On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net>wrote:
> Headed toward extinction?
>
> World depopulation - rather than overpopulation - is the troublesome trend
> that should concern the entire planet.
>
> By Phillip Longman
> USA Today
> March 24, 2009
>
> World population will hit 7 billion by 2012, according to a recent United
> Nations report. Given that we just hit the 6 billion mark in October 1999,
> it is easy to conclude that there are just too many people in the world.
> How
> are we ever going to overcome global warming, feed the masses, get that
> beachfront property, let alone find parking, if the population keeps
> jumping
> by nearly one billion per decade?
>
> The good news is that's not going to happen again. If you need another
> megatrend to worry about, fixate instead on the growing prospects for world
> depopulation and what it means for you and your children (assuming you have
> any).
>
> Yes, human population is still growing in some places dramatically so. But
> at the same time, a strange new phenomenon is spreading around the globe,
> one whose very existence contradicts the deepest foundations of our modern
> mind-set.
>
> Darwinism presupposes, and modern biology teaches, that all organisms breed
> to the limit of their available resources. Yet starting in the world's
> richest, best-fed nations during the 1970s,and now spreading throughout the
> developing world, we find birthrates falling below the levels needed to
> avoid long-term, and in many instances, short-term, population loss. The
> phenomenon has spread beyond Europe and Asia to Latin America.
>
> ...SNIP...