Posted by
peripheral on Monday, May 04, 2009 7:27:13 AM
From My Perspective - - -
We all have some knowledge of History (for all too many, it is a scant
knowledge). We are also familiar with the phrase: “Those who forget (or
ignore) History are doomed to repeat it.” It is both important and
significant when a current Historian - David Kaiser – shares some of
his concerns and observations. David Kaiser is a professor in the
Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College
and has previously taught...Harvard University. He Observes: "I am a
student of history…I have come to think there is something monumentally
large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a
mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Something of historic proportions
is happening…We learned…that the Federal Reserve…has loaned two
trillion dollars over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom
or why or disclose the terms. Who has this money? Why do they have it?
Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized
it? We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing
our economy. Why?...We have now established the precedent of protesting
every close election (violently in California over a proposition that
is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as
between one man and one woman)…Our mortgage industry is collapsing,
housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our
banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly
bankrupt…"
Then there is a Muslim-Demographic Video released that gives rise to
the possibility that the fertility rates in the world are askew and
they will soon supplant national populations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU).
It suggests that “Germany has the lowest birthrate in Europe, with an
average of 1.36 children per woman. Despite government incentives to
encourage larger families, the population is dropping rapidly and that
trend will continue, with an expected loss of as much as 12 million by
2050. That would mean about a 15 percent drop from the country’s
current population of 82.4 million, the German news source Deutsche
Welle reported today. Germany has one of the largest populations of
Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3
million. The trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic
trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming
a Muslim state by 2050…A Culture requires a fertility rate of no less
than 2.11…Historically, no culture has ever reversed a 1.9 fertility
rate…A rate of 1.3 is impossible to reverse…Nationmaster (which took
it’s numbers from the CIA World Factbook) indicates: the actual
fertility rates are: France -1.98; England - 1.66; Greece - 1.36;
Germany - 1.41; Italy - 1.3; Spain - 1.3.” The concern raised is the
prospect for demographic shifting throughout the world. An illustration
given is that France currently has a fertility rate of 1.8 Children per
family, whereas the Muslim fertility rate is 8.1…” At that rate, France
would become a Muslim nation near the year 2025.
Consider these things with me - - - The latest data from the Population
Reference Bureau shows there are 20 countries in the world with
negative or zero natural population growth. This is unprecedented in
history! The country with the highest decrease in the natural birth
rate is Ukraine, with 0.8% each year. Ukraine is expected to lose 28%
of their population between now and 2050 (from 46.8 million now to 33.4
million in 2050). Russia and Belarus follow close behind at a 0.6%
natural decrease and Russia will lose 22% of their population by 2050 –
that is a loss of more than 30 million people (from 142.3 million today
to 110.3 million in 2050). Japan is the only non-European country in
the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose
21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere
100.6 million in 2050). How does this square with the Cultural Mandate
of Scripture? It doesn’t! In GENESIS 1:28-29, “So God created man in
his own image…male and female…And God blessed them and said…Be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living
thing that moves on the earth.” Cultural Mandate means our original
purpose was to create cultures, build civilizations and exercise
adequate care for the created world. It never allowed or meant that ZPG
would be an acceptable alternative or become a guideline to replace the
Biblical Mandate!