I’d really like to think that the “raise the colors” protests in Britain – which do seem to be spreading to other Western nations – are meaningful. I really do want the West to survive…that the people of these nations will secure their nations for their children. But that is the problem: they aren’t having children.
I saw a video out of Denmark where a migrant was dismissing the complaints of a Dane by pointing out the migrants were having five children and the Danes one or two – with only five million Danes, it won’t take long to change the demographics…or, as the migrant put it, exterminate the Danes. The future always belongs to whoever shows up. And the Europeans are not having kids.
Right now, the global total fertility rate is 2.3 – which is slightly above replacement level. The highest fertility is in Niger which has just about 6.5 children per woman (depending on who you ask – others say it is Chad at 5.94 per woman)…but this represents a decline from the peak at 7.93 in 1985. All around the world, fertility rates are dropping…birth control and abortion are the tools but the real mechanism is anti-natal propaganda. You go to the most backwards Third World country and, rely on it, there is the Western propaganda telling women that their best hope is to not have children. The official word is that human population will continue to grow until 2100 but I believe this is wishcasting…someone basically inflating the growth to justify continued population control measures. Personally, I agree with those who figure we’ll peak in 2050 and then start to decline…and it will be rapid. By 2050 we Boomers (I’m very late Boomer) will all be dead or just about out the door…and the succeeding generations are all smaller and having progressively fewer. Life extending medicine will be there but will only make sure there are more geezers to take care of.
What of the West? A takeover by the migrants…and then they die off as well; because even the migrants are having ever fewer children…and the source of migrants is also drying up: the major migrant nations are also suffering rapidly collapsing birth rates. The human race reached a peak of development and then decided to die. Everyone wants their time on Earth to be as hassle-free as possible…and therein lies the real reason for the collapse: the destruction of religious belief.
It is ubiquitous. Every people of all backgrounds have all collectively lost the beliefs which made their civilization. You think Islam is on the march? The fertility rate in Iran is 1.67. Turkey 1.62. Indonesia – with the world’s largest Muslim population – barely clings to 2.1…and that’ll flop to below replacement rate next year if not this. People who stop believing in God do not have children – why should they? What is the future? A cold grave! So, might as well make sure you enjoy your time here as much as possible…and three kids will definitely cramp your style. Bottom line here, if the Brits raise the colors and actually kicked every migrant out of Britain…then in 100 years we’ll have a nearly empty Britain. Just the ruins of cities and monuments to people who stopped believing. What are the Brits saving it for? Everyone has eight great-grandparents but the eight great-grandparents only had six children. Who had four. Japan’s population declined by more than 900,000 in 2024.
I’ve pointed out before that some people are having children – some very orthodox Jews and Christians who genuinely believe (my guess is only about a quarter of Christians actually believe it – that is, to the point where the message of Christ plays a role in their lives). These descendants of these people will be there in the future…but the trouble with population decline is that once is kicks into high gear, it is fundamentally not reversible in the short term. If the Japanese suddenly decided to have two children per woman (this means every child-bearing woman in Japan actually gives birth to two children) the decline in Japan’s population would still continue for decades…and the Japanese, in spite of government efforts to encourage fertility, are not at this moment even working towards two per woman.
As I said, I’d like the West to survive…and, in a sense, it will: those devout Christians who continue to have children are carrying into the future the fundamental basics of Western Civilization, which are Christian. But the national structures that we are used to – including some of the peoples – are going to disappear. The people who live in and sustain them are dying out. Fortunately, almost all of this takes place after I’m dead or so old I don’t care. But a massive crisis is coming and even those addressing it – like Elon Musk – aren’t seeing that the solution is to start going back to Church and really believing it. It is the only way…only those who believe in something beyond themselves will invest the effort into children.
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I think on the whole the human race will do just fine with a smaller population, but a shrinking population will make it harder to hang onto a national identity. Middle Eastern migrants might out-populate the West but unless there is a drastic change they will just keep getting deeper and deeper into the social and political mess they have always created and will not benefit much by outnumbering the productive.
A few years ago I read that Central and South America might be the salvation of Western civilization due to higher birth rates and continued devotion to Christianity.