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UN REPORT TO SHOW FERTILITY RATES WORLDWIDE TO DROP TO BELOW REPLACEMENT
NEW YORK, February 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A United Nations report due to be released later this month warns that the world will soon be in a dangerous situation of overall population decline. Far from the population controllers predictions that the world will be completely overpopulated, the UN demographers warn that the decline in fertility rate shows no indication of stopping at 2.1 - the replacement rate.
"All the evidence suggests fertility is falling rapidly in developing countries with no sign it is going to stop at the magical number of two," said Larry Heligman of the UN population division. The UN report warns that the average fertility rate will decline to 1.85 - dangerously lower than the replacement rate - by 2050.
The Sunday Times which provided a sneak preview at the report notes that Thailand's fertility rate went from 5 in the 1970s to just under 2 today. In Iran the rate has gone from 6.5 children in the 1980s to 2.75 today. While the current world average for women bearing children is 2.7, in the West the average is much lower with countries such as Italy at 1.2 children per woman.
Jacqueline Kasun, a researcher who has warned for years about the coming population decline and the erroneous predictions of those espousing overpopulation, warned that that crunch will be felt in attempting to care for the elderly with few earners to support welfare and pension systems.
(with files from The Sunday Times, Feb 2, 2003)
NEW YORK, February 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A United Nations report due to be released later this month warns that the world will soon be in a dangerous situation of overall population decline. Far from the population controllers predictions that the world will be completely overpopulated, the UN demographers warn that the decline in fertility rate shows no indication of stopping at 2.1 - the replacement rate.
"All the evidence suggests fertility is falling rapidly in developing countries with no sign it is going to stop at the magical number of two," said Larry Heligman of the UN population division. The UN report warns that the average fertility rate will decline to 1.85 - dangerously lower than the replacement rate - by 2050.
The Sunday Times which provided a sneak preview at the report notes that Thailand's fertility rate went from 5 in the 1970s to just under 2 today. In Iran the rate has gone from 6.5 children in the 1980s to 2.75 today. While the current world average for women bearing children is 2.7, in the West the average is much lower with countries such as Italy at 1.2 children per woman.
Jacqueline Kasun, a researcher who has warned for years about the coming population decline and the erroneous predictions of those espousing overpopulation, warned that that crunch will be felt in attempting to care for the elderly with few earners to support welfare and pension systems.
(with files from The Sunday Times, Feb 2, 2003)
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Re: Encouraging UN Population Report
Tue, February 10, 2004 - 5:25 PMHah, that kinda reminds me of this theroy I came up with hell of faded once. I was thinking about like gay people and shit and why it seemed there was more presently than in the past (don't know if this is true) but was thinking that it might be like nature's way of dealing with overpopulation. Evolution is all tight. -
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Re: Encouraging UN Population Report
Tue, February 10, 2004 - 6:31 PM
In a way I think you are correct in linking
increased population to increased numbers
and percentages of the population that is
actively gay.
In a large population, at
least in large cities, traditional lifestyles
give way to individualistic ones. People
are freer to be what they want cause
Ma and Pa, Aunt Bessie and so on aren't
so able to keep an eye on them, whereas
in the old days people didn't go to school,
or to work, or even to the grocery store.
They did all that at home on the farm. Imagine the
amount of social control and influence
parents and neighbors would have on you...
But nowdays there's a Kansas kid to corrupt the
youth with links to vhemt.org
and www.churchofeuthanasia.org/
muhuahaha!
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