In this speech, Stephen Shaw explains how rapidly declining birth rates are putting many countries in danger of disappearing within a few generations. Reversing the narratives around children and population growth is urgent for the sake of our civilisations.
Ties in with other things I've been reading on the same subject--extended education (next to no jobs for mere high school graduates anymore), and difficulty finding partners makes for people trying to have children in their 30s and 40s and female fertility is just not there.
Yes, there is the corrosive effect of radical feminism but it's NOT universal. There ARE young women out there who want to be mothers and young men who want to be fathers of familites, but they just aren't meeting each other.
IMHO: Need a lot of healthy community and church groups to get young people together to meet each other sooner; need to make it possible to work with just a high school diploma; need to make modest and affordable weddings trendy again.
Not buying the “we need population growth” arguments. We had perfectly functional societies 50 years ago, better quality of life, less crime, less government.
What changed?
Welfare as a lifestyle, immigration, destruction of the traditional family structure, lack of morality and lack of consequences for actions has become a burden on society.
We need less but more of the same people, not diversity.
In this speech, Stephen Shaw explains how rapidly declining birth rates are putting many countries in danger of disappearing within a few generations. Reversing the narratives around children and population growth is urgent for the sake of our civilisations.
Thanks for posting FF, because I'm on the fence about overpopulation. I going to watch this now!
Ties in with other things I've been reading on the same subject--extended education (next to no jobs for mere high school graduates anymore), and difficulty finding partners makes for people trying to have children in their 30s and 40s and female fertility is just not there.
Yes, there is the corrosive effect of radical feminism but it's NOT universal. There ARE young women out there who want to be mothers and young men who want to be fathers of familites, but they just aren't meeting each other.
IMHO: Need a lot of healthy community and church groups to get young people together to meet each other sooner; need to make it possible to work with just a high school diploma; need to make modest and affordable weddings trendy again.
Not buying the “we need population growth” arguments. We had perfectly functional societies 50 years ago, better quality of life, less crime, less government.
What changed?
Welfare as a lifestyle, immigration, destruction of the traditional family structure, lack of morality and lack of consequences for actions has become a burden on society.
We need less but more of the same people, not diversity.