| Adapted for the Internet from: 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 behind background extinctions |
- Module main page: We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
This page: The mechanism behind background extinctions
Pages in this module:
- 1. The three population curves
2. All species eventually conquer the invisible bugs that keep their numbers back
3. Not education, but urbanization causes infertility
4. Urban women have no freedom to choose whether to have a baby
5. An urban woman doesn't have the privilege or need to have a family
6. Density is what overturns a pyramid
7. Urbanization was inevitable
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