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Andrew Torba (0:02)
This is replacement theory in a nutshell. It is dangerous and a deeply anti American worldview. It is poisoning minds.
Michael Walsh (0:12)
So we hit a major milestone this week. And by we, I mean everyone in the whole world. Congratulations. The global population officially crossed the 8 billion mark. So there are now 8 billion people on the planet. It took humanity until the 1800s to hit 1 billion, but only 200 more years to multiply that number by eight. This, of course, has led to, as you might expect, lots of frantic and feeble hand wringing about the mythical threat of overpopulation, quote, unquote. There are too many people on the planet, they cry. The whole planet is about to tip over on its axis and we'll all slide off like dishes on an overturned table. Infamously, there was once an elected Democrat who expressed a concern not far from that. Slightly less delusional, though still plenty delusional, is the fear that we will run out of resources or habitable land for people to live on. I mean, none of these scenarios are realistic. There is more than enough land, more than enough resources to feed and house numbers even greater than 8 billion. If the land or resources are misallocated or not properly utilized, or if people choose to huddle together in massive, smelly urban bundles. That's a different problem entirely that cannot be blamed on sheer numbers and also cannot be solved by reducing the numbers. In fact, it's not just that overpopulation is a myth, one invented and propagated by nihilists and eugenicists and Bill Gates, but I repeat myself, it's that the actual crisis we face as a globe, as a world, as a planet, the real apocalyptic cataclysm on the horizon, is quite the opposite of overpopulation. Our problem is not that there are too many babies being born, but that there are too few being born. The world's population is getting older. The average age of a human on Earth is a decade older now than it was in even the 1970s. Now sure, that's partly a product of modern medicine, which is good people are living longer. But it's also a product of an aging population that isn't having enough babies. And when the median age gets high enough, society becomes top heavy with more elderly people than there are younger people to care for them. This is a problem that developed countries like Japan are already dealing with. Many others will soon join them. The whole world is trending in that direction. For all the talk about overpopulation, the population is actually projected to start declining by the 2000s as global fertility rates dip below Replacement level. Understand this. Global populations have never declined due to declining fertility. We've never seen a decline in the global population because of fertility or lack thereof. The last decline was during the Black Plague 700 years ago, and that was from because of a pandemic that wiped out a quarter of human life on the planet. A decline due to people simply not having babies is an entirely different matter. And it's never happened before through the whole history of the human race. And it's not a good sign. Older, slower, top heavy populations cannot thrive. And after a while, they cannot survive. They can't sustain themselves. Human civilization is right now essentially giving up on itself, throwing in the towel. And this again is not a positive development in the US we're ahead of the population decline curve. We fell below replacement level fertility a couple of years ago and actually farther ago than that. And we've been notching record low birth rates every year since, or almost. I mean, birth rates hit another record low in 2020, falling 4% below the previous year. However, in 2021, there was a slight uptick of 1%, which is still 3% below 2019. It was the first increase in the birth rate since 2014. That was likely only a function of the fact that the year before that was so low. Overall, the US has been below replacement level, actually, for the most part. And there have been, you know, there are peaks and valleys and everything, but for the most part, it's been below replacement since really the early 1970s. And even with the occasional blip on the radar screen, a spike here and there, we are trending in the wrong direction and fast. Senator Chuck Schumer, of all people, has noticed this problem, and he made note of it yesterday to reporters when he was giving a press conference. Given that Democrats despise the human species and especially those members of the species who are residents of their same country, those are the humans that Democrats hate the most. We don't usually hear them lamenting declining birth rates. In fact, they are engineering the decline. So what has awakened Schumer to this issue? Why does he care about it all of a sudden? Well, that becomes obvious pretty quickly when you hear what he had to say and why here it is now more than ever.
