The New Population Bomb

[Monte_RCMS]

AND … Angela Merkel is in Washington today!

Angela Merkel … from East Germany … thinks Muslims want to assimilate.

She thinks young Muslim men want to be Germans.

excerpt:

**That is probably why Angela Merkel, knowing that Germany faces one of the steepest population declines in the medium term, with a projected loss of 12 million in the coming half century, felt she could admit a million refugees in a single year. Besides, there can be economic advantages to doing it this way. Bringing in a fully trained Syrian doctor to work in your hospital saves a lot of investment in secondary education and medical school.

But things have not worked out well during the migration crisis during the past two or three years in terms of solving the demographic problem. Germany and the Scandinavian countries fear that their gender balance is being skewed because too high a proportion of recent migrants are young males. The challenge of integrating so many refugees from an Islamic background has proved much harder than governments thought, **

The new population bomb … as Christendom shrinks to zero.

catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/03/16/the-new-population-bomb/

excerpt:

Among the participants was the notorious population control enthusiast Paul Ehrlich, who had predicted in 1968 that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s and that England might well not make it to the millennium. Ehrlich has not been much chastened by the failure of his prophecies. Nor is he a friend of the Catholic Church. In a book published as recently as 2014, he describes “the Pope [he may have been referring to Benedict XVI] and many of the bishops” as “one of the truly evil, regressive forces on the planet”. Ehrlich is also well known for his support over the years for mass sterilisation, contraception and abortion.

 

[steve93]

AND … Angela Merkel is in Washington today!

Angela Merkel … from East Germany … thinks Muslims want to assimilate.

She thinks young Muslim men want to be Germans.

excerpt:

**That is probably why Angela Merkel, knowing that Germany faces one of the steepest population declines in the medium term, with a projected loss of 12 million in the coming half century, felt she could admit a million refugees in a single year. Besides, there can be economic advantages to doing it this way. Bringing in a fully trained Syrian doctor to work in your hospital saves a lot of investment in secondary education and medical school.

But things have not worked out well during the migration crisis during the past two or three years in terms of solving the demographic problem. Germany and the Scandinavian countries fear that their gender balance is being skewed because too high a proportion of recent migrants are young males. The challenge of integrating so many refugees from an Islamic background has proved much harder than governments thought, **

The new population bomb … as Christendom shrinks to zero.

catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/03/16/the-new-population-bomb/

excerpt:

Among the participants was the notorious population control enthusiast Paul Ehrlich, who had predicted in 1968 that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s and that England might well not make it to the millennium. Ehrlich has not been much chastened by the failure of his prophecies. Nor is he a friend of the Catholic Church. In a book published as recently as 2014, he describes “the Pope [he may have been referring to Benedict XVI] and many of the bishops” as “one of the truly evil, regressive forces on the planet”. Ehrlich is also well known for his support over the years for mass sterilisation, contraception and abortion.

Has anyone read Martin Luther’s book on war with the turks? Some of the things he says will seem uncanny now.

 

[Cathoholic]

Angela Merkel … from East Germany … thinks Muslims want to assimilate.

Monte RCMS. I wouldn’t say Merkel is delusional, but I would say her views are quite skewed based on the fact she is going to NEED to push for MUCH MORE filling of immigration reward$ of importing young working aged men.

Merkel and other Globalists can sell it to the Germans (and others) as “philanthropy” (when it is really their immigrants “philanthropy” to the Germans - Which will lead to anger and frustration of the immigrant who was taken advantage of).

I have said why this is the case elswewhere . . . and I will repeat some of the WHY here too.

This is in some part, our own fault in “the West” (Europe and the USA)

Taxpayer void due to years of . . .

• Contraception
• Abortion
• Population-Control Social Policies including sex ed to our youngsters.

Now we need to prop up the retirement ponzi-schemes that we in the West, have set up.

Wholesale “immigration” of predominately YOUNG MALES from all over the Mideast and Africa is not merely about “compassion” as Globalist leaders have been trying to hard-sell the German people the “immigrant” importation schemes on.

(Why not some “compassion” to bring in the elderly “immigrants”, and the sick “immigrants” and the disabled “immigrants”, etc.? Why not? Don’t THESE non-potential-tax paying people want a “fresh” start too? Are they not “dreamers” too? What about a little “compassion” here?

Oh yes, there will be SOME disabled relatives of these young-social-security-paying “immigrants”.)

We NEED “immigrant$$” (and lots of them) to foot the proverbial social security and other entitlement bills for US—at least until it is some other politicians’ problem.

We need them to fill our failing public schools too, lest schools close and union dollars dry up.

Colleges are not exempt to the population vacuum. Collegiate learning standards will fall because of multicultural learning environments being foisted upon otherwise formerly pretty stable college campuses.

The West’s destabilization of the Mideast or the so-called, “Arab Spring” helped speed the whole situation along too.

(Hey! We needed immigrants didn’t we? Lots of em.
Let’s get some wars going over there and give ourselves some “Peace Prizes” for conscience salve).

Those wars will have a nice side effect of ballooning the military industrial complex (tech job$ and profit$$). We’ll get some immigrants right away then due to the social discord we helped create.

Young tax paying age “immigrants”. Lots of em. Workable.

Put them in Government controllable housing projects by bus lines and trains and we can even allocate tax dollars for their transportation. We’ll sell it as a “green line” or some such. Save the planet and all of that.

We need MORE Government run housing. Government run public low income multifamily dwelling housing. Lots more. Deemphasize home ownership, individual car ownership, independance, and “The American Dream” for these people.

Keep em dependent upon Government programs. Just look at all the “good” that did with American Indians.

We need LOTS of BIG Government programs. 20 TRILLION in debt? No problem. We need dependancy programs because they are “compassionate” (and enriching to the bureaucracies they foster).

No feeding the bears by the park visitors! You will make them “dependent”! That’s NOT compassionate!

No destroying Eagle eggs either. That’s a felony. Abortions of baby humans? Sure. OK. Government funded too but we won’t call it that. Money is fungible.

Europe will have an even higher societal price to pay than America.

It’s going to get worse, before it gets a whole lot worse.

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Germany Alone (not even the rest of Europe but Germany ALONE) NEEDS about a HALF A MILLION “Immigrants” PER YEAR (until 2050!!) Just To Tread Water

**From Deutsche Welle **(with some minor formatting changes) . . . .

Germany needs more immigrants, study says

A study has shown that Germany needs more immigrants to compensate for the gap left by retiring baby boomers.

Non-EU countries could become an important source of qualified labor as the EU population shrinks.

Over the long term, Germany will need to attract an average of 533,000 immigrants per year above the number of those that emigrate from the country, according to a study released on Friday by the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Without immigrants, the number of people of working age will sink from around 45 million at present to fewer than 29 million by 2050, the study found.

The study said half of the professionally qualified working force - people born during the “baby boom” in the 1950s and 60s - would retire by the year 2030, leaving a gap that could only be filled with workers from abroad.

EU population decline

. . . Migration researchers predict that Germany will need an average of up to 490,000 non-EU immigrants per year up until 2050.

dw.com/en/germany-needs-m…ays/a-18344745

This toying with the culture will have some painful ramifications.

Especially when these guys want to take four wives (like they can back home).

Germany. Your daughters will be involved in that “empowering” eqation.

Swedish feminist women (who gave us some of these social structures) have been seeing a lot of “empowerment” lately too. Groping, rape, in before dark, no-go-zones, beatings. “Empowerment” for sure.

As I said, it will get worse, before it gets a whole lot worse.

But the workers and school unions will be happy . . . .At least for awhile.

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Or. We could have just followed Humanae Vitae.

 

[edwest2]

“Or. We could have just followed Humanae Vitae.”

1968 was the turning point for the West, and for social anarchists. Like the old Opium trade, which led to two wars, porn became the opiate of the masses, and the contraception mentality was sold as gospel by young men who came into our neighborhoods, preaching their gospel. I was there to hear: “You know you want to live with and have sex with your girlfriend.” and using illegal drugs was cool. Christianity is useless, fill that void with Eastern mysticism. We’ll flood college towns with bookstores selling a ton of books about it. We’ll print underground newspapers preaching non-conformity, corporations are evil and “do your own thing.” Mom and dad could have it their way but we will do what we want and YOU - meaning all you conformist squares - better quit bothering us. Call them Hippies, Anarchists and Radicals - they decided to create a great big “lasting to this day” series of social experiments. And besides, the cost in lives didn’t matter. And your money was funding all this anyway. And there’s no such thing as too much money for the wealthy elite.

Corruption is fun. Mundane normal living? Not so much.

Ed

 

[JimG]

Excerpts from the article:

“But the presence of an advocate for abortion in the precincts of the Vatican was not the only striking incongruity. Anxiety about population growth could not have been discussed in a more unsuitable venue. Just across the invisible line, in Italy, it is not overpopulation, but a shrinking population that is causing acute concern.”

. . .

After receiving the Templeton Prize last year, Lord Sacks gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph that was reported in apocalyptic terms. Under the headline “Falling birth rates could spell the end of the West”, the paper said that the former Chief Rabbi had warned readers that “Western civilisation is on the brink of collapse … because the modern generation doesn’t want the responsibility of bringing up children.”

“Fertility Day” flops in Italy, and elsewhere.

 

[edwest2]

There is no bomb. The Fertility Rate appears to be falling globally. According to The World Bank:

data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

The CIA presents the picture in a different way.

cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html

Ed

 

[ProdglArchitect]

We need MORE Government run housing. Government run public low income multifamily dwelling housing. Lots more. Deemphasize home ownership, individual car ownership, independance, and “The American Dream” for these people.

I assume, based on the rest of the post, that this is being facetious, but just in case it’s not.

We’ve tried that. They’re called The Projects, and wherever they get built they become probably the most dangerous place in the city; the type of place where cops don’t go…

 

[Monte_RCMS]

Has anyone read Martin Luther’s book on war with the turks? Some of the things he says will seem uncanny now.

Thomas Jefferson went through the same exercise prior to going to war against the Barbary Pirates in Libya & Tunisia. 1803-ish. " … to the halls of Tripoli … " actually means something.

President Jefferson also published his own version of the Koran, which you can buy from Amazon.

 

[JimG]

It seems that Europe has the choice to become Islamic or to face a demographic depopulation spiral. The U.S. will follow.

 

[Cathoholic]

I assume, based on the rest of the post, that this is being facetious . . .

Yes ProdglArchitect.

My post was just a lament because we in the “West” (by “West” I mean Europe, the USA, Canada, and other countries) did not heed Humanae Vitae.

And now society is awakening to some of the fallout from it all.

I know what you are alluding to. You are talking about all of the proverbial Cabrini Greens in the country. I get it.

We’ve tried that. They’re called The Projects, and wherever they get built they become probably the most dangerous place in the city; the type of place where cops don’t go…

From Wiki . . . .

At its peak, Cabrini–Green was home to 15,000 people,[2] living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings totaling 3,607 units. Over the years, crime, gang violence and neglect created deplorable living conditions for the residents, and “Cabrini–Green” became synonymous with the problems associated with public housing in the United States. The last of the buildings in Cabrini–Green was demolished in March 2011.[3]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes

 

[edwest2]

It seems that Europe has the choice to become Islamic or to face a demographic depopulation spiral. The U.S. will follow.

I can’t see that as the only, final answer. Russians could move in. After all, during the Cold War, they owned Eastern Europe and East Germany.

Ed

 

[JimG]

I can’t see that as the only, final answer. Russians could move in. After all, during the Cold War, they owned Eastern Europe and East Germany.

Ed

That’s true, and Russia could opt for expansionism. But Russia also has its own low fertility problem to solve. With TFR’s as low as they are, everyone is going to need to rely on immigration from nations with high TFR’s.

 

[edwest2]

That’s true, and Russia could opt for expansionism. But Russia also has its own low fertility problem to solve. With TFR’s as low as they are, everyone is going to need to rely on immigration from nations with high TFR’s.

I think the other - totally unthinkable - option is to tell young people marriage matters, how marriage actually works, that having children is not just a personal good but also a social good, and just having contraceptive sex has the consequences we’re seeing today. That male-female relationships have a structure based on mutual respect and earned trust.

Importing people will not solve the problem.

Ed

 

[randomuser]

I think the other - totally unthinkable - option is to tell young people marriage matters, how marriage actually works, that having children is not just a personal good but also a social good, and just having contraceptive sex has the consequences we’re seeing today. That male-female relationships have a structure based on mutual respect and earned trust.

Importing people will not solve the problem.

Ed

More affordable delivery expenses would also help. It’s inconceivable (no pun intended) that it’s most expensive to have a baby in a country that claims to be “pro-life.” Having children is only a social good if married couples can afford it: simply being married doesn’t make it any more convenient.

 

[Trader]

I think the other - totally unthinkable - option is to tell young people marriage matters, how marriage actually works, that having children is not just a personal good but also a social good, and just having contraceptive sex has the consequences we’re seeing today. That male-female relationships have a structure based on mutual respect and earned trust.

Importing people will not solve the problem.

Ed

In general, you are right. I would just point out that importing people with the values you describe will solve part of the problem. The US benefited greatly from Catholic immigrants in the nineteenth century, and fairly recent Asian immigrants have been very successful in business and with better than average family stability. Those waves of immigrants in the past not only assimilated, but improved their new country. They did not have the choice of living off the labor of others. Despite what some people say today, those immigrants did not succeed because of a welcoming atmosphere, but they succeeded in spite of a less than welcoming atmosphere, and the values they brought with them were responsible for their success.

My parish has a sizable group of Burmese refugees who are doing just fine. They include a lot of young children born and baptized after their arrival here. The Burmese now have their own Knights of Columbus council and one of their young men just started seminary for our diocese.

 

[ATraveller]

Germany and the rest of the West need more doctors. The solution according to the ‘compassionate’ social liberal elite and their infinite wisdom is to deprive other nations, usually developing nations, of doctors. There are reports of schools in the UK where students are barely literate. There are reports of a trend of dumbing down education in North America. In some schools, teachers are inflating grades even though the students didn’t deserve to pass. Education policymakers across the West appear to be more concerned with instilling children with values (particularly the Left’s) and teaching sex to seven year olds instead of helping them gain the foundation to gain and grow skills needed to satisfy a demand for higher skilled labour.
You can replace ‘doctor’ with engineer or another occupation if you like.
The funny thing is, the same social liberal elites push the very things that have brought the West to the brink of destruction on to these developing countries. If they succeed, where will they find the immigrants they need?

More affordable delivery expenses would also help. It’s inconceivable (no pun intended) that it’s most expensive to have a baby in a country that claims to be “pro-life.” Having children is only a social good if married couples can afford it: simply being married doesn’t make it any more convenient.

The low fertility rates aren’t due to material and financial needs. Scandinavian countries have generous benefits, yet they have some of the lowest fertility rates. People’s mindsets need to change. The article notes how these drives by governments across Europe to have more children are failing.

 

[JimG]

I think the other - totally unthinkable - option is to tell young people marriage matters, how marriage actually works, that having children is not just a personal good but also a social good, and just having contraceptive sex has the consequences we’re seeing today. That male-female relationships have a structure based on mutual respect and earned trust.

Importing people will not solve the problem.

Ed

Well, it’s up to the millenials then; but I’ve read some articles recently saying that millenials don’t want kids–or marriage. Maybe they want to be the final generation.

 

[Beautiful]

Darwinism

 

[PseuTonym]

fill that void with Eastern mysticism. We’ll flood college towns with bookstores selling a ton of books about it.

College towns have libraries. Do you really think that people buy books on a given topic because there are a lot of books on the same topic available in bookstores? And do people force themselves to read books that they aren’t interested in, because they made the mistake of buying those books? And, finally, is there some evil calculation that explains the whole scenario, because bookstores spring up only when mysterious donors provide money that is consumed by bookstores? In other words, are we to believe that bookstores aren’t profitable businesses, but are instead a byproduct of secret, expensive projects designed to influence people?

 

[edwest2]

College towns have libraries. Do you really think that people buy books on a given topic because there are a lot of books on the same topic available in bookstores? And do people force themselves to read books that they aren’t interested in, because they made the mistake of buying those books? And, finally, is there some evil calculation that explains the whole scenario, because bookstores spring up only when mysterious donors provide money that is consumed by bookstores? In other words, are we to believe that bookstores aren’t profitable businesses, but are instead a byproduct of secret, expensive projects designed to influence people?

Sure. That is one aspect. But it’s part of a well-known process. You let the public, especially the young, know that something is cool, mind-expanding, full of wisdom, etc., and curiosity does the rest. I was in a few of those bookstores, and I could not believe the volume of books I was looking at. Where did it all come from? With subjects about as esoteric as you could get. These were privately owned bookstores, not regular books bookstores. And I recall a few groups that sprang up offering hidden, always helpful, knowledge. I saw it up close. To fill a void - like telling people to not trust authority, especially the Church, you need a void filler.

I went to my local main library and college library many times looking for other subjects. You would find only a tiny sampling of the books I’m referring to there, and only the most low-grade material. And I didn’t buy a lot of it because I realized it was fiction claiming to be truly true. So no, I never felt forced myself to read something I was not interested in or well-assembled nonsense that tried to convince me I had discovered “new truth.”

Ed