The Post-Partisan Emporium

  An Unfamiliar World John Michael Greer Last month’s post  on the future of warfare in the deindustrial era mentioned in passing one of the most significant factors changing the world we know to one that most of us have never even imagined. That factor is demographics: in particular, the immense shift now under way from growth to contraction in human numbers worldwide.  Nearly everyone alive today grew up hearing about the population boom; it requires a major shift in mental gears to adjust to the imminence of the population bust. A twentieth century problem. It fascinates me that so few people have grasped that this is happening, and even fewer have any sense of what it implies.  I still field comments tolerably often from readers who are convinced that overpopulation is the biggest threat our species faces. (Admittedly most of those readers belong to my generation, and we grew up in a media culture saturated with such ideas.)  That human population is near a peak and will be declini

Depopulation of Taiwan Birth Rate Dropped by 23% in ONE YEAR -- And it is NOT Covid Igor Chudov Jun 26 This is a continuation of my post from yesterday about a massive 13% decline in births in Germany. Such a decline is a nine-sigma event , meaning that it is so unlikely to occur by chance, that it would naturally happen as rarely as an asteroid striking the Earth. Igor’s Newsletter Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany Germany is experiencing a strange decline in births in the first quarter of 2022, totally inconsistent with their experience in recent years. Strange, right? Fortunately, the vaccine-crazy German government already has the answer: it says people had so many children already, that they no longer want any… Read more a day ago · 448 likes · 335 comments · Igor Chudov My article explored several more locales (UK, North Dakota, and Switzerland). But no other place stands out as much as Taiwan does . 23% Drop in Birth Rate in Taiwan According to a Taiwan government report

Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany Must be the weather Igor Chudov Jun 25 Germany is experiencing a strange decline in births in the first quarter of 2022, totally inconsistent with their experience in recent years. Strange, right? Fortunately, the vaccine-crazy German government already has the answer: it says people had so many children already, that they no longer want any . Makes sense, right? Just how stupid does one have to be to believe any of this? Strangely enough, the German government did not yet blame global warming. Babies born in Q1 2022, were conceived in Q2 or 2021. Here’s a chart for BELGIUM (not Germany) from Our World in Data. (Sorry, Germany is not in that data set). The arrow show vaccination of 18-24 and 25-49 year olds. 18-49 year olds were substantially vaccinated in Q2 (up to 30%) and then continued to be rapidly vaccinated in Q3. So the German govt is a bit liberal with the truth here. North Dakota — Same Stuff, Different Place Our reader Biswrest pointed