. Given the great changes in fertility since WWII, perhaps the US birth rate will increase to >2.1. Let's hope so.

[Cobra64]

Thomas Malthus had an interesting view on this topic about 150 years ago. Google search on Malthus and take a look... Interesting reading.

[anniegetyourgun]

More HERE from last Friday.

[Maelstrom]

Told ya so.

[Free the USA]

Check the Bump List folders for articles related to the above topic(s) or for other topics of interest.

[zeugma]

From everything I've read about demographic trends worldwide, the best solution to 'overpopulation' is prosperity. Every place in the world that is increasing in prosperity is seeing decreases in birthrate.

Now, if we could only get rid of evil men like Mugabe, and the various others who still hang on to the failed experiments of socialism/communism, we might have a chance to see increased prosperity throughout the world.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thanks for the flag Torie, interesting article.

Interesting lack of responses too.

[GeronL]

read that UN press release right here peoples

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Environmentalists, the slow-growth crowd and population-control enthusiasts liked this forecast. The overpopulation crisis was real, inexorable, and growing, they argued.

Of course it's entirely probable that their early calls for population limititation has led to people having smaller families.

[patriot_wes]

the U.N. concludes that in this century we can expect a "slowing of population growth rates" followed by "slow reductions in the size of world population."

another problem solved! let's see.....world population, the homeless....

[kidd]

Good reading, see: http://www.oism.org/cdp/V09_02.htm