25 Replies to “North America Has A Population Problem”

  1. My wife has 3 brothers in their 30s. 2 are married, none of the 3 have any plans to have kids. Their entire lives focus on video games and “stuff”, Earthly things that are sure to bring happiness…

    Of course things never do for long, the high is temporary usually followed by disappointment. My kids though bring joy every day… ok, well most days.

    1. I laughed at your last line (having raised 3 children myself) … but it also reminded me of another aspect of Victor Davis’s last line about North American’s becoming self-obsessed … that everything in life should make us happy … everything should bring us joy. All through the 80’s and 90’s I recall hearing demands for being “happy” with life. Yes, I blame my self-obsessed Boomer Generation. We have grown up in the lap of luxury (as compared to any other generation in the history of the world) and have grown to believe we “deserve happiness” … 24/7/365. Even the most wildly popular songs told us to … “Don’t Worry, be Happy”.

      Like finding true love, finding true happiness is elusive and cannot be simply demanded. We believe “things” will make us happy or “working on ourselves” will make us happy … now abbreviated to “self care” (ugggh). I would argue that the BEST way to find “happiness” is to find “contentment” … to learn how to be content with what you have. And … to actually “achieve” things (no, “participant” trophy’s don’t bring happiness). Yes, raising children is life’s most satisfying achievement … esp. when your kids turn out into productive “happy” adults (see, even I fell into the trap).

      But most importantly … it is to recognize that sometimes life can be; hard, inconvenient, frustrating, annoying and generally unpleasant. Yin and Yang. Good and Bad. Happiness is not a continuum it is a punctuation. We should all learn to be “happy” with all that we encounter … good and bad. And judging by your tone, C.Jack … you’ve got this figured out … you’re a truly happy person … and your children are your shining crown of glory

  2. Mark Stynes book, “America Alone” was about demographics. When he wrote about the numbers,America had a barely sustainable birth rate at slightly more than two,liberal Canada was way off, but muslim countries were like 6 children per family… We are doomed by our own hands…As an aside, it looks like BoJo has gone.. Under the bus by a non Brit bunch.. Does anyone think PMPoopei could suffer the same fate?..And Holland is getting it’s just deserts.

      1. See … even YOU … spawn of the Lord of EVIL … can make me laugh. But then again, I am a Christian who can laugh at masturbation … and not hide from the act as though it will render our entire civilization – blind! Hahaha ha ha ha … I amuse myself. Wait! No. Not like THAT! I’m a Christian! I’ve never … ahem … self-pleasured!

  3. No more distant horizons to pursue, no more foreign frontiers to breach – and no-one capable/interested anyway……..to paraphrase Pogo, “We have met the Eloi and they are us”.

  4. On the other hand, while I was at Armpit College, I had students that made me wish that their parents had practiced birth control.

      1. Some of the characters in that movie would have made those students look like geniuses.

        Much of my grief with them came from poor self-discipline and a lack of a work ethic. (Yeah, kid, you have to earn your rewards.) Still, I was expected to pass them…..

  5. Demographics is a 30 year problem that will start in earnest in 2025.

  6. Weird I can’t access that site..
    However the meme of vanishing white race,often comes into discussion when demographics are discussed.
    Not as big a concern as some are imaging,not from my POV.
    For we,whitey, will marry into any race with out too much hesitation.

    Mixed racial marriages abound.
    Pretty strange behaviour for a people who are constantly labelled racist.

    So the meme of “Disappearance” is just another outburst of Liberal Racial Hatred,projected onto conservatives.
    They hate ,fear and despise the “Colored man”,we accept people as people and welcome the decent ones into our lives..
    So much of this discussion is BS,being stirred by the race baiters.

    The reduced rate of child production,comes during a period of longer life expectancy and higher costs of raising said children..
    Lower urgency and higher deterrents..
    Works real good..
    Funny those loudest for population control ,respond by importing more people when we reduce our own levels..Could they be liars?

  7. The signs are everywhere. On vacation recently, restaurants had sections closed off for the summer as they could not find staff. In a fast food restaurant yesterday the kids play area was empty (granted it was a school day) but another area was packed with jabbering retirees. I know so many women who are “child-free”. Every woman has the right to not have children, and some should not have any, but I think herd mentality has driven a majority of women to this choice, or for some it is necessity due to economics. When the majority makes that choice, that is when we have a problem, as America Alone pointed out.

  8. How many thousands more people are being killed in Ukraine while Russia’s own population as Steyn writes is rapidly declining? Favourite boy’s name in the UK is Mohammed, enough said.

  9. When leftards flood our countries with ‘government-approved illegal immigrants’, they are also furthering the ‘stealing’ of native lands.

    Must be nice to have near-unlimited power and thus the freedom to be massive hypocrites.

  10. The following is slightly tangential, but still related. “Do you want kids?” is the wrong question to be asking people. The better question is “How old do you want to be when you have grandkids?”. Framing it this way changes everything. To get grandkids, you must not only have kids of your own, but raise them with desire to have kids of their own too. This necessitates longer term thinking, planning and prioritizing–all of which are necessary for a civilization to continue.

  11. He thinks the problem is unmotivated men.

    The real problem is over credentialed women that end up in productivity destroying make work jobs like sensitivity readers. Of course, they want a credentialed man.

    The problem is a man can skip college and land a productive job on a career path that will place him well above her economically, but doesn’t confer the right status.

    1. My educational credentials have been one reason why there’s never been a Mrs. BADR. Many women were put off by them (one even said that I was “too smart” for her).

      As for the ones what did find my degrees to their liking, well, the less said the better.

  12. None of this is new, and it’s all been evident since the 19th century. The birthrates in all OECD nations has been falling since about 1850. The French government was complaining about the growing lack of young men eligible for the military draft long before WW1. Fact is, birthrates have been falling among all modern industrial nations for decades. Most acute is Japan with a birthrate of just 1.2. That means Japan’s population declines by 1/3rd every generation.

    And no, social memes have nothing to do with the cause. WHO has been expecting that world population will achieve a maximum population size of just over 9 billion before the end of this century and decline thereafter.

    1. cgh
      The well off people do not want to have kids interrupt their life style. And the need for kids to help on the farm/family enterprise has declined, so kids are no longer a benefit to the elder generation . Which is a large part of the reason for birth decline. And you are right, it has been happening for a long time now. It used to be that some predicted that the population would level out and then decline at about 12 billion.

  13. Well, they hurled the worst fear that’s ever been hurled, the fear to bring babies into this world, as the poet put it, and it’s clearly taking a while to get over.

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