Posted on 03/03/2023 2:06:05 AM PST by spirited irish
Shmuley Boteach, an Orthodox Rabbi and the father of nine, writes: “A world that has lost its innocence has trouble appreciating beings that are innocent. A world that has become selfish has soured on the idea of a life of selflessness. A world that has become grossly materialistic is turned off to the idea of more dependents who consume resources. And a world that mistakenly believes that freedom means lack of responsibility is opposed to the idea of needy creatures who ‘tie you down.’”
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This was the real goal of the fake pandemic.
Pretty important article/subject for looking like a dead thread. Maybe it is the long lead time for recovery that is the turn off.
Your home page is impressive. It was a pleasure to read.
This was the real goal of the fake pandemic.
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But, unless I missed it, the author’s assessment didn’t even factor in the plandemic psychos and their deliberate depopulation agenda. She did mention Japan and China with their government enforced/promoted one child policies. Of course, the Davos world architects figure robots will do all the work and make the diminishing populations happy just sitting around doing nothing.
I don't believe anyone reading this will seriously argue that increased population drove the computer age. In fact, there is some argument to be made that the computer age has had the effect of reducing population.
As to the medieval age, the author might rethink his premise if he reflects on the Black Death which depopulated much of the known world, especially Europe, resulting in many positive developments such as increase in wages and standard of living of peasants because their labor had become scarce and demanded better remuneration. The Black death reduced population yet delivered an "advance in human history."
Wars for conquest of land and imperialism in general were often driven by the belief that growing populations needed to feed themselves from their neighbors bounty. Native Americans might argue that not only good things come from population growth. In the modern age we can cite urban sprawl as the negative consequence of population growth.
Too many assertions in this article are blandly made without proof. We shall see whether we need all these workers in the age of robots and artificial intelligence to produce goods and services. We shall see in an age of advanced medical science and wonderful new inventions whether we need more consumers or whether consumers will simply consume more goods and services and, for example, health care. Maybe we will just live better enslaving robots in a wonderful new age of artificial intelligence and marvelous materials.
This trope of Peter Zaihan in which everything turns on population might have some merit but have a care, the Chinese are learning all about the unintended consequences of trying to shape demography by government fiat.
Let God do it.
I don’t think this is really as dead a thread as you think. I am betting that a lot of people read it and just don’t know how to comment on it. Population collapse is a huge threat, but what can we do about it? We can’t legislate to force people to have children, can’t shame them as the shameless don’t care.
And it’s not a topic for jokes and humorous comments for us.
I just wanted to thank Spirited for posting about it, and also say that I agree with Wita that this was a major reason for the scamdemic.
It’s in God’s hands now.
Look at who’s having large families
He left out Muslims. Every family I see has 3-4 little ones trailing mama.
Look how England and Sweden has been transformed by the fecund “migrants” they insisted on welcoming to their countries at the expense of their own populations.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/history-oral-contraception/2000-06#:~:text=The%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration,as%20it%20is%20popularly%20known.
"..The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive in 1960. Within 2 years of its initial distribution, 1.2 million American women were using the birth control pill, or the "pill," as it is popularly known..."
Bfl
The statement that “every advance ... driven by population growth” is one sentence in the article and hardly the main point.
While it may have been clumsily stated, there is a very real way in which population enables technology: Even fairly simple items ultimately require large numbers of people, even several large industries in the current forms. Consider the pencil example often used.
Then consider everything that has to come together for something complicated like a computer or a car. All the knowledge in the world won’t help you if you can’t gather enough people to produce the thing.
Reduce the population to preindustrial levels and you are going to find that is largely the technology you wind up with.
Also, a large population provides the capital needed to industrialize and the market to justify it. Even though there is no technology to speak of in a pencil, no one needs to mass produce them if 20 miles is a days ride and there are only a few thousand people living in the thousand square miles you have easy access to.
A very large population is necessary to have the very few people at the right of the bell curve with the right combination of intelligence and initiative to accomplish great things.
It could be said similiar things are happening in the US. My question given that that may be happening is what happens when an otherwise 1st workd nation with the 2nd largest nuclear arsenal in the world and 92 nuclear power plants suddenly becomes 3rd world immigrant majority?
We are on the fast track to becoming the next South Africa.
Well, my daughter’s doing her part. I’ve got 5 grandkids.
It’s biblical...
Somewhat out of context, but looking at your graph, I think, “Africa wins again.”
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I read a position paper on this.
With the Chinese laws against having more than one child for decades, coupled with infertility rates and a rising age of the global population... famine, war, starvation (at el), the next 30 years will witness a significant die off.
What needs to be done in the present is to figure out what and how all the cadavers will be efficiently disposed of.
Traditional burial rights and practices are probably not going to be feasible. The Chemicals alone might be harmful but will breakdown over time.
Cremation takes energy that nobody willing would care to expend. Perhaps composting bodies and returning the compost back to areas where the soil has been degraded through synthetic petrochemical agricultural practices is gaining traction.
In 50 years, with large swathes of the global population gone through natural attrition, it might be pretty nice around here.
“Every advance in human history has been driven by population growth – from the industrial revolution to the computer age.”
That’s probably a very small piece of the pie chart. Perhaps it’s the bigger slice then we can imagine with the historical markers we’re left working with presently.
Geological markers reveal many more catastrophic extinction events that modern science and theorists alongwith their egos are willing to abdicate.
In the future, very few will know what it is like to have a brother or a sister. Siblings will cease to exist, and every child will mostly be an only child.
I think having siblings has always been part of our culture’s history and environment.
This unravelling of human norms may affect the only child’s psychology to the point where society and human nature itself will be changed.
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