Interesting Times

18 Replies to “Interesting Times”

1. And few of the 0-9 are female

2. Diane Francis, Financial Post · Dec. 8, 2009:
   “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate…Ironically, China, despite its dirty coal plants, is the world’s leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation, thanks to its one-child-only edict…China has proven that birth restriction is smart policy. Its middle class grows, all its citizens have housing, health care, education and food…”

3. And in some provinces of China, because of selective sex abortions, men out number women by as much as 10%, so replacing the population is not going to happen very fast, if at all. 2 children per family is a replacement rate, and given the problem above, does not guarantee an equal distribution between girls and boys.
   And yes, Diane Francis is a perfect example of not seeing to unforeseen consequences to government policies.

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   POINT: Beautiful, beautiful PILF Trudeau…
   “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green.'”
   COUNTERPOINT: Lacklustre, boring Fortune Magazine…
   “Given DECADES of environmental neglect and China’s heavy reliance on coal — which PRODUCES 70% of the country’s energy — it would be difficult to produce a dramatic improvement quickly.”
   Isn’t he dreamy?
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5. Chinese capitalist expansion needs a larger/future customer base.

6. Meanwhile, closer to home….
   In 1960 Canada had a population of only 17,900,000, but there were an incredible number of births: 479,000. In 2014 Canada’s population had doubled to 35,540,000, but births had dropped to 388,000.
   I pointed this out to our kids – to back up the fact that, in addition to paying their per capita portion of $39,000 of Ontario’s combined federal and provincial debt, with each passing year they will be shouldering an ever-increasing of retiring baby-boomers debt.
   Hail Tinkerbell turdo la doo! He’s just going to wave his magic wand and make it all go away.

7. Italy should do the same.

8. Of course, you unbeliever! PM Justin already HAS solved the problem of our low birth rate!
   He is going to bring in 25,000 ME refugees,who will have scads of lovely little Canadian babies,to pay for our infidel pension plans and make us a proud,prosperous Nation just like Syria and Sudan and Bosnia.
   Perhaps China should buy some nice Phillipine, North Korean or Thai women to alleviate the shortage of home grown breeders.
   We don’t want to see the Chinese race disappear any time soon!

9. Liberal Dreamboat Justin can paddle a canoe, that was an important message we had from the LPC prior to the election. Now that reality is about to set in we better all wear life jackets as he attempts to sail SS Canada.
   Something that’s not been clear, are these so-called refugees, many economic refugees and young men, going to become citizens or are they seeking temporary refuge? Of course in Canada with Trudeau’s Charter they will have all the benefits of those who were born here as soon as they land, but will they stay and fight for Canada as our forefathers who built this country did? Of course, that may not be necessary, Trudeau doesn’t believe in fighting evil where it exists. Next up watch for further gutting of the military.

10. The global population issue is not about China. It is about India and Africa (mainly Nigeria, DRC, and Ethiopia).
    Having traveled through China, India and parts of Africa I have noticed a big difference between someone who is poor in China versus someone who is poor in India or Africa.
    By 2050 India will be the most populous country in the world with 1.66 billion people. China will have 1.42 billion.
    There will be twice as many people living in Africa as in Europe and North America combined.
    Asia and Africa will hold over 75% of the world’s population. The current birth rate across much of Africa is 4 children per woman and often as much as 8. In the western world it is under 2.
    The vast majority of the people in the world will not be Muslim, and they won’t be white. White people will represent less than 15% of the world’s population within 35 years.
    Fifty years from now the greatest problem facing formerly wealthy western countries will be the unrelenting migration of extremely poor people who have learned second hand how high our standard of living has been. There will be an evening out of that standard from ours toward theirs because 10.9 billion people cannot live like us, but 10.9 billion can live like them.
    As was told to Mr. Anderson “it is inevitable”. Now back to the regular China-bashing and Muslim-bashing…

11. Don’t you mean China has decided to end it’s extermination of female fetuses campaign?

12. “Fifty years from now the greatest problem facing formerly wealthy western countries will be the unrelenting migration of extremely poor people”
    Um, that’s happening right now. #it’sinallthepapers

13. “There will be an evening out of that standard from ours toward theirs because 10.9 billion people cannot live like us, but 10.9 billion can live like them.”
    Or we can decide not to let them in and shot therm if they try.

14. Funny how a policy of genocide of your own children eventually catches up with you. Who would have thought?

15. I see how the Liberals will solve the funding gap.
    Selling their opponents daughters to the Chinese.
    Remember there is no “Too Low” in the progressives handbook.
    The war on women indeed.
    These hordes of sexually frustrated males, who despise and hate women, make a perfect match with our intellectual superiors.
    It breaks my heart that every canadian girl does not have a snub nose .38 loaded with dum dum rounds.
    Spell check keeps changing that to sum sum rounds …

16. See if it will compromise on rounds of dim sum.

17. Yes, the demographic changes are going to diminish the standing of the Western nations. However, I’ll have to disgree with your Malthusian statment that “10.9 billion people cannot live like us.”
    Is there going to be change? You betcha. Does it necessarily mean a diminuation in the standard of living; in the re-distribution of existing resources amongst the emergent masses?
    That’s NOT a given. That argument is a re-hash of the Marxist/Green philosophy that resources are limited and finite and that economics is a zero-sum game. If that were true we’d still be living in caves and trading rocks.
    European/Western societies succeeded and spread around the globe because they invested more in learning, technology (and warfare) than in large families to overcome high natality and mortality rates. They invented their wealth, and in so doing brought up the standard of living to cushioned height that it is today.
    Science was the answer, and it can still be the answer. There is no need for a future of urban ghettos as far as the horizon and a populace eking out a meagre living from scare resources and opportunities.
    With enough energy, with bio-engineering, with proper ecological management (and here I’m referring to the biological definition, not the political) it IS possible to maintain something like our standard of living.
    Will we acheive it? I’m skeptical: education in Western societies has devolved into base superstition for the masses and little better than medieval scholasticism for the wealthy. There are few remaining citadels of true learning and progress, but the Scientific Age is clearly behind us. Emerging societies (that would be India, Africa, the Middle East) are rushing head-long into the future carrying ancient hatreds and tribal customs with them.
    But these are HUMAN failures and failures of society: not the inevitable end-game of Malthusian population growth. It is still our choice to become wealthier globally or devolve into poverty. It is not “inevitable”. Not unless we believe it to be so.

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    “fredr asks… Does it necessarily mean a diminuation in the standard of living?”
    ooh, ooh, i got this… 25,000 new people who don’t know what toilet paper, dental care or democracy is… i’m gonna go with yes… and, incidentally… eeeeeeeeyuck!!!
    ps… don’t go near anybody’s left hand in the next few decades. trust me.
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