China fights its demographic crisis - when will we?

In a brand new move to try and stave off their disastrously plummeting birth rate, the Chinese Communist authorities have just announced a new raft of public policies to try and combat China’s .

These include pilot projects in more than 20 cities to try and create a “new era” of marriage and family culture, and to foster a friendly child bearing environment.

If you’ve been following my commentary and public presentations for a while now, you will have heard me talk about the issue of Chinese population decline regularly over the past 20 years.

China has been in serious demographic crisis for years now, and it looks like, with this latest policy announcement, the Chinese state has finally caught up with the demographers who have been warning for decades that China’s one child policy was an abject failure (some have even estimated they could start losing as much as a quarter of their population every generation beginning in the next few years).

The end result of the Chinese family planning Utopianism is a trail of dead human beings from both forced abortions and infanticide, and cruel and unjust punishments inflicted upon women and their families for attempting to defy the Chinese state control of the family.

One of the great scandals of this period was the stark silence of many Western pro-choice feminists - and, even worse, the involvement of some Western abortion organisations in carrying out forced abortions on Chinese women.

Thankfully Western nations rejected these same sorts of state mandated population control measures when they were being militantly and loudly called for by the likes of Sanford professor Paul Ehrlich. In 1968 he coauthored a bestselling book called ‘The Population Bomb’, which claimed that overpopulation would cause (among other things) mass deaths by famine in the US and Europe unless laws were immediately introduced to limit childbirth and family size in the West.

Despite the fact that the dire predictions of the book proved to be spectacularly wrong, Ehrlich is still lauded in the environmentalist movement, and his book was pivotal in giving rise to the myth of overpopulation, which is still being taught in schools today.

Sadly, even though our Western Governments rejected the rabid calls for state mandated fertility laws, we are still facing a looming demographic winter of our own making in the West.

Chinese socialists may have forced this outcome on the Chinese people, but we in the West have freely walked ourselves into our population crisis by embracing a culture of radical individualism, hedonism, and consumerism, built on false ideas from Enlightenment Liberalism, which caused us to believe the lie that personal autonomy, pleasure, and possessions are more important than marriage, family, and community.

At least the Chinese authorities are trying to do something to fight the apocalyptic crisis their ideology has inflicted on their people.

Will our Western leaders ever do the same?