Going Extinct...the result of population control in Singapore

[Ridgerunner]

They don’t have to worry about anything. Just open the floodgates of immigration to us Filipinos and we’ll take care of their population

A lot of people I knew growing up is already in Singapore living and working there.

Nothing doing! We need the Filipino wave to come to the U.S.!

 

[Bob_Crowley]

Population control happens quite handily in a natural way, by God’s plan, rather than man’s meddling with God’s commandments to “subdue the earth” and “be fruitful and multiply”. If the population becomes so great that more people starve, then that is a tragedy, but Jesus said we would always have the poor with us. As Christians it is not our duty to tell our own culture or others that they shouldn’t have families. As Christians it is our duty to feed the poor, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless. As Americans, it is cultural suicide to foist population control upon ourselves, and genocide to foist it upon others. It isn’t up to us.

Spreading Christianity will do much more good for the world than spreading contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and panic about global warming and climate change. In the end, we are bound to suffer here on Earth. It is our immortal souls that should concern us and spur our action.

So if a famine strikes, and people starve to death by the thousand, that’s God’s method of population control? Give me the pill any day. I also fail to see where the “God of Love” figures in that method.

 

[SuperLuigi]

I think the situation in Israel is complex, because it has such a diverse population.

The total fertility rate, by demographic group is as follows:

un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedFriedlanderpaper.PDF

From those figures, we can see that the secular Jewish population is having children barely at the rate of population replacement. But they currently comprise 2/3 of the population of Israel.

Muslims and Druze (an Arab ethnicity whose faith split from Islam 900 years ago) have a substantially higher birth rate, but are only 1/6 of the population.

Religious and “ultra-Orthodox” Jews comprise 1/7 of the population, but their rate of births are substantially higher than the Muslims or Druze.

So, by birth rate alone, Israel will remain a majority Jewish state well into the future. However, there will need to be adjustments in Israeli society as religious and ultra-orthodox Jews increasingly become a larger segment of the population. Such strains are already evident, but perhaps we should discuss that in a separate thread?

That is an excellent analysis.

 

[Elizium23]

So if a famine strikes, and people starve to death by the thousand, that’s God’s method of population control? Give me the pill any day. I also fail to see where the “God of Love” figures in that method.

[BIBLEDRB]Psalms 90:1-13[/BIBLEDRB]

 

[FrederickOz]

The problem with Singapore is that kids don’t really fit in culturally, economically or physically. The place has been designed to be a bastion of commerce with both adults working and anyone having a big family (3 or more kids) will struggle.