Population implosion: Many nations aborting future generations, creating underpopulation crisis

WORLD ^ | 2/15/02 | Gene Edward Veith

[Caleb1411]

BUMP

[aruanan]

I'm just waiting for the idiot who will say, "Yeah, hyuck, hyuck, but think of how many more jobs will be available without all those people!" much like those who think that the economy would be better if all non-English speaking, non-white, immigrants were to be suddenly removed from the U.S.. "Yep," they blithely say. "If all them people was gone jess think how much more money and jobs and stuff they'd be to go aroun to real 'Mericans!"

[expatpat]

Another good argument against abortion (as if another one were needed).

[toenail]

Russian Depopulation Is a Lesson for the West, by Herbert I. London of the Hudson Institute, January 28, 2003.

[Age of Reason]

Sorry, the world IS overpopulated.

[Dialup Llama]

We are not underpopulation in any real or meaningful sense unless by underpopulated you mean- not enough people to prop up the welfare pyramid state. With unemployment at 11% in Germany and a social policy which delays the entry of students into the workforce until their 30's, there is no sense that Germany is in need of guest workers. The same goes for any western country. The only kind of population increase Europe 'needs' is a large population spike to keep the welfare system going one more turn, at which point Europe will have been overwhelmed by immigrants from hostile countries.

[Dialup Llama]

>There are two abortions for every live birth. That is to say, Russians kill two-thirds of their children before they are born. That, Mr. Putin, is the "serious crisis threatening Russia's survival."

The message to Putin and leaders of all western democratic-welfare states.... stop placing burdens on your citizens and making their lives difficult and they will start having the 'proper' number of babies.

[Loyalist]

One reason "old Europe" is not supporting the United States in a war with Iraq is that politicians in France and Germany fear the reaction among their Muslim voters.

The scalpel of the abortionist is the sword of Islam.

[Henrietta]

I agree. Basically, we have a "crisis" that was created by overtaxation, and, like Atlas, we are shrugging, and saying "We refuse to commit our children to be slaves to your welfare state." Slaves often thwart their masters by failing to reproduce, I've heard. Let people keep more of their money, and maybe then Mom can stay home and take care of the kids. Stop stealing the bread from our mouths, and maybe we'll breed.

For the foreseeable future, though, I have no plans to reproduce. I work really, really hard to make a good living, and I need my leisure time. I probably wouldn't have to work as hard if my tax burden were reduced, but I won't hold my breath on it being reduced, so Granny and Gramps will just have to get by on fewer little drones to pay for the welfare benefits that they desire.

Thanks for letting me rant.

[ScholarWarrior]

Overpopulated by the wrong people. Poor, stupid, totalitarians with evil on their minds.

Underpopulated by others.

[RightWhale]

Earth's population is well over 6 billion and rising fast. What's this underpopulation crisis?

[Thorondir]

WRONG!

With only present day agricultural technology, the world could support more than 70 billion people.

And the world's entire present population could live in the state of Texas, and it would be about as crouded as the city of San Fransisco with parks and high rise apartments. It would take only ten fully cultivated american states to feed that population.

Human beings live on less than 1% of the earth's surface.

So, upon what criteria do you base your assertion that the earth is overpopulated? Just that it seems like there are too many people in your opinion? Good. Then do us all a favor...

[Age of Reason]

With only present day agricultural technology, the world could support more than 70 billion people.

If you have to resort to agriculture to feed people, than the world is overpopulated.

And the world's entire present population could live in the state of Texas.

They could take up even less room if we pack them like they did at Alcatraz--funny how we equate crowding with a loss of freedom and punishment.

Human beings live on less than 1% of the earth's surface.

Then why do we have to pay for real estate if there is so much of it?

So, upon what criteria do you base your assertion that the earth is overpopulated?

Upon freedom.

Just that it seems like there are too many people in your opinion? Good. Then do us all a favor...

There, there, there . . . in a crowded world, you must learn to be tolerant of people having a ideas different from yours.

[Age of Reason]

Overpopulated by the wrong people. Poor, stupid, totalitarians with evil on their minds.

Totalitarianism thrives in crowded conditions--just look at how cities are governed.

More crowding, more laws.

[victim soul]

Why are we so willing to kill others and our future??

[Coleus]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/involved?group=285

[FITZ]

Already Europe has had to import large numbers of immigrants to bolster the labor force, most of them from the Middle East.

How many of those immigrants are living on welfare and aren't working at all? Probably quite a few are coming for the good life but not to work. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait actually have to import workers even from the US and especially the Phillipines so this argument doesn't make that much sense. It's the prosperity and often the dole that draw immigrants, not lack of population.

[Antoninus]

Culture of Death bump! Economic prosperity is impossible in a nation with a declining birthrate.

"If you do not believe in your own stock enough to see the stock kept up, then you are not good Americans, you are not patriots, and ... I for one shall not mourn your extinction; and in such event I shall welcome the advent of a new race that will take your place, because you will have shown that you are not fit to cumber the ground." --Teddy Roosevelt, speaking to a group of liberal pastors.

[Thorondir]

If you have to resort to agriculture to feed people, than the world is overpopulated.

What? Are you joking? Agriculture is how we are fed. What are you, a hunter-gatherer? What are you trying to say?

They could take up even less room if we pack them like they did at Alcatraz--funny how we equate crowding with a loss of freedom and punishment.

Who equates crowding with a loss of freedom and punishment? People increasingly group into cities. They do it because they like it and it is both beneficial and efficient. Besides, many people think San Fransisco is a beautiful place to live. Too bad the commielibs have made it a haven for filthy bums.

But, hey! I heard you cannot get lost in San Fransisco--they have aides on every corner. Nyuk, nyuk!