Wednesday, June 30, 2004
In the last few days, there has been several stories hitting the press about the coming population crash in the west.
The first I saw was on the WSJ Opinion website:
The Empty Cradle will Rock
This article discusses how the impact of all of those pro-abortion, anti-life concepts are influencing the shape of the electorate in the US. Just from the numbers lost to abortion alone, it's pretty impressive.
Today I read this interesting review by Christopher DeSales of Phillip Longman's The Empty Cradle, which is a liberal analysis of what is going on in the world today. The review is not sympathetic to the liberal solutions (things like making people exercise more so they can be fit to work longer, instead of encouraging them to have more babies, for instance), but does elaborate about what the fuss is all about.
I quote:
"Today global fertility rates are half what they were in 1972. No industrialized nation still produces enough children to sustain its population over time, or to prevent rapid population aging. Germany could easily lose the equivalent of the current population of East Germany over the next half century. Russia's population is already decreasing by three quarters of a million a year. Japan's population meanwhile is expected to fall by as much as one-third—a decline equivalent, the demographer Hideo Ibe once noted, to that experienced in medieval Europe during the scourges of the plague,"
Recently, I read about how young women in Japan are chosing not to get married in huge numbers...they are living at home with mom and dad, who they basically get free room and board and people to take care of them, and on their low paying jobs, live the high life, hang out with the girls, go on shopping sprees and nice vacations. Young men tend to hang out with each other at Karaoke bars and spend a lot of time on the internet.
Some of what this is saying is to those who have ears to listen is that the wages of modernity, with its roots in relativism, secularism and exagerated individualism is death.
Mr. Longman wrings his hands, complaining that the religious of society will be taking over unless things change. Lumping the religious all under a loose definition of "Fundamentalist," he says "If no alternative solution can be found, the future will belong to those who reject markets, reject learning, reject modernity, and reject freedom. This will be the fundamentalist moment." Mr. DeSales wisely notes: "And they will answer: it is we who created markets, learning, freedom and even modernity, and you who have used them to commit suicide."
Just another example of how the wages of sin are death.
The first I saw was on the WSJ Opinion website:
The Empty Cradle will Rock
This article discusses how the impact of all of those pro-abortion, anti-life concepts are influencing the shape of the electorate in the US. Just from the numbers lost to abortion alone, it's pretty impressive.
Today I read this interesting review by Christopher DeSales of Phillip Longman's The Empty Cradle, which is a liberal analysis of what is going on in the world today. The review is not sympathetic to the liberal solutions (things like making people exercise more so they can be fit to work longer, instead of encouraging them to have more babies, for instance), but does elaborate about what the fuss is all about.
I quote:
"Today global fertility rates are half what they were in 1972. No industrialized nation still produces enough children to sustain its population over time, or to prevent rapid population aging. Germany could easily lose the equivalent of the current population of East Germany over the next half century. Russia's population is already decreasing by three quarters of a million a year. Japan's population meanwhile is expected to fall by as much as one-third—a decline equivalent, the demographer Hideo Ibe once noted, to that experienced in medieval Europe during the scourges of the plague,"
Recently, I read about how young women in Japan are chosing not to get married in huge numbers...they are living at home with mom and dad, who they basically get free room and board and people to take care of them, and on their low paying jobs, live the high life, hang out with the girls, go on shopping sprees and nice vacations. Young men tend to hang out with each other at Karaoke bars and spend a lot of time on the internet.
Some of what this is saying is to those who have ears to listen is that the wages of modernity, with its roots in relativism, secularism and exagerated individualism is death.
Mr. Longman wrings his hands, complaining that the religious of society will be taking over unless things change. Lumping the religious all under a loose definition of "Fundamentalist," he says "If no alternative solution can be found, the future will belong to those who reject markets, reject learning, reject modernity, and reject freedom. This will be the fundamentalist moment." Mr. DeSales wisely notes: "And they will answer: it is we who created markets, learning, freedom and even modernity, and you who have used them to commit suicide."
Just another example of how the wages of sin are death.
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