...of Western Civilization.
A Most Ominous Development....one that amplifies cultural degradation, and may be
more dangerous to the Western Civilization than overpopulation, Islamic savagery, or even biological extinction!!!
Are ya' hooked???
Let's take a look at the factors that might end mankind's dominance....or even existence.
1. Extinction Itself....a biological fact.
"More than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. ... Dinosaurs appeared after one of the biggest mass extinction events on Earth, the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. ... The Permian-Triassic extinction event about 250 million years ...
....the rate of extinction is far from constant. At least a handful of times in the last 500 million years, 50 to more than 90 percent of all species on Earth have disappeared in a geological blink of the eye.
Though these mass extinctions are deadly events, they open up the planet for new life-forms to emerge. Dinosaurs appeared after one of the biggest mass extinction events on Earth, the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. The most studied mass extinction, between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 65 million years ago, killed off the dinosaurs and made room for mammals to rapidly diversify and evolve.
The causes of these mass extinction events are unsolved mysteries, ...
Information and Facts About Mass Extinctions
Nope....not this one.
We've shown that we can sidestep nature, in that we can alter our surroundings to our benefit.
2. How about overpopulation?
Nope.....technology has tossed Malthus to the ash pile: food production more than outpaces population.
And there is plenty of room on the planet.
3. In fact, population itself is self regulating due to certain cultural advances, such as literacy and prosperity......both advancing in the Third World.
(Of course, our school system works in the opposite direction...but that's another story.)
Said advances are blunting the 7th century savagery of Islam.....but:
European apathy is the flip side of Islamic extremism, both losing their connection with the past, and their confidence in the future. Between European resignation with cultural extinction and the Islamist boast “You love life, we love death!’ there may be an accommodation that we in America may not like.
Factors associated with population decline include urbanization, education and literacy, modernization.
After literacy, the next largest indicator of family size is religious practice. The more frequently Muslims attend mosque, the more likely they are to have a big family. A third of the 88% literate Turks never attend mosque, as is true of the 82% literate Iranians; in both countries fertility is below replacement. But only a fifth of Egyptians never visit a mosque, and fertility is up to about three.
a. In nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt, worship is high, literacy low, fertility rates high, poverty high, unemployment high, social instability high.
b. In nations such as Iran, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, there is a high degree of literacy, but face a more devastating degree of social failure in the form of a dearth of children.
See "How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)" by David Goldman
In fact, the fear of a global jihad has mitigated now that Americans have dumped Barack Hussein Obama and his cryto-Islamist ideology, and put a real American in the White House.
But Liberalism's main attraction has left a residue that may well presage the end of Homo sapiens.
How and why is Liberalism a danger?
I'll get to that in a moment....
A Most Ominous Development....one that amplifies cultural degradation, and may be
more dangerous to the Western Civilization than overpopulation, Islamic savagery, or even biological extinction!!!
Are ya' hooked???
Let's take a look at the factors that might end mankind's dominance....or even existence.
1. Extinction Itself....a biological fact.
"More than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. ... Dinosaurs appeared after one of the biggest mass extinction events on Earth, the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. ... The Permian-Triassic extinction event about 250 million years ...
....the rate of extinction is far from constant. At least a handful of times in the last 500 million years, 50 to more than 90 percent of all species on Earth have disappeared in a geological blink of the eye.
Though these mass extinctions are deadly events, they open up the planet for new life-forms to emerge. Dinosaurs appeared after one of the biggest mass extinction events on Earth, the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. The most studied mass extinction, between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 65 million years ago, killed off the dinosaurs and made room for mammals to rapidly diversify and evolve.
The causes of these mass extinction events are unsolved mysteries, ...
Information and Facts About Mass Extinctions
Nope....not this one.
We've shown that we can sidestep nature, in that we can alter our surroundings to our benefit.
2. How about overpopulation?
Nope.....technology has tossed Malthus to the ash pile: food production more than outpaces population.
And there is plenty of room on the planet.
3. In fact, population itself is self regulating due to certain cultural advances, such as literacy and prosperity......both advancing in the Third World.
(Of course, our school system works in the opposite direction...but that's another story.)
Said advances are blunting the 7th century savagery of Islam.....but:
European apathy is the flip side of Islamic extremism, both losing their connection with the past, and their confidence in the future. Between European resignation with cultural extinction and the Islamist boast “You love life, we love death!’ there may be an accommodation that we in America may not like.
Factors associated with population decline include urbanization, education and literacy, modernization.
After literacy, the next largest indicator of family size is religious practice. The more frequently Muslims attend mosque, the more likely they are to have a big family. A third of the 88% literate Turks never attend mosque, as is true of the 82% literate Iranians; in both countries fertility is below replacement. But only a fifth of Egyptians never visit a mosque, and fertility is up to about three.
a. In nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt, worship is high, literacy low, fertility rates high, poverty high, unemployment high, social instability high.
b. In nations such as Iran, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, there is a high degree of literacy, but face a more devastating degree of social failure in the form of a dearth of children.
See "How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)" by David Goldman
In fact, the fear of a global jihad has mitigated now that Americans have dumped Barack Hussein Obama and his cryto-Islamist ideology, and put a real American in the White House.
But Liberalism's main attraction has left a residue that may well presage the end of Homo sapiens.
How and why is Liberalism a danger?
I'll get to that in a moment....
