The imagined population bomb of the past quarter-century explodes, peopling the planet with far more mouths than it can feed and increasing carbon footprints until they plaster every available surface, the resulting global warming raising sea levels, burning up crops, etc.
That’s the Green fantasy, which pols like because it allows them to tax and spend and hire more cronies for enforcement of their new government rules that supposedly will be our salvation. (Yeah, like sugar-filled, fat-free food.)
Spengler (David P. Goldman) has crunched the numbers and gathered the studies and found that, surprise, surprise, the truth is the opposite of the Green version: the real population bomb is going to implode and take more than a few countries (Germany, Japan, France, Greece, Turkey, Iran) with it into extinction, and all within the lifetimes of our children. (Those of us who have children.)
“Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room…the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations…The world faces a danger more terrible than the worst Green imaginings…For the first time in history, the birth rate of the whole developed world is well below replacement, and a significant part of it has passed the demographic point of no return.”
Congratulate yourselves, all you people who prefer dogs and cats to children. So far, the USA and Israel are likely to survive this one, much to the chagrin of their bitter enemies. Funny how truth is always more interesting than fantasy. You can pick up a copy of Goldman’s new book on this subject, How Civilizations Die: And Why Islam is Dying Too, here.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
What does he say re Chinese, Indians, etc?
Since Goldman ties fecundity to religious faith, he finds the Chinese and Indians breeding apace, in part because of their large and growing number of Christians (mainly American-style evangelical protestants). He says the Chinese dictators actually prefer Christianity to the traditional religions.
As for why the Muslims aren’t producing children, he says it’s because Islam can’t deal with Western culture, confrontation with which education inevitably brings. In Iran, in particular, there’s also little female faith in the future and, so far, ready availability of contraceptives.