[Dakmar]

Japan has recently, also with alarm, told the nation that they are starting to run out of people and "women need to work less and have more children to save their culture."

Pardon me for perhaps being a bit obtuse, but I'm having trouble believing that Japan is anywhere near threatened by underpopulation. JMVHO.

[Torie]

This competitive cultural breeding argument (we need more of us than them) is profoundly dispiriting and negative and insular. I dissent and reject it. The human spirit is eternal, and universal truths are eternal, and in time, they will be found. That is my leap of faith, and I am sticking with it until I suspect I depart this mortal coil.

[MissAmericanPie]

Number one, I don't believe for a second that Euro's are a vanishing breed in the USofA. Just another scam to over run the population with those foreign to our culture, history, and desired future of Constitutional, Bill of Rights protected government.

[MinorityRepublican]

Meanwhile, as Western populations dwindle, the birth rates in Arab/Muslim countries are booming as they fan out all over the world, spreading their culture and religion.

Oh great, I get to see this in my lifetime. I'm only 18 years old now. Maybe I was just born at the wrong time, and at wrong place. But it's not too late, yet....

Baby Boomers could care less about what happens to my generation. All they want is their Social Security. There's no doubt that they are the worst generation in the American history.

These new citizens are building countless mosques and demanding their social, cultural and religious beliefs be incorporated into (or replace) existing laws. It is even said that in Muslim religious schools they are teaching that Jews and Christians are scum and must be eliminated.

Gee, for the whole time I thought that Islam is the religion of peace! C'mon, we can't allow this crap to happen to the Western Civilization. If things are already like this now, what would it be like for the next generation?

If there is one, that is.

[JMJ333]

I would call it more of a collapse than a shrinkage.

[Salvation]

Another well-written article with a little bit different focus.

The Economics of Abortion and Contraception, Parts I and II

[Amerigomag]

I'm glad Ms. Stebbins doesn't let facts get in her way. The historical population figures for the US and the projected population growth don't seem to match the author's assertions.

Maybe she was talking about the illegal immigrant population in the US. No. Illegal immigration in the US is increasing at geometric porportions.

I've got it! She was talking about wage earning tax payers. They're decreasing by single digit proportions each year in the US.

[MD_Willington_1976]

me and the wife just added one more "of european descent" to the planet last saturday...his name is Richard Aron...

[brat]

"This past year, the United Nations has twice sent out alarmed bulletins, warning that Europe, the United States, Canada and many other countries have so badly fallen behind in replacing their populations that they are at serious risk of extinction"

Ahhhh...the UN. And their solution is always third world immigration. I'm not buying it.

[Post Toasties]

I think there's a lesson to be learned that Western Civilization currently is being seriously undermined by its widespread belief that children are unimportant and unnecessary to the maintenance of a society and its assumed living standards.

Those who point to populations which are not dropping severely just yet are missing the point. When the first aging, non reproducing cohort (something like 1 child per female, average) dies off in the next few decades, the native depopulation will be rapid unless some widespread attitude adjustments occur.

[gunnedah]

As I say we are consuming ourselves just like the United States Government.We no longer have values,morals or leadership. It is like a cancer eating away!Our politicians are a bunch of self centered egotistical morons. But what does that say for the populace? You be the judge?Have we had a fraud perpetuated upon us and our so called freedom is really a farce? Are there any real differences in the Democrat and Republican Party? Are our political Parties being controlled and run from afar like the stock market? Who and what is the World Bank?

[RAT_Poison]

What effect will AIDS have in controlling the population in the Third World? There is a huge AIDS problem in Africa and perhaps a soon to be larger, although yet undisclosed, problem with AIDS in China.