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2021-07-01 Science & Technology

[SPECTATOR.ORG] It may be the most astonishing story of the year that no one is paying much attention to. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported on their front page, "Chinese officials are drawing up plans to further loosen birth restrictions and transition toward policies that explicitly encourage childbirth," (emphasis added).
My personal opinion is that population growth has probably peaked. Couples can limit the number of their children with just a little pill.
According to Chinese insiders, China, the most populous nation on the planet, is replacing its brutish childbirth restrictions with a program allowing, and even rewarding, couples for having kids. Beijing has announced that its demographic problem today is too few young people, not too many.

The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
put the point even more emphatically in its coverage of this amazing twist of fate, by acknowledging in a headline that the dreaded "population bomb" of the 1960s and ’70s has turned into a global "population bust."

Let us put it even more concisely: the greatest environmental/demographic scare of the second half of the 20th century — overpopulation — is now officially conceded to have been a monumental fraud.

To appreciate what an embarrassing reversal this is for the green movement, consider that 40 to 50 years ago nearly all the scientists, policymakers, U.S. government agencies, and experts at the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
told us that rampaging population growth would lead to a Malthusian doomsday with the world in our lifetimes running out of food, energy, and nearly everything else. If ever there were an ironclad "scientific consensus," this was it.

In their 1967 book Famine 1975!, U.S. government agronomist William Paddock and Foreign Service officer Paul Paddock predicted that population growth would soon lead to such mass starvation in so many nations that triage would be required and that nations like India and Egypt should be written off as "can’t-be-saved."

Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich became the most famous academic in the world with his mega-bestseller The Population Bomb and its widely quoted opening sentence: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." Ehrlich was Al Gore
Al Gore

...Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, Global Warming prophet and speculator, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore...
before there was Al Gore.
there have always been charlatans and assholes. Gore was just a snotty liberal hypocrite that he made me wanna punch his fat face every time I saw him
It wasn’t just some academic kooks who were peddling these apocalyptic predictions. In 1975, a statement signed by such luminaries as soon-to-be National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, business titans J. Paul Getty and Henry Luce III, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, and others appeared on a full page of the Wall Street Journal with a similar forecast: "The world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000," because "food production cannot keep pace with the galloping growth of population."

Posted by Fred 2021-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Heh heh! Paddock & Paddock,
writing off countries as gone.
Scaring up some book reviews
while munching GMO corn.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ahh...

Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-01 01:47|| 2021-07-01 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Couples can limit the number of their children with just a little pill.

Before, after or with a visit to the ever convenient drive-up for a DNC.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-01 07:44|| 2021-07-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 So we will die from population bomb and covid?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-07-01 11:09|| 2021-07-01 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 As we have seen in country after country that becomes a 2nd or 1st world country, their population naturally declines. People like their pleasures, you don't need extra hands to help out around the house and kids are bloody expensive.

All that together makes richer countries naturally stop having kids and their replacement rate declines below replacement levels.

Get the world richer, they have less kids.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-01 13:19|| 2021-07-01 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 The commandment to 'honor thy father and mother' was to insure they were taken care of in later life. Since they've moved that to the state, many in the 1st world don't believe in having kids around to do that. Given that the evil vile patriarchy spent a lot of effort in the early 20th century to reduce child mortality rates and fatal complications of birthing, the need to have many was also impacted.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-01 13:42|| 2021-07-01 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember thinking at the time I was living in insane times, with the Club of Rome and all. How quaint.

Posted by Cesare 2021-07-01 14:27|| 2021-07-01 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 And yet, the pendulum is swinging back in some circles. In addition to the Jews and Christians of Israel, in upper middle class America Ivanka Trump with her three children is perfectly on trend, whether or not the wife is working. Both of Mr. Wife’s nieces went beyond two: the dentist has four and the nurse practitioner has three. One of my fosterlings has four; she may not be done yet, though she and her husband count as lower middle rather than upper middle class.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-01 14:57|| 2021-07-01 14:57|| Front Page Top

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