October 2, 2008 - The plethora of bank failure crises is dwarfed by the oncoming "under-population” problem. But nobody sees "under-population” coming. Already 59 nations (44% of world population) are experiencing below-replacement birthrates. Just 2.1 births per couple equal exact replacement. Tendencies dictate the world will shortly be under that rate.

Europe’s fertility rate now is 1.3 births. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden says Russia is now facing "demographic stress”. Russia has to look elsewhere for workers. They will lose ¼ of its population in the next 40 years, and one third by 2050. They have used abortion for decades as a method of birth control.

Bill Gertz (Washington Times) admits women average 1.2 abortions per live birth in Russia. In vain, 13% of their live births die by age five. Russia’s birthrate is now 1.17, down from 2.4 in 1990. In a wild effort to stave off a "demographic winter” , Russia is offering a baby bonus of 250,000 rubles (~$9200 for every baby a couple has after the first). Eurostat (European Statistical Office) predicts by 2015, deaths will outnumber the births in the European Union, and the population will begin to decline by 2060.

It is known worldwide that birthrates have declined 50% in the past half-century. Last year, Canadian birthrates hit an all time low of 1.5 children per woman. With their birthrates it is possible that Italy, Spain, Russia, and even France could cease to exist as we know them this century. Fertility rates are in a downward freefall around the globe. Phillip Longman elucidates this succinctly in his recent book: The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity.

World population growth is rapidly decelerating. Items directly responsible include abortion, decreased fertility rates, sterilization, contraception, abortifacient devices, the banning of DDT resulting in millions of deaths from malaria, AIDS, China’s one child policy, and elimination of the "right” to bear children. Since the early 1970’s, the world’s fertility rate—the number of children the average woman will bear in her lifetime—has gone from 6 to 2.9, and is still falling.

Some well-known people involved with population control included Thomas Malthus, Margaret Sanger, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Ehrlich (Population Bomb), and Hugh Moore. Organizations include Planned Parenthood, UNFPA, IPPF, USAID, National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Sea Shepherd Society, and hundreds of local associations.

The history of the population control movement is the world’s biggest violator of human rights. "Human rights are "non-negotiable” [i.e., the right to bear children], or they are not rights at all” (Steven Mosher/Demographic Winter).He says the existing movement has forced Americans to feel an enormous amount of guilt.

The UN Population Division projects that the world fertility rate will drop to 2.05 children per woman by 2050. This simply means human beings will cease to have enough children to reproduce themselves. According to the UNPD’s medium population projection, overall world population will increase from 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050. After that world population will begin to decline. One of their projections shows a decline as early as 2040.

Once decline is achieved, it will begin to accelerate. After that, population free-fall is a distinct possibility. Don Feder (president/ Jews Against anti-Christian Defamation) sums up the crisis as "…a coming catastrophe that’s now well below the screen of our national consciousness, but one which will affect our future far more than the hypothetical crises on which the media is fixated.”

Doing the math of a 6.5 billion world population, giving every person 900 ft2 (small apartment size) could fit the world’s population into the state of Texas. Some Christians, however, ignore the Bible because it might not suit them. Psalms 127:3-5 reiterates how children are a blessing. Children are celebrated in Scripture multiple times. Maybe people have forgotten God saying in Genesis 1:28 "Be fertile and multiply”.

Did God mean we should stop multiplying when we think we have enough people? That we should start to kill to make sure we stay below a limit? That He didn’t know the future, so He didn’t understand that "overpopulation” would be bad for the human race?

One’s estimation of God should be higher than that. We hope most come to the conclusion to which statistics are dictating--preferably, much sooner than later.



Kevin Roeten can be reached at kevin@kevinroeten.us or roetenks@charter.net.

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Comments received: 1 1. Peter Says: October 29, 2008 (Wed) at 03:52:50 AM With the world in a seemingly end of time scenario with the world running out of cheap oil and the possible food crisis that this will bring I keep wondering what Matthew 24 verse 19 where Jesus says "And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days." means. I am worried about the future and not only the banking crisis.