t the global human population pyramid began to invert in 1963. Since then
the growth rate has STEADILY declined. It stood at 2.3 in 1963, at 1.2 in the year 2000, and is scheduled
to reach 0 (Zero Population Growth or ZPG) sometime around mid-century. We are not producing children.
This is different than what happened for instance in the 14th Century where disease wiped out a significant
percentage of the population in Europe. Our great grandfathers continued to spit out children and eventually
made up the shortfall. Today, we are no longer producing children at a comparable rate.
Meanwhile, we have extended the life expectancy of humans. We are living longer primarily because of
generous living conditions and because we brought contagious diseases under control. It is as a
consequence of this double whammy -- fewer children and greater life expectancy -- that the human
population pyramid has overturned in the last 50 years and is continuing to overturn. The percentage of
humans that are beyond 40 is growing every year. The older the global population is and the fewer children
it has, the older the entire species is overall. Under this criteria not only are we an old species, but we are
also on our way to becoming extinct.
If aging is a problem, how do we solve it?
Man is an intelligent creature, perhaps the most intelligent that a species can become in the Universe. We
are it! There is no higher intelligence than ours anywhere in the Universe. Those who believe the contrary
have only their mothers to blame. We can understand any explanation that Almighty God and the saints in
heaven wish to give us. Super-intelligence is a myth.
In spite of this, there are things humans simply can't do and problems we cannot solve. One problem that
Man cannot solve is the aging of our species. We work and develop technology to extend our life expectancy.
Everyone wants to live longer. Since the end of the Manufacturing Age, we also embarked on an inevitable
course: from the typical nuclear family to a new kind of family -- the single parent, bachelor and homosexual.
We also moved from the country to the city in every country. Our populations are becoming more urban day
by day. As we move to the cities and live in apartments, density dependent birth rates (DDBR) take over. It
is simply impossible for a couple to have 10 children like in the old days... assuming they would even want
that many children. Not only does the Service Economy forbid it, but the culture has changed. There are no
more empires to bequeath, no land, no property, no wealth, no money and no one to bequeath it to anyway.
There is no purpose to having children any more. The life of the city is little by little becoming the life of
individuals. Despite our intelligence and or technology and our ability to foresee events and react to them,
we have no way of going back to that classical age even if we wanted to. Family type is a deterministic
process over which we have no control. There is one typical family for each major age and economic
1. The Age of Hunter/Gathering was in general the age of clans and group marriages.
2. The Age of Agriculture was in general the age of the patriarchal family
3. The Age of Manufacturing was in general the age of the nuclear family.
4. And in the Age of Services and Unemployment we are experiencing the age of
bachelors, single parents and homosexuals.
There is no future in celibacy and individuality! Each individual simply lives out his and her life. There is no
Can we go back to the Manufacturing Age, have more blue collars than white, and replace the individual
with mom and pop and two kids? Can we go back to the Agriculture Age and have men put women under
their control again and turn them into the main slave of the house?
Therefore, even if going back to those glorious days happened to be the solution to the problem of declining
reproduction, despite our intelligence and technology, we would have no way of implementing such a plan.
The only way to get the global growth rate to rise again would be to change the social, economic, and
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