Posted on 09/22/2014 6:50:14 AM PDT by wagglebee
Editor’s Note: The following address was delivered by Don Feder, communications director for the World Congress of Families, at the International Forum: Large Family and the Future of Humanity in Moscow September 10-12, 2014.
If current trends continue, we won’t run out of energy or other natural resources in the foreseeable future. We will run out of people. This global catastrophe will be the result of rapidly declining fertility, known as Demographic Winter.
In 1960, worldwide, the average woman had 5 children. Now, that number is 2.6 and falling – in other words, a decline of almost 50 percent in a little more than 50 years. Today, 59 countries with 44 percent of the world’s population have below-replacement fertility. Many developed nations have fertility rates of 1.5 or lower, with 2.1 needed just to replace current population.
This didn’t happen spontaneously. Demographic Winter is the direct result of the Sexual Revolution – which first became noticeable in the late 1960s, not coincidentally, about the time birth rates began to fall.
The dogma of the Sexual Revolution – which has become ingrained social wisdom in the West -- might be summarized as follows:
The prophets of the Sexual Revolution include Sigmund Freud, “researchers” like Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, pornographers like Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, and feminists like Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, and Simone de Beauvoir. In the United States, the Sexual Revolution is spearheaded by groups like Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, the (homosexual) Human Rights Campaign, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS).
The impact of the Sexual Revolution on fertility cannot be overstated.
For the first time in history, just under half the world’s population of child-bearing age uses some form of birth control. By 2015, the global contraceptives market will generate an estimated $17.2 billion annually.
Overwhelmingly, this is financed by governments, businesses or international aid agencies. Other species have become extinct. Ours may be the first to finance its own extinction.
Worldwide, there are approximately 42 million abortions a year. That’s more than twice the number of military deaths in World War II.
From a demographic perspective, we’re not just losing 42 million people annually, but also their children, grandchildren and other descendants down through the ages. We are, quite literally, aborting our future.
The flight from marriage has affected fertility even more profoundly than contraceptives. In France, in 2010, more people began living together than married.
In the United States, in 1960, 59 percent of 18-to-29-year olds (those in their prime childbearing years) were married, compared to only 20 percent today.
Once a central reality of existence, marriage is increasingly optional. In its place have come cohabitation, casual liaisons and out-of-wedlock births. Not surprisingly, fewer marriages – especially early marriages -- result in fewer children.
Just as Demographic Winter is the result of the Sexual Revolution, the latter is the result of something called Cultural Marxism – a movement associated with Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse.
Cultural Marxism was their answer to the failure of worldwide revolution after the First World War. Gramsci believed family and church gave workers what communists called a “false class consciousness” that made them immune to the appeals of Marxism.
The solution, then, was to destroy the family and religion – and what better way to do that than to foster sexual license and a society oriented toward mindless pleasure and away from hearth and home.
While there’s no proof that dramatically declining fertility is what Cultural Marxists wanted, it’s the natural consequence of creating a highly eroticized society where family is viewed as an obstacle to self-fulfillment and children as a burden.
We won’t find our way out of the forest of Demographic Winter until the Sexual Revolution is overthrown -- its prophets exposed and its dogma debunked.
Ultimately, the Sexual Revolution is about death – abortion, contraception, sexually-transmitted disease, pornography and promiscuity, in place of marriage, fidelity, procreation, and responsibility.
To combat both the Sexual Revolution and Demographic Winter, we must embrace a philosophy of life. For does not the Bible tell us: “I have set before you this day life and death, blessing and curses. Therefore, choose life so that you may live – you and your children.”
This is the single greatest crisis that mankind has ever faced and not only is nobody talking about it, the left wants to accelerate it.
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While I admire the thought and effort, and I’m always up to fight the good fight, we are highly outnumbered, dying off and have few weapons.
The US’s fertility rate is 1.89 which less than replacement levels (2.1) so how can it get to over 400 million by 2060?
World population is only growing at 1.1% annually, but even that number will soon go negative.
Not to mention the die off from some plague that is tacitly supported by our government or economic collapse event all set up to thin the herd.
As the US fertility rate decreases the population will continue to rise. Is that correct?
Sounds very similar to the climate changers. As the globe decreases in temperature the Earth’s climate will keep heating up.
That’s the ticket!
Possibly...and I can’t imagine a mechanism by which to turn the tide. Once that cat got outa the bag, there’s no recapturing it. The movement will serve to work in such a manner that the cultural marxists won’t reproduce themselves. So, humanity will decrease in numbers. But we’ve seen this at work in Europe and what we’ve learned is that as societies become wealthier, their fertility rates decline past the replacement level. Then, of course, to fuel their economies, they resort to unbridled immigration policies. So, by way of its very success, Western Civilization is set for self-extinction.
No surprise then certainly that Hollyweird and Cable TV have recently celebrated Kinsey, Masters and Johnson in their works.
10% of U.S. population growth as a whole is due to immigrants and the first generation children of immigrans.
The third world is producing plenty of children to replace us old fogies. When I go to the grocery store and see the families with EBT cards and 5 or 6 kids in tow I have no worries I won’t be replaced.
Women no longer NEED men, hence far too many no longer desire marriage; that is the problem. Women have government safety nets as a substitute for men, and are now free to engage in promiscuity without consequences. Men have of course adopted to the new norm, and the majority also do not want marriage, since they can get sex whenever and wherever they want-- we have a culture of hedonism. How to go back? Eliminate all forms of social welfare, for a start. Eliminate no-fault divorce next. I don't now how we can bring back morality, but that would help as well.
Immigration contributes to 80% of our population growth.
Au contraire. Birth rate dropped more from 1955 to 1965 (5.5 births per thousand), prior to the Sexual Revolution, than from 1965 to 1975 (4.5 births per thousand).
http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/fam-kids.html
Drop in birth rates has been a continuing process since 1800. Here's a graphic.
http://lamarotte2.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-steady-drop-in-crude-birth-rate.html
No big change in the pattern can be seen in the 60s, coinciding with the sexual revolution, just a continuation of the drop, starting about 1955, that was a result of the end of the Baby Boom.
I agree in general with the author's POV, but wish he'd use accurate data to support his position, not just make stuff up.
Our increase in population is largely due to immigration, not birth rate.
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