Al Mohler writes a sobering post about depopulation. Go home and make some babies!
He writes:
For well over a century, many prophets of doom have predicted world overpopulation would lead to ecological disaster, famine, poverty and other woes. As Philip Longman points out in the March 24, 2009 edition of USA Today, the world's population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, up from the 6 billion mark set in 1999. So, is overpopulation a real threat?Not hardly. Though population density can threaten sustainability in some areas of the globe, the far greater danger for our future is what Longman calls "depopulation." On a global scale, we are seeing the population of older persons exploding and the numbers of young persons falling.
The trend toward depopulation started in Europe, spread to Asia, and is now detectable even in Latin America. The United Nations now predicts that total world population may begin falling as early as 2040, and much of the surviving population will be very old indeed.
2 comments:
This is a very important message, one that is seldom heard in the "mainstream media." Pets are simply not children, nor does God mean them to function as replacements for children. Moreover, I have yet to hear anyone make a truly cogent, *Biblical* case for Christians remaining deliberately childless in their marriages.
One more thought-- when I find a wife, I'll definitely make some babies, Lord willing! :-)
I would distrust the severity of this claim. History has seen much more drastic drops in population, such as famines and plagues (especially the Black Death throughout the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance). Population fluctuation is just that - fluctuation.
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