do not think its diatribe makes one think a bit about the big picture:
"The Death of the West” quotes Jacqueline Kasun of California’s Humboldt University as noting:
"A couple still has parents and grandparents to support, directly or through their taxes. Since they’ve got fewer or no siblings to share that burden, having children seems even more unaffordable. So how do you dig your way out of a hole like a shrinking population?”
Excellent question, says Buchanan, "and if Europe does not find the answer soon, Europe dies.” Americans in NATO, he adds, "will soon be defending a vast Leisure World.”
The author lays part of the blame on European socialism.
Quoting Dr. John Wallace of Johns Hopkins University: "If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age.”
Wallace completes the circle of consequences: "If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. And if you can also have sex and not babies – and this seems to be true now of Catholic Italy as it is of secular Britain – why marry?”
Socialists Make Families, and Europe, Obsolete
Thus Buchanan notes: "By freeing husbands, wives and children of family responsibilities, European socialists have eliminated the need for families. Consequently, families have begun to disappear. When they are gone, Europe goes with them.”
And while this trend continues, the Third World adds 100 million people – the equivalent of one new Mexico every 15 months.
Here are some of the highlighted facts and figures:
By 2050, "23 million Germans will have disappeared” from today’s 82 million to 59 million.
Halfway through the 21st century, according to University of Rome demographer Antonio Colini, Italy, which is already dependent on immigrants to bear the load of its deeply indebted pension system, "will no longer be Italian.” Fifty-two percent of Italian women between 16 and 24 planned to have no children.
Russia’s 147 million people will fall to 114 by 2050, with a population loss of 22 million in just 15 years, warns President Vladimir Putin. That is greater than all the Soviet Union’s losses in the Hitler-Stalin war, Buchanan observes. Muslims, China to Carve Russia?
It is calculated that Russia, already in a terminal population crisis, will, by 2050, be driven out of Central Asia by Islamic invaders and lose huge slices of its Far East to China, 15 times as populous. That would push Russia back over the Urals to its European borders and fulfill Putin’s warning of "a threat to the survival of the nation.”
Demographers have calculated that by the end of this century, the British people will be a minority in their homeland. With fertility rates down in England and Wales and ethnic minorities constituting 40 percent of London’s population, U.K. whites will soon be in the minority.
The trend is seen in Japan, the first Asian nation to enter the modern era. Of the 190 nations on earth, Japan is the oldest, with a median age of 41. Politicians there have begged women to have babies.
As for the United States, only once before had the birthrate fallen below population replacement. That was during the Great Depression, when a fourth of America’s breadwinners were out of work.
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