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Why God Doesn't Exist

    Summary

    Throughout history, disease has been the great delimiter of human population. Once we discovered our
    invisible enemies under the scope, we began to slaughter the poor fellas en masse, and this enabled us
    to live longer. Our population exploded exponentially, but only until recently. Suddenly, we stopped
    having babies.

    The worldly wisdom is that the contemporary delimiter of population is the education of women and that
    it is a positive development for our species. The demographers would like you to think that we are not
    having babies primarily because women are not as stupid as their grandmothers.

    Actually, the education of women has little to do with why population is coming to a standstill. The
    reason we are not having babies is for the same reason cows, bacteria, and dune plants stop having
    babies. Man has entered a regime of density-dependent birth rates. We will expand no more. We are
    scheduled to attain ZPG soon.

    The most formidable enemies of mankind today are not climate change, nuclear weapons, or diseases.
    We can perhaps do something about these agents if we put our minds to it. We cannot do anything
    about urbanization. It is density-dependent birth rates which bring Man's frantic demographic
    expansion to an end. Our global population pyramid overturns, and we complete the last stretch of the
    sigmoidal demographic curve. Of the three possible population trends that await us, Man will follow the
    route that Neanderthal and all other now defunct species followed. We will follow the one that leads to
    extinction. That's the fate dear Mother Nature planned for us.
The mechanism
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