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Demographic Crisis Facing Developed Nations.

Here are some interesting articles dealing with the demographic situation in Europe and other countries (including the USA).

It appears that the population "explosion" has been replaced with a population implosion that threatens western economies and even their very survival. Now it seems that even paying women to have kids isn't enough to maintain the population..

Materialism may indeed do to the west what plagues, wars and the like couldn't do -- cause it to fade away into history.

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Nations Developed Facing Crisis Demographic

I think the problem he is referring to is our aging world population. The median age has gone from twenty something to nearly forty because people have not been having children to replace themselves. More people are dying than are being born nearly every year for twelve years. Here is a great article on the subject.

https://www.junkscience.com/news/eberstad.html

This kind of thing happens in history. We had the baby boom, now the after math of the boom is to have the population settle back into the numbers previously averaged before the baby boomers. Things will settle back into a lower median average in a generation or so, but the number of people will be lower. But to get there, we will have more people dying than being born.

Demographic Crisis Facing Developed Nations. History & Civil Business Politics

In fact, this is a direct result of the old "Zero Population" campaign from back in the 70s and 80s. I remember very well that it was a point of great debate in those days, with Christian and Catholic families being attacked for having "too many" children. The threat of overcrowding of the globe was just as big an argument as global warming is today.
https://www.zpg.org/

Well, they have changed the world, in my opinion. Look at the demographics, now: everyone's worried about not *enough* children. Now they are changing their name to something less controversial to protect their organization from being disbanded. And, in fact they are now jumping on the global warming bandwagon and how it applies to overpopulation. Very interesting.

In addition, here is a link to a 2001 CIA report about world demographics, and the impacts going forward. It's very, very interesting, and worth reading the 100 or so pages, in my opinion.
https://www.odci.gov/cia/reports/Demo_Trends_For_Web.pdf

Nations Developed Facing Crisis Demographic

https://vhemt.org/aboutvhemt.htm#vhemt
Another organization dedicated to zero population growth - VHEMT (they pronounce it "vehement"), or the "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement." In this chatty, witty little website is more viciousness and vindictiveness I've seen in a long time. Thinly veiled insults to the world at large:

Cloaked in "love and logic," these folks want to return the earth to its "natural" state of non-human habitation. Let the animals and the bugs have it back, so that humans won't be driving them all to extinction. They talk about ending human suffering, by ending human existence through a major die-off.

If we don't have any more babies, no more babies will suffer. It's all just so... reasonable, isn't it?

It's sick, in my opinion.

Edited: FarSeer on 14th Jun, 2008 - 5:13am

Nations Developed Facing Crisis Demographic

What I find interesting about some of these groups is they want to end the humans who are not part of them on this planet. They still want to be part of the planet and still be here. So I think a lot of them are going against what they preach. I know the planet seems to go through cycles. I believe that there is going to be a large dying off of species so others can rise up. It is just going to be interesting if humans survive this.

Demographic Crisis Facing Developed Nations.

Here's the problem, in my opinion: Only these Western-oriented groups are calling for zero population. The Muslims are happily breeding the rest of the world out of existence.

Muammar al-Gaddafi says:

This video will open your eyes!

Source 4

Edited: FarSeer on 7th Jul, 2009 - 5:47am

Demographic Crisis Facing Developed Nations.

They say the Muslims are the fastest growing group and religion. If they keep growing in numbers like they are now we may see a Europe that is totally converted.