On my radio program on Monday, I will be interviewing Don Feder, talking about Demographic Winter and the World Congress of Families Summit in Moscow. Tune in on-line at www.catholicradioofsandiego.com to listen. Or listen live in the San Diego area on AM 1000 KCEO.
All you Lefties: tune in and find out if concern about Demographic Winter is really racist. Maybe you’ll catch us saying something mean, and you’ll be a hero to all your Lefty friends!
One has to wonder sometimes if Western Civilization is even going to bother showing up for the the future of the world.
Well, not the way things are going in America lately, at least not according to recent government data as reported in the LA Times:
LA Times:
The maternity business has experienced a recession, too, it appears. Births fell 4% from 2007 to 2009, the biggest drop for any two-year period since the mid-1970s, according to federal government data released Thursday.
Meanwhile across the pond, our British cousins are procreating, but not bothering to get married. Consider a few items published recently by their Office for National Statistics: Read more…
I recently reviewed Red Families vs. Blue Families. (I didn’t like it much.) The authors’ constant refrain was “The Blue State Script works. Delay marriage and childbearing until the mid-thirties, with the help of unapologetic use of abortion and contraception. The marriages last longer and are more stable. The kids are better off. Be like us. The Blue State Script works.”
It all depends on what you mean by “works.” Here is an article in The Weekly Standard that shows a bit of Trouble in Paradise. It seems that the Parents in one of the tonier, Bluer regions of the Nation’s Capitol, are inflicting themselves on the Non-Parents, or as they prefer to call themselves, “the Child-Free.” Listen to them complain in these blog entries:
“Keep your nasty little snotty kid away from me, PLEASE!!!! Do not let your stickly offspring rush up to me in Whole Foods and grab my $250 Ralph Lauren silk skirt with its grubby crusty hands.” Read more…
Lefties are fond of condemning the Right for our worries about Demographic Winter.
They’re fond of condemning us, but not so keen about disputing us. That’s because the facts needed to rebut our worries are few and far between.
But there are points to be made in rebuttal. I’ve never seen any such point wielded by a Lefty. So, let me call your attention to one made by an EEEEEEEEVIL Right winger, John Derbyshire. It comes from this week’s broadcast of his gloomy but hilarious podcast “Radio Derb.”
This is a favorite selling point of the immigration boosters. Japan, China, the European countries all have below-replacement birthrates, and so aging populations. Read more…
Childlessness among women aged 40-44 has increased dramatically since even the baby bust years of the 1970s.
(CBS) Nearly 1 in 5 American women beyond childbearing years never gave birth as fewer couples, particularly higher-educated whites, view having children as necessary to a good marriage. Read more…
Our critics allege that we here at the Ruth Institute want to turn women into “baby factories.”
Okay. So let’s consider that position for a second.
But before we do so, I think we should note this. We can quibble about the number of babies the world needs, but what cannot be disputed is that at some time and in some number, human society is going to need to make babies for its continued existence.
Who should make those babies?
We believe that this responsibility should fall upon women. There are two reasons we believe this. First of all, we’re EEEEEEEEEVIL right wingers. Read more…
Ari’s post about Philip Longman’s book, The Empty Cradle, reminded me that Dr J’s Bookshelf has several titles on Demographic Decline. My little collection proves Ari’s point: concern about demographic decline is not the exclusive province of the Left. including Longman’s book. Longman is at the New America Foundation and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Washington Monthly. His latest book is called, The Next Progressive Era.
Read more…
Phillip Longman in his book The Empty Cradle discusses the possible social impact of declining birth rates. Longman is a progressive. His most recent book is one that praises the politics of the Progressive Era. The politics of the Progressive Era gives right wingers like me nausea. Read more…
The Upcoming Demographic Winter
There is a name for people who don’t believe that there will be a demographic winter. That word is “innumerate.” In other words, those people just can’t do math. As the famous Teen Talk Barbie once said “Math Class is Hard.” Fortunately for Dante, I’m here to administer a bit of remediation. Read more…
I did my interview with Relevant Radio on this story. We should have podcasts up in a few days. We talked about the Demographic Winter and Demographic Bomb DVD’s. Full disclosure: I am among the experts interviewed in the Demographic Bomb.
by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Secularism was to be the wave of the future. Leading secular theorists such as Peter Berger taught that secularism would be the inevitable result of the inexorable march of progress and that its many advantages would simply drive out religion in all of its forms. No serious discussion was possible or necessary. Religion would be deposited unceremoniously on the dustbin of history. Read more…
By Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Why are people averting their eyes from the coming collapse of population growth?
Demographic Winter is an independently produced film describing the consequences of the population collapse of industrialized countries. I have been amazed at the response, or I should say, lack of response to this film. Read more…
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