The only resource we can’t afford to lose is the one we are already losing in the Western world,
us.
Every other resource on the planet can be replaced or compensated for.
Population growth, ZPG and NPG have been Shos’ bugaboos for years and completely at odds with the available data. Alone among the industrialize countries the U.S. and Ireland are the only countries that are (slightly) above ZPG. Every other industrial country in the world and all of North American with the exception of the U.S. is at ZPG or NPG.
By 2005, Mexico’s growth rate had fallen 36% since 1990 to 2.1%, which is ZPG.
Canada and some American “blue” states have something in common, Canada and very few of the “Blue States” have sustainable birth rates; Canada’s at 1.5, NPG
For the first time in over a century the U.S. population is greater than Canada’s
Canadian newspapers got excited in 2007 when the fertility rate, in freefall for many years increased; 1.53 in 2005 to 1.54 in 2006. It is still far below the 2.1 sustainable rate.
Even in the U.S. there are less than 15 states that have sustainable population fertility rates of 2.1 or higher.
Japan’s NPG rate is the worst in the industrial world.
TOKYO, May 5 -- Japan celebrated a national holiday on Monday in honor of its children. But Children's Day might just as easily have been a national day of mourning.
For this is the land of disappearing children and a slow-motion demographic catastrophe that is without precedent in the developed world.
The number of children has declined for 27 consecutive years, a government report said over the weekend. Japan now has fewer children who are 14 or younger than at any time since 1908.
The proportion of children in the population fell to an all-time low of 13.5 percent. That number has been falling for 34 straight years and is the lowest among 31 major countries, according to the report. In the United States, children account for about 20 percent of the population.
China’s “one child” policy has already led to a desperate lack of women since families want that “one child” to be male. I think that China’s already lying about fertility rates and within the next 10 years or so we will see where that shortsighted policy will lead them.
UN data shows that global population will begin to decline in the 2050. While the optimistic projection show that population growth might begin to raise after that, I’m not impressed with their global projections. As for the UN’s “New Europe” projection, the outlook is almost desperate.
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The UN projects that;
” In the so-called "New Europe", the situation is even gloomier. According to UN projections, Latvia will lose 44 percent of its population by 2050 as a result of demographic trends. In Estonia, the population is expected to shrink by 52 percent, in Bulgaria 36 percent, in Ukraine 35 percent, and in Russia 30 percent. In comparison with these figures, the projected population decline in Italy (22 percent), the Czech Republic (17 percent), Poland (15 percent) or Slovakia (8 percent) looks like a small decrease. France and Germany will lose relatively little population, and the population of the United Kingdom will even see a slight growth -- thanks to immigrants.”
There are already ghost villages in
Russia and where population declines have lead to forest reclaiming cultivated land.
The population declined is all across Europe with Ireland being the only country in Europe with a positive population growth.
The unintended consequences?
Eurabia.
From
Germany to
Spain to
Italy declining birth rates among the native population is an open invitation to immigrants, mostly Muslim, to repopulate those country.
When the supporters of Socialism preached “cradle to grave” benefits they didn’t realized that the “graves” were going to out number the “cradles’ fairly quickly.
I suspect that many of us will live long enough to see what's going to happen next. From all the available evidence it's certainly not going to be a long drawn out process. More like a snowball going down hill; slowly picking up speed, ponderous and inevitable
While well intentioned, this is bigotry. And I noticed those bigots all waited to get themselves and their children born before calling for population control.
