Climate change zealots insist we’re on the brink of destroying the world. But actually, it seems our world is in danger of dying off a different way and the end will be a drawn-out catastrophe. It’s a totally unprecedented self-inflicted problem which has never happened before in human history. According to the Mail, the thing we should be really worried about is Babygeddon:
Last year, the Japanese manufacturer Oji Nepia, which makes everything for the bathroom from toilet rolls to wet wipes, announced it was to cease producing babies’ nappies.
Instead, it would concentrate on adult diapers and incontinence pads for the elderly.
The decision was prompted by Japan’s falling birth rate but, since so many of us never fully grow up, the news provoked sniggers worldwide. Nappies are funny, after all, unless it’s your turn to change a dirty one.
But there’s nothing amusing in the global trends underlying this announcement. Unless a radical demographic change occurs, the world is heading for a crisis, with Britain at the forefront.
Put bluntly, the U.K. and Western Europe are running out of babies, and the pattern is echoed across the planet, from China to South America. By the middle of the century half the population of Italy will be over 50.
For Britain, these trends are predicted to lead to multiple catastrophes for our way of life, first through mass immigration, then the collapse of our health service, the atrophy of education and total wipe-out for our pension system.
The signs are all there in the Far East:
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now aged over 80, for the first time in the nation’s history, and almost 30% is aged 65 and older. Subsidies, better childcare and welfare boosts have failed to work, and the country’s leaders are at a loss. As the country’s then prime minister Fumio Kishida put it in 2023: “It’s now or never. Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society.”
Britain is approaching that same cliff edge. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics [ONS] last October, only 591,072 babies were born in the U.K. in 2023. That’s the lowest figure for almost half a century and a drop of more than 14,000 on the previous year.
Not surprisingly, the cost of living and doom-mongering are dissuading people from having children:
Less than half of women aged 30 in England and Wales, just 44%, have children. That compares to 58% for their mothers’ generation at the same age. And when their grandmothers were that age, the figure was a bouncing 81%.
Clearly, this is not solely due to the cost of living, though no one can deny that having children is expensive – perhaps unaffordable for couples who can barely afford their rent, never mind save for a deposit on their own home.
Other longer-term factors include the breakdown of the nuclear family since the 1950s, the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 1960s and the decriminalisation of homosexuality, which has increasingly freed many people from traditional gender roles.
Some women are choosing not to have babies because they are afraid of bringing children into an uncertain world beset by war that feels far less safe than it did during their own childhoods.
Others fear that it is somehow irresponsible or ecologically unsound to have a family. For them, the 2.1 ‘R rate’ is less important than Net Zero.
The Mail has some chilling predictions for the future, starting with 2025:
Immigration, both legal and illegal, continues to soar. With a dwindling number of young people available or willing to take jobs with long hours on minimum wage, many more employers look abroad. In hospitality, healthcare and construction, there appears to be no other way to fill vacancies.
In response, the Labour Government sees a way to take the heat out of the cross-Channel people-smuggling scandal – by flinging open the doors with “safe and legal routes”. Chancellor Rachel Reeves declares this will provide the much-promised economic growth.
To incentivise employers, she discounts the minimum wage for first-year immigrants to 75% of the standard rate (£12.21 an hour from April 2025).
This is a reduction from the previous rate of 80%, paid to those on a Skilled Worker or Health and Care Worker visa. The results are predictable – a surge in legal immigration, which Prime Minister Keir Starmer claims as a victory over the trafficking gangs, and an endless conveyor belt of migrant workers into care homes and hospitals.
And it doesn’t improve from there:
2027
Frequent headlines about a crisis in social care culminate in a series of shocking deaths from neglect and mistreatment in homes for the elderly.
A public inquiry determines that low pay for immigrant carers is the prime cause – far too many unskilled people, who often speak poor English and have the bare minimum of training, are being drafted in to do care work.
Experienced carers are being driven out, either by pressure to work unpaid overtime or by the thankless challenge of trying to fill in for short-term staff who aren’t up to the job. This is exacerbated by the very high turnover of migrant hires.
It’s the same story, though with fewer tragic outcomes, in restaurants and pubs. Many businesses find it is impossible to break even, and a spate of bankruptcies rocks the industry.
Immigrant staff who leave these jobs rarely return to their country of origin. They slip into the grey market, paying no tax, or take a succession of poorly paid jobs while claiming top-up benefits – intensifying pressure on the welfare system.
2029
Wiped out by public anger over immigration and care home scandals, Labour crashes to a seismic General Election defeat. The incoming Conservative-Reform alliance, with Nigel Farage as PM and Robert Jenrick as Chancellor, inherits a financial black hole that makes the previous Treasury shortfall look like a pinprick.
And so the predictions go on into the 2030s, with a cycle of collapsing governments and more and more desperate measures like freezing the state pension, compulsory seizures of the homes of older people, and encouraged assisted dying.
The solution? Have more babies the natural way. The whole story is apocalyptic and deliberately so but underlying the colourful predictions of disaster there are some uncomfortable truths, especially for a Government that has so far failed to do anything to encourage people in the U.K. to feel better and more optimistic, a context in which they might be more inclined to have families.
Worth reading in full.
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If you look at the relationship between the government and the governed a particular way you can argue that the government ‘farms’ the ordinary people for their taxes. Part of farming includes the ordinary people generating another generation of tax payers.
Perhaps ordinary people realise that they have been ‘farmed enough’ and don’t care enough to raise a new set of tax payers?
Possibly. Taxes are a necessary evil – the problem IMO is that the state keeps growing and wanting more and more, and people seem to accept that the state should “fix all our problems” (LOL).
A colleague of mine frequently makes the assertion…
“The problem with this country is that people don’t pay enough taxes.”
He is recently retired. Highly qaualified microbiologist. A firm believer that the PCR test is one of the most accurate tests ever produced. I make a point of rubbishing this comment of course.
Surprisingly, when it comes to parting with cash he’s always at the back of the queue or AWOL.
God help us!
I’m reminded of this:
“It was the blunt but ingenious billionaire Kerry Packer who memorably explained to a stunned Parliamentary committee exactly how the tax system works.
The late business tycoon said: “I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimising my tax and if anybody in this country doesn’t minimise their tax, they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you’re not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.””
Thanks for the Kerry Packer reminder.
I must say that my opinion on taxation has somersaulted. I firmly believe that it is now our duty as citizens to avoid paying tax at any and every opportunity.
And as for charity donations…nothing more than secondary taxation for the gullible.
I have made a similar journey.
Packer makes some good comments here: Two minutes with a brilliant billionaire: politics, legislation and tax
This is also hilarious: Trump: I Understand the Tax Code Better Than Anybody
Well, at least nothing really desperate is in store for us! They didn’t even contemplate to end state-sponsoring of childlessness so that people can have “sex lives” as substitute for anything else which might have provided some meaning to their non-sex lives.
Do you mean free contraception? I’ve never really thought about it, but I think you have a point.
At some point they will want to wipe the slate of debt clean with a Reset and CBDCs. They will use it as an answer to leaving the next generation in debt.
Once the Kommissars lead us to the potato fields of Absolute Zero, procreation will be just about the only pleasure left in life.
Throw in the ministrations of the Department of Energy, Food and Health Insecurity to re-create the infant mortality of past centuries, and no further incentivisation needed to go forth and address Babygeddon until further notice, other than a crack corps of UKHSA matrons to knock on doors with powers to confiscate illicit contraceptives.
https://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf
“crack corps of UKHSA matrons to knock on doors with powers to confiscate illicit contraceptives.”. Wow, yes, like the firemen in Fahrenheit 451, the role turned on its head
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-denis-rancourt-there-was-no-pandemic-it-was-the-state-that-killed-granny/5876206
Further confirmation. I know we on here don’t need this but still…
As Jordan Peterson put it: any society that does not value motherhood is committing suicide. And of course the current social-economic conditions force women to be employees and taxpayers first and foremost.
But, presumably, at some point the technologically developed countries will collapse together with industrial manufacturing and then contraception will no longer be available. At that point women will start having babies again.
Plus the orthodox religious communities have more babies anyway so they will outbreed the “progressive” societies.
Nobody’s forcing women to do any such thing. We work out of free will, because it’s considered ‘normal’ in this day and age. You know, because we’re made up of unique individuals, as opposed to one hive mind, controlled by our XX sex chromosomes common denominator?Besides, if we were being “forced” to go out to work, explain how there’s so many people of both sexes collecting dole/disability benefits. So not a lot of ‘forcing’ taking place there, is there? Why’d you think they’re shipping in so many immigrants? One of the reasons is because they’re prepared to go out and perform the low-skilled jobs natives are unwilling to get off their arses ( and benefits ) and do. This is especially true of those from Eastern Europe, in my experience. They’re not afraid of hard work.
Sorry to break it to you but if there was no contraception available the other issues would still exist. Such as cost of living, child care etc, so there’s a good chance women would just avoid having sex. Unless you’d want to take that specific choice and basic right to consent/bodily autonomy away from us as well? You know, like a certain demographic whose attitude to females is stuck in the dark ages, who we spend a lot of time complaining about on here?
“This is especially true of those from Eastern Europe, in my experience. They’re not afraid of hard work.”
Thank you. I’m one of them.
In my many years of experience it’s those people, often Poles, who are over-qualified for a position, due to what their profession was back home, but they’re not afraid to role up their sleeves and get cracking with more menial jobs. They’re grafters. Whereas it’s the non-EU migrants who we’re more likely to see living on state handouts years after arriving in the country.
But we know Muslims outbreed natives, partly due to their culture, because procreation is a duty, with little in the way of choice, but partly because of the extent of government support they’re given.
A FOI request I’d personally be interested in getting data on is how many non-EU migrants, who have, say, 2+ kids, are living on benefits, and how that compares to the native population. It’s my theory that these particular migrants wouldn’t be having so many kids if they had to support them themselves. This would also include family reunification. Family should only be allowed into the country to join the ( usually ) man if he has an established income and the means of supporting a large ( usually, again ) brood. Because otherwise the whole demographic shifts due to a topsy-turvy way of dealing with this issue. The governments are incentivizing the wrong people to have larger families, hence the gradual ‘replacement’ occurs, which we know all about by now. It’s natives that need incentivized, not just third world economic migrants. Nearly said “third world scroungers”, there…
Sorry to break it to you but if there was no contraception available the other issues would still exist. Such as cost of living, child care etc, so there’s a good chance women would just avoid having sex.
Yep. Just as they did during thousands of years before this US invention for the benefit of mankind was made. The contraceptive pill was actually never invented because mankind died out five thousand years earlier because all women were so exceptionally keen to get exploited for other people’s economic benefit that they just wouldn’t have sex.
If you honestly don’t understand that working for money is a necessity for most people and not some kind of exciting hobby they’ve taken up because it’s just better than sex (!!1) which your statement seems to suggest, I pity your total cluelessness about the real world. Try talking to some shop or bar staff to find out if they really work because to them, it’s better than sex, and not perhaps rather grudgingly because they need the money.
Sheesh.
What are you droning on about? Where have I stated that going out and earning a living ISN’T a necessity for people? I haven’t got a clue what you’re on about!
Maybe re-read my post and try cobbling together a response which borders on making sense next time. Just a suggestion…
This article accurately describes how the great replacement has been implemented over many decades. We are reaching the final stage of a very long game.
According to Emile Durkheim, the “cult of the individual” is a new religion that Western society has adopted since the decline of Christianity. Durkheim believed that this religion is based on the idea that the rational individual is sacred. It’s a complex society that’s united by modern science and individual democratic rights.
The cult of the individual is an anathema to the concept of raising a family. To bring up children generally requires that you put yourself second and your children first, this goes against the modern way of living and thinking. When you hear about the way the state and the ‘authorities’ are dictating on so many issues including trans-gender, who would want to be a parent and be hectored and dictated to in that way? The so called education system seems to have become a propaganda machine that dictates and indoctrinates. Who would want to be a parent and have to contend with the plethora of climate change and gender dogma coming back from the schools?
It is a dark World we have created and it will not go well but in the end the human spirit is indomitable and new life and new times will come, albeit it will be a painful process to get there.
I agree, even though I didn’t know about this book.
The problem with the cult of the individual is that eventually the ego finds itself so unbearable, it rather kills the host than carries on.
I think maybe that’s what Matthew 16:25 means.
“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Guys – what happened to my comment?
One of the things that I thought might wake people up to the covid scam would be the dire consequences on pregnant women who took the jabs. I haven’t looked at the stats but I hear anecdotal reports that still births and miscarriages are significantly on the rise.
One leftfield suggestion as to why we are having fewer children is – car seats!! In a normal car how many car seats can you get in the back? Two. Unless you can afford one of this more seats but then those cars are no longer on sale as SUVs take over. Have more that two children and you have a space problem unless you wait to have a third until the first pair are past child seat age – whatever that is.