The overpopulation myth in America
A few months ago, I recall seeing on the news a segment on how the U.S. population had hit 300,000,000 for the first time. Some said this was a sign of world populations spinning out of control but recent figures released from the U.S. Census Bureau paint a very different picture. The birth rate in America has fallen below 2 children per couple, which means we are no longer reproducing ourselves. CNN has an interesting article http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/05/metro.population.ap/index.html, noting that urban populations across the country would be sustaining heavy percentage losses if not for the presence of immigrants. The urban population of New York City, for instance, added 1 million immigrants between 2000 and 2006, without whom, the city would have lost 600,000 people simply due to low birth rates. Cities across the country reflect a similar pattern, particularly in large urban centers. The article also states that 36,000,000 people living in America are immigrants, including roughly 12,000,000 illegal immigrants. That’s 12% of our entire population, without whom we’d be down to 264,000,000, not to even mention children of immigrants. That’s also 36 million less people plus their children living in the countries they came from.
This demographic pattern is replicated across the globe as industrialized nations tend to have drastically low birthrates and sustain their populations through immigrants from the third world, and stands as a stark contrast to anything we’ve seen throughout history up until the last 40 to 50 years. In Russia, the decrease in Russian birth rates has been declared by Putin to be the number one problem facing their country. Over half of Russian pregnancies now end in abortion. In South Korea, the underpopulation crisis is so severe that their government is spending $20,000,000,000.00 a year to help combat it by offering incentives that are more pro-family. In Italy and Spain, the population crisis is most pronounced, where the paltry 1.2 children per two adults are among the lowest in the world, and would be even lower if not for their sizable immigrant populations. At their demographic trajectory, 99% of ethnic Spanish and Italians will have disappeared in two centuries, what for lack of a better term is auto-genocide. England, France, Germany, and Canada all face similar demographic shifts. While some of them sustain their populations through immigration, the third world population has been heavily eroded through the corresponding emigration.
