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Monday January 26, 2009 See today’s LifeSiteNews stories Send news tips Demographic Winter: “Schools will be turned into nursing homes. Playgrounds will become graveyards.” By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Celebrated columnist and pro-family leader Don Feder gave a jaw-dropping presentation on the coming ‘Demographic Winter’ at the Rose Dinner which closes the official March for Life festivities every year. Speaking to hundreds of attendees, Feder suggested that the demographic problem of worldwide declining birthrates “could result in the greatest crisis humanity will confront in this century” as “all over the world, children are disappearing.” “In […]

By John-Henry Westen  WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Celebrated columnist and pro-family leader Don Feder gave a jaw-dropping presentation on the coming ‘Demographic Winter’ at the Rose Dinner which closes the official March for Life festivities every year. Speaking to hundreds of attendees, Feder suggested that the demographic problem of worldwide declining birthrates “could result in the greatest crisis humanity will confront in this century” as “all over the world, children are disappearing.” “In the Western world, birthrates are falling and populations are aging,” said Feder. “The consequences for your children and grandchildren could well be catastrophic.” Feder noted, “In […]

New Stats: Europe Facing Demographic Winter, Growing Political, Economic Tensions by LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White BRUSSELS, August 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population statistics and projections were released yesterday showing that European countries are dying out, even with immigration, their populations aging and shrinking. A report released this week by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical service, showed that by 2015, the number of deaths in Europe will have outstripped the number of births. By 2060, the ratio of people of working age to those over age 65 will be two to one. None of the countries of Europe currently have a […]

By 2015, European deaths will be greater than births; Russian population declining by 750,000/year

New Documentary Exposes Link Between Failing Global Economy and Demographic Winter by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A newly released documentary claims that the current global economic crisis is in part symptomatic of a global population crisis that the documentarians call a “demographic winter.” SRB Documentaries has announced the release of “Demographic Bomb: demography is destiny,” the sequel to 2008 documentary “Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family.” (see coverage here) The phrase “demographic winter” refers to the contemporary phenomenon of a worldwide rapid decline in birthrates. The new documentary makes a […]

Nota: Este artículo ha sido traducido automáticamente al español. By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A newly released documentary claims that the current global economic crisis is in part symptomatic of a global population crisis that the documentarians call a “demographic winter.” SRB Documentaries has announced the release of “Demographic Bomb: demography is destiny,” the sequel to 2008 documentary “Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family.” (see coverage here) The phrase “demographic winter” refers to the contemporary phenomenon of a worldwide rapid decline in birthrates. The new documentary makes a forceful case that the loss […]

Friday February 8, 2008 New Documentary Explores Global Demographic Crisis By John Jalsevac. February 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the world focuses its energies and its fears on a purported global-warming crisis, a new, not-yet-released documentary claims that if there is any global crisis, it is not global warming, but rather demographic winter. As the website for Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family, explains, the phrase “‘Demographic Winter’ denotes the worldwide decline in birthrates, also referred to as a ‘birth-death,’ and what it portends.” “The ongoing global decline in human birthrates is the single most powerful force affecting […]

Laments “Poor Europe With Its Demographic Winter”  VATICAN, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an interview with the Vatican official news agency Fides, the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, warned that “Everyone, believers or non, have the moral duty to support the family if humanity is to have a future”. The interview touched on United Nations population control efforts.  Recalling the United Nations Special Session on Children, the Cardinal fondly remembered the motto of various youth at the conference: “We are not the source of the problems, we are the resources… to solve […]

Thursday January 14, 2010 UN: Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045 By Kathleen Gilbert January 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs concludes that the number of elderly people worldwide will outnumber children for the first time in 2045, forecasting the start of a “demographic winter” some experts say could constitute the biggest international crisis in the coming century. According to the report, “World Population Ageing 2009,” 22% of the world’s population will be older than 60 years within forty years – a jump from 11% in […]

4th World Congress of Families May 11-13 to form united front against liberalism and secularism

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski August 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in the August 3rd issue of Maclean's magazine defends the choice of couples to remain intentionally childless, arguing that remaining childless helps the environment and that those who “breed” are guilty of extreme selfishness. After touching on a growing list of writers who promote childlessness and examining the lives of a few upscale couples who decided against parenting, the article focuses on a book by French psychotherapist Corinne Maier. “No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children” caused an uproar when published in France last year, due in […]

Maclean’s Mag: Kids “hurt your career, your marriage, your social life, your bankbook. Why bother?” by LifeSiteNews.com By Thaddeus M. Baklinski August 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An article in the August 3rd issue of Maclean’s magazine defends the choice of couples to remain intentionally childless, arguing that remaining childless helps the environment and that those who “breed” are guilty of extreme selfishness. After touching on a growing list of writers who promote childlessness and examining the lives of a few upscale couples who decided against parenting, the article focuses on a book by French psychotherapist Corinne Maier. “No Kids: 40 […]

By Hilary White   WARSAW, May 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Congress on Families, which met last week in Warsaw, Poland, announced in its closing declaration that the various threats to the family in Europe are creating a “demographic winter” that can only be healed by the protection and nurturing of the natural family.    Love; faithfulness; gift of self as opposed to hedonism; dedication to divine truth in the face of relativism; love for, instead of fear of children; and reverence for human life in the face of discrimination and “extermination of the weakest” are listed by the Congress […]

Commentary by John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, May 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Even though recent demographic study has revealed a great looming threat of demographic winter, the richest of the rich seem to believe that overpopulation is the top priority for their philanthropic endeavors.  John Harlow writes today in The Times about a secret meeting of the global financial elite, convened by Microsoft mogul Bill Gates, at which attendees agreed that curbing the world’s population should be their top priority.  In “Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation,” Harlow recounts that a May 5 meeting took place in Manhattan that included […]