Spengler’s book on the coming world wide population implosion is scary enough: the death of Europe and China and their languages and, surprisingly, the death of Islam as well, as Muslim women stop having more than one or two children.
It is encouraging that he contends that we, here in the land of the fee, are right at replacement (2.1 children) and therefore have nothing to worry about. Ahem. Turns out, according to this fellow, we haven’t been at replacement for two generations, we have adopted the Chinese one-child policy by choice and we are in the same slow boat to China as Europe.
“If you’re under 40, fertility declines will dictate how you navigate old age. If you’re under 10, fertility declines will influence your entire adult life. If we don’t reverse this trend, economic systems will suffer, international affairs will be reordered, and innovation will slow in every sector—except, of course, for healthcare.”
And last year was the worst yet: “In the last year the number of ‘first’ births dropped to the lowest level ever recorded in America.”
The educated like to claim that, no fear, the Mexicans and other Central and South Americans will just replace the folks of European ancestry here. In fact, their women are contracting the same “disease” white American women have: more choices, more money, fewer children.
It’s tempting to blame the Democrats and their constant waving of the Planned Parenthood Association’s abortion banner. But most of the babies PPA kills are black. The party of the KKK is making its pointy-hat ancestors very proud. Our overall demographic bust, however, is more complicated than abortion, and far less likely to be reversed.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 