The Fake Population Crisis
The Epoch Times recently published a scare piece: An Impending Population Crisis? World Fertility Rate Hits 60-Year Low, 19 September, 2025, stating that:
Continued low fertility rates will cause "a gradual implosion of the world’s economy as the population ages and dies," Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, told The Epoch Times...
Macroeconomist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde called low fertility rates "the true economic challenge of our time," in a February report for the American Enterprise Institute...
In July, the U.S. Census Bureau projected that the world’s population will reach 8.1 billion this year. Experts say although the figure has grown from 3 billion in 1960, the number to watch is the pace of population growth...
As population growth declines and population numbers finally stabilize, humanity at last has a fighting chance to balance existence with our supporting ecosystems. Infinite growth on a finite planet, and within the finite boundaries of nations, is impossible.
Population stabilization will occur. The question is whether it will be forced upon us by nature, or whether we accomplish it on our own.
Those who view the world solely as an economic machine - that is, globalists and economists - are markedly disquieted over the imminent end of the Ponzi growth engine. Yet economies exist in service of humanity; humanity does not exist to serve economies.
In developing nations such as Africa, fertility is inordinately high but slowly declining. In Western nations, population growth is driven by mass immigration. Indeed, in America, mass immigration is driving population to double within the lifetimes of children born today.
Economists consider this demographic growth as necessary and highly desirable. Yet do we want to live in an America where every city is twice as big? Do Europeans want to live in nations that are invaded by excess millions from overpopulated developing nations?
Ultimately, water and natural resource exhaustion will lead toward population reduction and then stabilization. China recognized this conundrum decades ago when it instituted a one-child policy.
Fertility in developed nations today is below replacement level, which means that those living in developed nations have voluntarily decided to stabilize population. However, this progress is being thwarted by myopic globalists and economists who fail to acknowledge the impossibility of infinite growth.
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Total fertility rates by nation, derived from chart in the Epoth Times article:
Infinity Is the Wrong Number of Immigrants - Common-sense immigration policy begins with a willingness to look at hard data instead of propaganda from self-interested lobbyists. When you do, the message is clear. By Michael Line, Tablet, 17 September 2025.
Book: Blip: Humanity's 300 year self-terminating experiment with industrialism, by Christopher O Clugston (2019).
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