
Remember those doomsday predictions about human population numbers spelling the end for Civilization As We Know It? It’s starting to look like they were right for the wrong reason: the world is facing not a baby boom but a planet-wide Baby Bust, the dire consequences of which are only now beginning to become apparent.
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“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.”
Psalm 127:3
One way to help the population problem is to end the “heads I win, tails you lose” proposition faced by men for the past several decades. Marrying Western women is the most dangerous threat arrayed against men. Men are not stupid. They are merely minimizing their risks.
It’s all very wonderful for the arrogant blowhards to cajole younger men into risking their futures for a 50% chance at happiness vs. a 50% chance of total ruin. Once the culture swings back to make marriage less of a minefield for men, men will respond accordingly.
So, I will admit that this is not a topic on which I have spent much time pondering. I always thought that people would figure out a way to feed the population. I consider the climate change cult an offshoot of the cult of population boom disaster. It’s all we are killing the planet and there are too many of us. That said I ask the following: What is the problem with a stable population? Why do we NEED an ever increasing population? It seems that we are doing much more in what were once labor intensive tasks thanks to… Read more »
There was s study on rats a while back that may support that supports the prosperity theory. A bunch of rats were given all the food and space they needed or wanted. Initially, they reproduced like crazy. But they peaked and started to decline. Some male rats were having sex like crazy but few rats were being born. Other rats went and isolated themselves, and spent all their time grooming themselves, to the exclusion of sex Does this sound familiar? It seems if life is too easy, reproduction is not a high goal, but self pleasure is. Perhaps humans too?… Read more »
I quoted that article a few weeks ago after hearing about it with ?Jordan Peterson? It’s a 1960’s social science study with disturbing results. When faced with no enemies, males tend to either groom and isolate or lose desire to breed. Females will reproduce less and even eat their young. They predicted that the population would flourish with no predators and all the food and drink and space they desired, but instead the population unexpectedly eroded.
Didn’t Bill talk about this study on a Backstage or TSL a few months ago?
I think that was a Backstage. I don’t get to watch too many TSL but I remember that story.
EXCELLENT, Scott!
Gentlemen, this is not a new idea. Norman Borlaug predicted, or rather recited the findings of the demographic scientists, that the world population would top out around year 2065. That was around 2005. Borlaug was of course the incredible man who fostered the Green revolution, and his message was optimistic; that, using technology available at that time, the world could feed that peak population in 2065, utilizing only the land that was currently under cultivation. Sadly, I do agree that humans don’t handle success well. I lived for 36 years in New York City, and the political culture was in… Read more »
That is an interesting notion that Bill makes, “Too much prosperity is bad for us”
Prosperity is the disease, and Democrats are the cure.
Do you think that the dreaded ‘Global Warming’ scare has anything to do with the decrease in child production?
It seems that children have been traumatized by constant barrage of negative information for decades and I hear fairly often that potential parents are reluctant to ‘bring children into this world of strife’.
Just a thought.
In some countries, particularly the Western ones with our poor excuse for media, that probably is a big part of the reason. I would not expect that to be a factor in Africa, where immunizations, increasing prosperity, and other social factors are doing for them what happened in the west about a century ago.
Here’s a slightly different take on the “why.” Why are people having less children? Maybe it’s because we have coddled our children to the point that they don’t want to surrender the privilege of being children to other children. So long as they remain children, they won’t want to birth children for fear that they will have to grow up.
Just as bad are the parents who refuse to stop being children
I get to be the first name modern feminism as another great killer of baby production, both by actual murder and, primarily, through brainwashing the masses of young girls through our education systems, entertainment, internet and democrats.
My wife and her two sisters were raised by a hateful feminist who taught then having children was the WORST thing they could possibly do and having a child in your womb is WORSE than a tumor. It must be removed – NOW!!