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Source: Sputnik
US Life Expectancy Drops Third Year in Row Due to Alcoholism, Drugs and Suicide Rates - Report
November 28, 2019
US life expectancy continued to decline for the third year in a row, while midlife mortality rates increased for all population groups, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on Tuesday. According to JAMA, midlife mortality, which is defined as mortality for individuals between the ages of 25 and 64, had increased "across all racial groups" and was caused by "drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, suicides, and a diverse list of organ system diseases."
The increase in midlife mortality occurred from 2014 to 2017, which was the last year examined in the study.
"US life expectancy increased for most of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014," the study concludes. "The implications for public health and the economy are substantial."The Ohio Valley, which includes parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana, and northern New England were listed as being among the hardest-hit geographic areas, as they have seen a loss of manufacturing jobs in recent years, and Ohio and West Virginia have been particularly affected by the opioid-addiction epidemic.
Meanwhile, the National Center for Health Statistics said on Wednesday that the US fertility rate declined in 2018 for the fourth straight year. The 2018 fertility rate was 59.1 births for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, a record low. The decline has been ongoing since the 2008 financial crisis, with a slight uptick in 2014. Fertility rates tend to decline in periods of economic distress, but in this instance, the fertility rate has not rebounded even as the economy has recovered.
"It is hard for me to believe that the birthrate just keeps going down," University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson told the New York Times.Please go to Sputnik to read the entire article.
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Source: Lew Rockwell
The Defining Event Of The 21st Century: Underpopulation
By Bill Sardi | November 28, 2019
There are apocalyptic books that alter the course of history. The Bible, for one. Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb, published in 1968, another. Since Ehrlich's book predicted hundreds of millions of people would starve to death because of overpopulation, modern populations have groveled with family planning, birth control, abortion, forced population control (China) and imagined threats of famines and resultant environmental and climate disasters. Then this book:
EMPTY PLANET, The Shock Of Global Population Decline, by Canadian researchers Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (Little Brown Book Group, 2019)According to its authors, young women won’t need to forgo having babies to save the planet, they have already instinctively delayed or foregone childbirth for reasons of career, pursuit of wealth and autonomy, no covert or overt population control plans needed.
The postulation of the book is that in countries where urbanization is a trend and the standard of living and incomes are high, women are having so few babies as to imperil the required growth in their country’s future. Cultural changes, not any religious dictums or government regulations, are responsible for this monumental change.
But wait, outmoded ideas sometimes never fade away. Old ideas remain indelibly in the minds of people, particularly the doomsday ideas of Paul Ehrlich. If what EMPTY PLANET book says is true, then many are still mired in the past (notice the dates on these proclamations).
• Joe Pfeifer, in his October 5, 2019 missive posted at ReporterHerald.com, says: "We should focus on the one root cause for all these catastrophes. Our planet cannot sustain the doubling of our global population that occurs ever 61 years… we have too many people."In the quintessential argument over whether the planet is half-empty/half-full, the overpopulation mantra is paused by these startling recent headlines:
• The world clearly can't support 10 billion people living like Americans do today. – Science Magazine, July 1, 2005
• "Consider adoption if you want children." – Sean Dennison, Oct. 9, 2019 • • • • Calls to have few or no children to fight climate change are common. Celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Prince Harry have become advocates for limited birthing. – Vox, August 20, 2019
• Kevin Casey writing at com (November 20, 2019) says: "Climate changes is not the biggest threat to the world's environment – we are… Now our numbers are out of control, and that presents us with limited options… Stop getting sidetracked by the climate change industry and recognize that the problem is our sheer numbers and blatant disregard for the planet's health – not the climate… We need more global promotion of family planning, more female empowerment and government incentive to have fewer children—not more."
• "Everyone knows that the world is overpopulated, or soon will be. But what if everyone is wrong." — Steven Mosher, Population Research Institute, Feb. 8, 2019There are some over-population prophets who are going to have to eat their words.
• "We've worried about overpopulation for centuries. And we've always been wrong.” — Vox 20, 2019
• "The biggest problem the world will face is population collapse." — Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Aug. 30, 2019
Ehrlich wrote: "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked on now." Who could have imagined what would come next? While human populations more than doubled between 1950 and 2010, food production tripled with only a 30% increase in land under cultivation. The dire predictions of famines of Malthusian proportions were belied, say the EMPTY PLANET authors. They now say only 14% of the world’s population is in the search-for-the-next-meal poor.
The simple fact is: In 1900 the average woman in the U.S. had 3.85 children. Today the average is 1.9 children. No society has ever recovered its population once its birthrate reached 2.1 children per couple or lower.
As Bricker and Ibbitson state in EMPTY PLANET, "All of this (talk about the end of plenty on our planet) is utterly wrong."
Now, not tomorrow
Bricker and Ibbitson travelled the world to find out if the overpopulation is real or a myth. They didn't come up with the hypothesis of their book from the confines of a library. The book is a narrative of modern history as much as it presents facts, and it looks back at something that is already underway – underpopulation in western Europe, Italy, Japan and North America already having birth rates below replaceability. But also, unexpectedly, in China and India as well.
In Japan, women are not just forgoing birth, they aren't even getting married or having sex! Women completely avoiding their biological destiny to procreate (share in creation of life with God). Will a sub-class of "uneducated" women arise who have all the babies? A large population of women now have no compunction to do what they were created for. Women in the 3rd world are having most of the babies now. And how does all this fly in the face of the Biblical unction to be "fruitful and multiply?" (Genesis 1:28) Bricker and Ibbitson say there will be no turning back. Women are changing the world and running and ruling over whole economies in a demonstrable way, for better or worse, like no despot could ever imagine.
Bricker & Ibbitson: "We won't have to wait thirty or forty years to feel the impact of population decline. We're feeling it today… We see it in every household where the children take longer to move out because they're in no rush to settle down and haven't the slightest intention of having a baby before they are thirty."
Governments didn't curb birth rates, women did
As women become more educated and urbanization progresses, birth rates decline. Gone is the allegory created by Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) of his Malthusian pond, that goes something like this:
A farmer's pond had two lily pads but were doubling in number and size every day. The farmer was warned that it would choke the pond in 30 days. He didn’t worry about it for 28 days because it seemed so small. On the 29th day it covered half the pond. Then he only had one day to solve the problem. The pond is the earth. The lilies are human populations. But Malthusian predictions are not happening.Lilies in ponds are programmed to incessantly grow given the right circumstances. Women are not mindless like lilies. Females, provided with education, food, housing and a career, have changed their minds and reversed the once thought-to-be-inevitable course of history.
Please go to Lew Rockwell to read the entire article.
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Source: Komo News
KOMO News Special: Seattle is Dying
by Eric Johnson | March 15th 2019
FULL MEASURE: June 2, 2019 - Seattle is Dying
Seattle Is Dying. It's a harsh title. Someone on social media even called it a "hopeless" title. I'll admit to you that I wrestled with the name for some time. Too dramatic, I wondered? Too dark? In the end I went with it because I believe it to be true. I believe that Seattle is dying. Rotting from within.
This show, that we've been working on for several months now, is really the third in a kind of trilogy.
The first was called "There But For the Grace of God..." It explored homelessness from the inside out in 2016.
The second was called, "Demon at the Door." It was about the hellish existence of heroin addiction.
This one is about everyone else.It's about citizens who don't feel safe taking their families into downtown Seattle. It's about parents who won't take their children into the public parks they pay for. It's about filth and degradation all around us. And theft and crime. It's about people who don't feel protected anymore, who don't feel like their voices are being heard.
This program is not about demonizing those who are struggling with addiction and homelessness and mental illness. On the contrary. Instead, it asks the question, "Why aren't we doing more? Why don't we have the courage to intervene in lives that are, in the face of a grave sickness, reeling out of control?"
It's called, Seattle is Dying, and I believe the title to be true. But it's not a hopeless program. There are ideas and concepts in the show that could start conversations about change.
Please go to Komo News to read the entire article.
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Mike Stone - Lament of a Los Angeleno
November 30, 2019
Mike Stone- "Homelessness is an issue I'm well acquainted with. I was kicked out of my house when I was 16 and spent close to a year living on the streets. So I know what it's like to be homeless. Giving people free tents, free condoms, and free needles is the last thing homeless people need. All that does is keep them living on the street."
"California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks." -- S.E. Hinton "Rumble Fish"
Q: How do you take the most beautiful and prosperous state in the nation and turn it into a third world shit-hole? A: Put Demoncrats in charge.
by Mike Mains
(henrymakow.com)
Since I last reported on the state of Commiefornia, the situation has only gotten worse. Crime has increased, homelessness abounds, and the onslaught of unfettered immigration continues.
In Los Angeles, where I live, it's truly a tale of two cities. There is an enclave of rich liberals in Beverly Hills, the Westside, and Malibu, while the rest of the city is a seething mass of humanity. The Westside neighborhoods are relatively clean and crime-free. Ours are covered in filth, graffiti, and human suffering.
If you're homeless in Beverly Hills, it's only a matter of minutes before the police sweep in and throw your rear in the hoosegow. If you're homeless anywhere else in the city, the police are not allowed to harass or arrest you. In fact, homelessness is encouraged with free tents, free condoms and free needles (only a city run by Demoncrats would do this).
There's a small camp of homeless people living in the alley behind my building. I talk to them occasionally. One in particular, a black guy named Robert, is quite intelligent. I asked him why he didn't just get a job and get off the streets.
"Honestly?" he said, "I just don't want to work."
And that's the difference. When I was homeless, you were forced to work and climb your way up. If not, you withered away and died. Today, anyone in Los Angeles can get a free tent, pitch it anywhere he wants outside of Beverly Hills, and live peacefully, without any interference from the police.
In Los Angeles, the homeless piss and defecate wherever they are - on the street, in the elevators at the subway stations, in your front yard - they don't care. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
PANHANDLERS
With homelessness comes panhandling. To live in L.A. is to get hit up by panhandlers on a daily basis. They congregate near the subway entrances, in front of Walgreens, or in front of the 7-11, opening the door for you and expecting a tip. Now I'm all for helping a person in need, but it's gotten to the point where you can't tell a person in need from a con artist.
There's an old black guy who panhandles on the subway. He's so broken and hunched over, he can hardly walk. I give him money because I figure no one will give him a job. On the other hand, there's a black girl who I've seen panhandling on the subway for at least four years. Her line is always the same, "Can anyone spare a dollar? I haven't eaten today." It could be 9:30 PM and she still hasn't eaten for the day, despite the fact that she looks 20 pounds overweight.
Please go to henrymakow.com to read the entire article.
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Source: Press TV
US life expectancy declining due to more deaths in middle age
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
People visit Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day November 11, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Getty Images)
After rising for decades, life expectancy in the US decreased for three straight years, driven by higher rates of death among middle aged Americans, a new study suggests.
Midlife all-cause mortality rates were increasing between 2010 and 2017, driven by higher numbers of deaths due to drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, suicides and organ system diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, according to the report published in JAMA.
"There has been an increase in death rates among working age Americans," said Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"This is an emergent crisis. And it is a uniquely American problem since it is not seen in other countries. Something about life in America is responsible," he said.
The rising rates of midlife mortality hit some regions of the country harder than others, Woolf and his coauthor found. Increases were highest in northern New England and the Ohio Valley.
Economic hardship and the resulting despair may be to blame in those regions, Woolf suggested.
"While it's a little difficult to place the blame on despair directly, the living conditions causing despair are leading to other problems," he explained. "For example if you live in an economically distressed community where income is flat and it's hard to find jobs, that can lead to chronic stress, which is harmful to health."
Noting that a pattern of increasing mortality in middle age is not seen in other high income countries, Woolf said this might be because "in other countries there are more support systems for people who fall on hard times. In America, families are left to their own devices to try to get by."
Data for the study came from the National Center for Health Statistics and the US Mortality Database for 1959 to 2017. The researchers also scoured the medical literature for studies of US life expectancy and mortality trends.
Based on the data, life expectancy had increased by almost 10 years over the course of nearly 6 decades - from 69.9 years to 78.9 years - but had been declining since 2014. And the overall decline was explained by increased mortality among the middle aged.
Please go to Press TV to read the entire article.
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