THE UNSEEN APOCALYPSE–DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER: THE FATAL FALL OF FERTILITY WORLDWIDE

imho, no, Africa doesn't win again.

I remember seeing somewhere that the Population of Europe in 1700 was 3 times that of Africa (don't think they had any citations), but now Europe is 50% that of Africa.

Why? Europe developed modern medicine earlier - so more babies lived and people lived longer and more productive lives. As that increased, less people had 12 babies and more lived to 80

That's happening now in Africa and as that happens, the number of kids they have reduces

Is it a problem? I don't have enough knowledge to state anything factually but I can state what I think based on the limited knowledge I have

To me, this is not a problem - we had a population of 1 billion in 1700 and we're not going to go down to that level again - or at least in this century.

the World's population looks to peak at 10 billion, but NOTE

The population increase peaked in 1968 - since then the growth in population is because people live longer

When you look at "Karate Kid" vs "Cobra Kai" it will tell you

Pat Morita in the movies was the same age that Ralph Macchio is today in Cobra Kai

But Ralph looks younger - and it is not just actors - 60 year olds today are healthy and more active and productive than 60 year olds in the 1980s

Today's kids could quite easily live to their 80s or be centenarians - and be productive for much of that time period

Actually, the advances have been more about population density - more people gathered together, sharing information and brainstorming.

So... cities

Hunter-gatherers grouped together at places like Gobekli Tepe - leading to agriculture.

Agriculture lead to people banding together in cities in Egypt, in Sumeria, in the Indus valley, in the Yangtze valley which led to more developments.

Then the megacities of Rome, Hastinapur, Xi’ang etc. became thought incubators.

It is population density more than just population that drives this innovation.

One could also argue that the internet has reduced us all to one village — today I may have a call with a group including people from Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Warsaw, Praetoria, Montevideo, Dallas and a village in Montana — and that’s a “population density” for brainstorming.

Worldwide, the fertility rate fell by almost 50% in less than 70 years – from 4.7 in 1950 to 2.4 last year. Within the next decade, we will arrive at below-replacement fertility.

Worldwide there are 73 million abortions a year. That’s more than three times the number of military deaths in World War II.

In a Pew Research Poll released last November, 44% of Americans ages 18 to 49 who don’t have children said they don’t want them. And in a very rare agreement with Pope Francis:

Why do so many Americans want a life without children? Pope Francis provided a partial answer when he observed late last year: “We see a form of selfishness. People don’t want to have children. Maybe they’ll have one child and not more than that. And many couples don’t have any children because they don’t want any…. But they have two dogs and two cats.” Which I relate to, "59% of youth and young adults said they were very or extremely worried about climate change and more than 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning." - As climate changes, climate anxiety rises in youth

as with yelling "Fire" in a theater, anxiety rises relative to cries of alarm. Yet much as a result of spiritual declension and contraception=one or two child households majority along with unprecedented prosperity then Americans have increasingly become less resilient and suicidal.

Fifty years ago suicide among young people aged 15–24 was a relatively infrequent event and suicides in this age group constituted less than 5% of all suicides in the United States. As can be seen in Figure 21.1, between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, the rate of suicide rose markedly among this age group. This increase was observed most dramatically among young males, whose suicide rates more than tripled between 1955 and 1977 (from 6.3 per 100,000 to 21.3). Among females ages 15–24, the suicide rate more than doubled during this same period (from 2.0 per 100,000 to 5.2). By 1980, suicides by 15-to 24-year-olds constituted almost 17% of the approximately 30,000 suicides in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics, n.d.). - https://academic.oup.com/book/38543/chapter/333673952

From 1970 to 1980 the suicide rate for older teen-agers and young adults, both male and female, rose 40 percent, the national Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday.Feb 22, 1987. - https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/22/us/youth-suicide-is-rising.html

October 12, 2022: Teen Suicides Jump 29% Over the Past Decade,
If one could compile all the negative effects of contraception since it began to be a such a norm that the average women is on birth control for at least 44 years* from contamination of the water (which is typically not tested for estrogen) to spoiled children (due to parents waiting to have one or two children until financially comfortable) to having no brothers and sisters (as of 2014, 20% of households) or just one (over 40% of households, while over 40% had 4 or more children as late as 1976)) to learn how to tolerate others and share (, to childless feminists looking for fulfillment by becoming Woke warriors, to rampant STD's (which will only increase with this male contraception) then it would far outweigh any long-term benefits.
*CDC: In 2015–2017, 64.9% of the 72.2 million women aged 15–49 in the United States were currently using contraception. The most common contraceptive methods currently used were female sterilization (18.6%), oral contraceptive pill (12.6%), long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) (10.3%), and male condom (8.7%).

The United States has not even considered as yet that during the Communist years, Russia fell headlong into a grave the USA is even now plunging headfirst into .

The grave was the fantasy of a godless, morals free utopia, peopled by a soulless, polymorphously perverse industrial robot. All of the death-dealing poisons that sent Russia into the grave, ranging from dehumanizing Darwinism as origin account, hatred of the Christian God, death of the family, abortion for any reason, gender-bending, subversion and perversion of children, celebration of homosexuality, lesbianism, pederasty and so on, are sending our own land into the grave.

As Russia's birth-to-death replacement rate plunged and has not recovered, so has our own.

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