God is dead and our populations are dying!

For more than a century we have heard the Malthusians tell us about the dangers and damage an ever growing population would do to our societies, to our environment, to the Earth. In recent decades we've heard about the depletion of our natural resources from environmentalists, we heard about the social strain of increasingly denser populations by some economists, we have heard about the dangers of growing pollution to our world if we did not curb the growth of our populations world wide. But little mention was made until recent year of the dangers and harm of the opposite. Only in recent years are we becoming more and more aware of the reality of declining birth rates.

If we look at what has been happening in parts of Asia where there have been government imposed limits on family size. Singapore is now looking at a fertility rate of 1.1 which is so far below the replacement rate that there is little likelihood they will be able to pull it back up again. So what does this mean? Well is means that we are looking at a population that is essentially dying! And what will happen as the aging population ceases to be able to work and there are not enough young people to sustain care for this population? I shudder to think, in a society where abortion and infanticide was the means of choice to reduce their population it does not take much mental gymnastics to imagine a viable means for decreasing the aging population.

When we talk about replacement rates we are referring to the number of children per woman, on average, necessary for a population to replace itself. That is, for a society to maintain a level in the work force to sustain the economy, and in societies that are dependent on government funded programs to care for those who cannot care for themselves to sustain the tax base to run said programs. If the fertility rate falls below replacement rate then there is cause for concern.



In a recent New York Times article "As Populations Change a chance for younger Nations" by Ted C. Fishman author of   “Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival and Nation Against Nation,” outlines for us some of these concerns. One of them is how to care for our aging population. In other words if our younger population is out numbered by the aging populations who will provide for the care necessary for them? The other concern is the economy. An aging workforce is a workforce that will struggle to keep up in a global economy. "The globalization of the economy is accelerating because the world is rapidly aging, and at the same time the pace of global aging is quickened by the speed and scope of globalization. These intertwined dynamics also bear on the international competition for wealth and power. The high costs of keeping our aging population healthy and out of poverty has caused the United States and other rich democracies to lose their economic and political footing. Countries on the rise amass wealth and geopolitical clout by refusing to bear those costs. Older countries lose work to younger countries." 

Immigration while an immediate aid for declining fertility rates in rapidly aging countries, in turn harm those countries from which young people are emigrating. Case in point, says Fishman is Spain and Ecuador. Of course, immigration for one country means emigration from another — and an older population left behind. Spain, which rivals Japan as the world’s oldest country, was for much of the 20th century one of the youngest nations in the West. Before 2000, it had virtually no foreign-born residents. Today, nearly 12 percent of Spain’s population is foreign born. Among the arrivals are hundreds of thousands of Ecuadoreans (many of them female caregivers for elderly Spanish) whose absence at home increases the median age of Ecuador’s population. More than one in 10 Ecuadoreans has left in search of work, and the loss of so many of the country’s youngest and most enterprising workers means Ecuador has little chance of developing. Recently, its president initiated the Welcome Home Program to lure emigrants back with tax breaks and money to start businesses. 


So as people in the environmental movements continue to cry about the need for population control and tell developing nations to forgo industrialization because they need to be responsible for the environment, as the Al Gore's and James Cameron's tell us all to live with less and have less children while they own millions of dollars worth of property and vehicles for families of two, let us spend some time thinking of the legacy we will be leaving behind! I suppose if one loves nature more than humanity the idea of less humans and more nature is not so bad, and for some of these people that is exactly what is the goal. Let us rid the world of the scourge that is humanity so that nature can thrive!


In their rush to decrease the rate of growth of populations nations have used various methods. It is agreed that some of the main reasons for a decline in population replacement and of aging populations are the following: growth in wealth, urbanization (it is harder to have big families in urban areas because the higher cost of living), increase in family planning through contraception and abortion, and more women going onto higher education and entering the work force and waiting to have children until after they have established a career. Barbara Kay argues Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/10/20/barbara-kay-the-coming-demographic-crisis-%E2%80%94-too-much-school-not-enough-babies/#ixzz13UNm5aDr

The lie of many of these modern movements is a better life of all, but it is in reality motivated by a desire to make life better for fewer, the fewer enlightened. Along with this lie are the lies to rationalize the extermination of some members of society so that others may thrive. In the past decades we have seen nations, including our own, justify the whole scale slaughter of millions of babies in the name of  "women's reproductive rights" and a world where "babies are wanted". Some nations implementing actual government imposed initiatives to reduce family sizes to one child per family at the cost of an entire generation of an unnatural male to female ratio. The elderly, sick and disabled are being viewed and treated like burdens to both themselves and their families and being offered Euthanasia as a reasonable alternative to being said burdens. In other words humans are treated as means to an end, are objectified, are dehumanized, so that a few can live in the kind of world that they have reasoned is best.

Should we be surprised? NO! In their book "Architects of the Culture of Death" Donald de Marco and Benjamin Wiker go to great lengths to explain the origins of the kind of culture that makes the above seem reasonable and justifiable. They go all the way back to the likes of Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Sartre, and many more who through have varying interpretations of human nature all share something fundamental in common. They have chosen to extract God from the picture and by so doing have promulgated the dehumanization of humanity. He says that human beings freed from God as these architects would have us, man created by a natural force rather than from God in his own image is then free to define salvation for himself. "The new doctrine of salvation is, to say the least, multifaceted--salvation by the expression of naked instinct, by sexual indulgence, by bloody proletarian revolution, by raw acts of the will, by population control, by contraception, by scientism, by eugenics, and on, and on...Indeed we could well define modernity as the ongoing depersonalization of humanity, the attempt to reduce human beings to the subhuman, not only according to some abstract definition, but also in regard to ever aspect of humanity. The origin of life has become depersonalized by the ever expanding technological displacement of natural procreation by unnatural mechanical methods of conception. Sexuality thus torn from its proper expression, as the unitive procreative  consummation of marriage, has been reduced to pleasure seeking where others and even oneself become mere objects...(H)umane treatment of human beings (is no different) than humane treatment of animals, so that it becomes an equivalent act of mercy to "put down" the elderly and suffering human beings in the same way and for the same reason as we put down elderly and suffering pets." 

What a brave new world we live in! The challenge then becomes how do we reverse the trend? Can we? Kay says that in her research governments have had great success at promoting and implementing population reduction but despite some nations efforts the opposite has not been the case. How do you tell people in a world of self interest as self fulfillment that "oops we were wrong, you need to go back to believing in God, you need to start recognizing self sacrifice as a good, you need to start having big families again and give up career aspirations and higher education at the cost of solid families! The idea of having it all is really a myth!" Can a Godless people accept any of this?

God Bless,

Dominique