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Depopulation: A Space Odyssey
American Thinker ^ | January 11th, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 01/11/2025 1:49:16 PM PST by ChessExpert

Imagine being onboard a giant space vessel traveling through the galaxy in the distant future. You are part of a multi-generational mission meant to colonize another planetary system. The spacecraft you are on is enormous and can support a city-state of human travelers for thousands of years. Then, one day, a member of the captain’s privy council comes to a startling conclusion: at the current rate of the vessel’s population growth, human requirements will exceed resources in a few hundred years.

The captain gathers his trusted advisers in secret to discuss the dilemma. One side is not worried at all. Scientists from this coalition point out that before the ship departed, Earth engineers fully expected future inhabitants to continue innovating and improving the vessel’s capabilities. An agricultural adviser explains that the ship has exponentially increased its food production in the last few generations alone. Speaking to this point, the original doomsayer stands and says, “That’s just the problem. The more food we produce, the healthier our people become. The healthier they become, the more children they have. And the more children they have, the faster we will run out of resources in the future!”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: books; depopulation; heinlein; idioticnonsense; orphansofthesky
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Shurk's story perfectly captures a powerful force operating in our era. I think the article is worth pondering in its entirety.

Have you ever noticed that LGBQT are either sterile or tend to a reduced birthrate? LGBQT went from marginal or nonexistent, to preferred in my lifetime.

There are "47 Shocking Population Control Quotes From The Global Elite": https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4288904/posts

If crazy ideas are not countered, people will eventually act upon them. Gain of function research, the Wuhan virus, three flash-points that could lead to WWIII, all serve the purpose of depopulation.

Remember: Depopulation begins with You!

1 posted on 01/11/2025 1:49:16 PM PST by ChessExpert
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To: ChessExpert

No Generation Ship would launch without figuring out the population thing in advance


2 posted on 01/11/2025 1:57:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChessExpert

The worlds population keeps growing and growing. This in spite of Georgia Guidestones, Bill Gates conspiracy theories and poisonous vaccines containing the Aids virus, 5G chips and self assembling graphene structures.


3 posted on 01/11/2025 2:00:26 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: Roadrunner383

The question is, where is it growing?


4 posted on 01/11/2025 2:00:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChessExpert

Gotta have ejection ports. 🌠


5 posted on 01/11/2025 2:01:35 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChessExpert

Heinlein’s “Orphans of the Sky.”


6 posted on 01/11/2025 2:05:03 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I though of that very book.


7 posted on 01/11/2025 2:08:14 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: ChessExpert

Encouragement of homosexuality.
Socialism to make children too expensive.
Automation and AI to keep productivity gains, in absence of people.
Abortion - enough children worldwide have been abortion to populate a 1920’s earth,
War
Disease.

Yes, there is a theme here.


8 posted on 01/11/2025 2:10:06 PM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
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To: ChessExpert

Thanks for posting BTTT!


9 posted on 01/11/2025 2:28:21 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ChessExpert

There are now 8 billion+ people on earth... 100 years ago there were 2 billion... We are not running out of humans. We are on the other hand, running out of resources.


10 posted on 01/11/2025 2:29:20 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ChessExpert

The obvious answer is to immediately send the Doomsayer out the airlock!


11 posted on 01/11/2025 2:29:41 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Roadrunner383

Population growth is at an ever decreasing rate. We are very near the plateau and many countries, like Japan are on an actual decline.

Global decline will occur before the end of this century.


12 posted on 01/11/2025 2:32:56 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Jonty30
IMHO we’re repeating again the decline of civilization recorded in the 2nd half of Romans 1 beginning with verse 16. It happened in the Apostle Paul’s day. It happened half a millennium ago during the first sexual revolution, and it’s happening again in our lifetime.

The question is if those of us who haven’t fallen for the hedonist lies will be like our predecessors and help usher in a new great awakening.

13 posted on 01/11/2025 2:33:18 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: jerod

There are a few different stories that indicate China’s population is not only not replacing itself, but that the 1 Billion plus number is actually more like 800 Million and the government is just too scared to admit it.


14 posted on 01/11/2025 2:42:09 PM PST by reed13k
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To: BenLurkin
“… without figuring out - things in advance …”

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Indeed. The leaders would always make sure things are set up correctly ahead of time.

They will make sure that nobody is so dumb that they build many multitudes
of houses in an unsafe area that is beset by many problems - like being a firetrap.
And they will make sure that the reservoirs are filled and functional.
And the fire hydrants actually work.
We will always be lucky enough to have these things. Right?

So our leaders would certainly be up to the task of shepherding lots of
folks to new planet, right?

/sarc

15 posted on 01/11/2025 2:44:48 PM PST by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: reed13k

India... 1.4 billion... And growing every day. China... 1.4 billion... And growing every day.

We’ve gone from 2 billion to 8 billon in 100 years... At that rate... We will be far too big to sustain ourselves in another 100 years. There just isn’t enough resources.


16 posted on 01/11/2025 2:51:37 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ChessExpert
We should maximize resentments and ossify hatreds.

A key factor, related to the inculcation of the old Victim Entitlement Mentality, right from Lucifer, and employed in the garden of Eden.


17 posted on 01/11/2025 3:06:08 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: GaltAdonis

You mean...uh...life will find a way?


18 posted on 01/11/2025 3:07:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It probably will. Until it no longer does…


19 posted on 01/11/2025 3:20:20 PM PST by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: jerod

I thought China’s population was galling now. Not growing, due to the one child policy for so long and deliberate culling of girl children. No?


20 posted on 01/11/2025 3:25:44 PM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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