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From the article: "The great defining event of the twenty-first century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd.
“No fewer than 23 leading nations—including Japan, Spain, South Korea, and Italy—will see their population cut in half by 2100. China’s will drop by a stunning 48 percent, knocking it out of contention as the world’s economic super-power. …The missing population will simply never have been born.”
That the world population will suffer a huge decline seems inevitable, but why will it continue?
Across the world, but especially in the west, marriage is in decline. Pew Research says that by the time today’s young adults in the U.S. are 50, 25% will have been single their entire lives. So, we are seeing fewer marriages, later marriages, and marriages with only one or two children, even in the marriages of multimillionaires, who could easily afford fourteen children.
Then there is the problem of populations having large numbers of children whose mother never married, such as France, where some 60% of newborns are illegitimate. Statistics show these children are at high risk for problems with drugs and alcohol, school failure, aggressive and criminal behavior, inability to form relationships in later adulthood, suicide, emotional problems, and so on.
Are we heading for a train wreck?
“No fewer than 23 leading nations—including Japan, Spain, South Korea, and Italy—will see their population cut in half by 2100. China’s will drop by a stunning 48 percent, knocking it out of contention as the world’s economic super-power. …The missing population will simply never have been born.”
That the world population will suffer a huge decline seems inevitable, but why will it continue?
Across the world, but especially in the west, marriage is in decline. Pew Research says that by the time today’s young adults in the U.S. are 50, 25% will have been single their entire lives. So, we are seeing fewer marriages, later marriages, and marriages with only one or two children, even in the marriages of multimillionaires, who could easily afford fourteen children.
Then there is the problem of populations having large numbers of children whose mother never married, such as France, where some 60% of newborns are illegitimate. Statistics show these children are at high risk for problems with drugs and alcohol, school failure, aggressive and criminal behavior, inability to form relationships in later adulthood, suicide, emotional problems, and so on.
Are we heading for a train wreck?
