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August 30, 2006
Could Moonbattery Lead to Extinction?
Maggie Gallagher is right to be appalled by Newsweek's latest cover story. Noting that plunging birthrates are leading to the depopulation of large parts of the free world, Newsweek spins this as meaning "good things for restaurants and real estate."
Depopulation must be good, from Newsweek's point of view — not only because it means a shorter wait for a table, but because it is the direct result of the social corrosion known as liberalism. As Newsweek puts it:
Powerful social and religious taboos (in Greece) labeled childless women as barren spinsters, and cast suspicion on the sexual preferences of single, middle-aged men. No longer. In the space of a generation, that tight social corset has largely vanished, thanks to an array of factors, including better education and job options for women and Greece's entry into the cultural mainstream of the European Union. The result: a marriage rate below the EU average, and a birthrate among the world's lowest, at 1.3 per woman.
Casual sex leads to fewer babies, because there is no commitment associated with sex anymore, and children are thought of as unfortunate accidents who must be put to death for the sake of our convenience.
There might be a biological purpose to the "social corset" that the left-wing degenerates at Newsweek find so restrictive. Gallagher sites some scary stats:
In Japan, says Newsweek, 56 percent of 30-year-old women are still childless, up from just 24 percent as recently as 1985. About a quarter of German and Italian women appear headed for childlessness. It takes just under 2.1 children per woman to replace population. As European demographer Francesco Billari has explained, at the European average of 1.5 children per woman, the population will be cut in half every 65 years. At a birthrate of 1.3 children per woman, (think Austria, Italy, Spain, as well as Greece and Japan), the population will be cut in half every 32 years.
The good news is that the USA, which is less socially degenerate than Europe, consequently has a higher birthrate. By the same token, conservative Americans have a significantly higher birthrate than liberals.
Maybe there really is a silver lining to depopulation. It would be too perfect if liberals were self-selected out of existence by the very Darwinism they use to prop up their nihilistic ideology.
On the darker side, a depopulated Europe will be all the more vulnerable to demographic conquest by immigrating Muslims — a process that is already well under way.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 30, 2006 2:01 PM
Comments
How isn't depopulation a good thing? Between 1959 and 1999, the world population doubled from 3 billion to 6 billion. The Earth can't support 6 billion destructive idiots like you. But you right-wing nutbags go ahead and keep popping babies out left and right (it's your God-given right to have 11 children, after all).
Posted by: iconoclast at August 30, 2006 3:24 PM
Well with modern western farming techniques we could support the entire planet from a fraction of the land currently in use, but most of the world is still locked in subsistence farming, or using techniques that are woefully outdated, largely because of protectionist policies by socialist governments. Even with our current food production it would be possible to support nearly half as much again the current population but, again, much of that food is simply dumped or destroyed because of socialist subsidies and protectionism.
But that isn't the point. Depopulation in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but when depopulation is accompanied by an incoming population with a fundamentally different culture, and an oft-stated aim of displacing your current population (and a birth-rate that makes 11 children look positively normal), then problems start to occur.
Posted by: Archonix (in paraguay) at August 30, 2006 4:00 PM
Iconoclast, if you think there are too many people in the world, why are you still here? Why don't you do Gaia a favor and Kevorkian yourself, if you really believe there are too many people in the world?
Or, are you one of those hypocrites who thinks there's too much of everybody else, but just the right amount of you?
Posted by: V the K at August 30, 2006 5:47 PM
And, anyway, its mainly the self-centered, atheistic Marxist jerks who are dying out. Judging by the families in my church, four kids is about the mean.
Posted by: V the K at August 30, 2006 5:52 PM
Considering that about 3/5ths of the world populuation consists of prolific orientals who don't give a rat's arse about birth control,
I don't think leftists and other assorted anencephalitic bigmouths need worry about white capitalists and church-goers taking over.
Posted by: Jael at August 30, 2006 9:27 PM
American birthrates would be only a little better than European birthrates if it weren't for the huge Mexican/Hispanic birthrates, much of it coming from illegal immigrants. White Americans reproduce at around 1.9 children per woman and 2.0 for blacks. Hispanics are 3 something.
They are not the friendliest of cultures to the American way of life as the post below this one points out.
Posted by: Susan at August 31, 2006 12:03 AM
Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I think a family's race is less important than its values.
Posted by: V the K at August 31, 2006 6:06 AM
