Posted on 12/11/2014 6:42:24 PM PST by Salvation
We need more babies! Seriously, this is a problem Commentary by Jake Novak We just learned that the U.S. birthrate fell for the sixth straight year in 2013 to an all-time low. Pardon me for sounding a bit alarmist, but this is really bad news for our economy, our society, and all of civilization. Let's start with the economy. I know a lot of us have been brainwashed into thinking that our natural and manufactured resources are shrinking. We're often told that we have a choice of either radically reducing our consumption or our population or we'll eventually run out of water, energy, and food. Excuse me, but this is hogwash. That's because we heard the same thing in 1714, or 1814, and probably the year 10,000 B.C. And they were wrong then too. What's the biggest reason that the doomsayers about the end of the world's resources have always been wrong on? The answer is that some members of those growing populations decided not to give up and came up with new ideas, technologies and resources to replace and improve living conditions. I'm talking about the people who have come up with the technologies to desalinate water, terrace mountainsides, drain swamps and fight disease with vaccinations and sewage treatment. I'm talking about the people who came up with kerosene to replace whale blubber, petroleum to replace kerosene, natural gas to replace petroleum, and so on and so on. All of the above came courtesy of humans. Reduce their number, and you also reduce your chances for the great innovations that make life better for the humans already on the planet and make life more comfortable and possible for billions more to join us. In short, people are our greatest resource. ...
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Why? And what needs to happen now?
I have ten. Did my part.
Chesterton on birth control/population control:
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
I did my part recently. I’m just tired now. I’ll try to push another one out. We’ll see how it goes.
Ping!
BAN... ABORTION... NOW
Hmm... The current occupant of the White House was elected 6 years ago...
Not a bad idea.
Sorry my wife wanted to stop at five.
Birth rates are even lower in Europe and Russia. It’s Obama’s fault? Maybe it’s all Putin’s fault. ;-)
Historically, birthrates fall when people despair of the future.
My wife had 7 at home. The last two walked out.
And the labs keep supporting Abortion.
If i have a child then i become a slave to State and federal government as well as to the mother.
That is a hard decision to make.
True, but they also seem to fall naturally when a modern country achieves a high standard of living. Take away immigration and we have been at zero population growth for 30 years. This isn’t bad for the people necessarily, but multi-nationals, and agenda-driven politicians hate it.
Killing children in the womb does nothing increase the population. Or shaming those with more than 2 kids.
Did the birthrate go up during the Great Depression?
IIRC yes.
WOMENS’ LIB AND ISLAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cS4p9cFlo&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
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