![]() ![]() As he put it: Who pays tax in a massively aged world? Who pays for healthcare for the elderly? Who looks after the elderly? Will people still be able to retire from work? But he also admits that, if these findings are accurate, then migration won’t ultimately solve the problem of an increasingly aging population, fewer and fewer of whom are able to work. Needless to say, the BBC’s Gallagher uses these findings to tout the importance of “migration,” especially from Africa. “I think it’s incredibly hard to think this through and recognise how big a thing this is it's extraordinary, we'll have to reorganise societies.” Professor Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who is one of the team behind these findings, told the BBC that they were “jaw-dropping”: Twenty-three countries-including Japan, Thailand, and Spain-will witness their populations fall by 50% over the next 80 years, while China will see its population fall by 48%. They predict that, by 2100, 183 countries will be at below-replacement fertility level. According to the researchers, in 2100, there will be 2.37 billion people who are over the age of 65, but only 1.7 billion people who are under the age of 20. This will parallel a dramatic shift in the age structure of the world population. The scientists conclude that the global population will peak in the year 2064 at 9.73 billion, and will decline to 8.79 billion by the year 2100. And as the rest of the world industrializes, it can be expected to follow the West (and other industrialized countries, such as Japan) in watching its fertility collapse.Īnd using various kinds of scientific modelling-factoring in the impact of improved medicine in developing countries and many other issues-this is what the research in The Lancet predicts. The rise in mutational load has certainly been documented. It seems that this is the situation that the West now finds itself in. ![]() The very presence of “the Beautiful Ones” was creating an “evolutionary mismatch,” which was making even genetically normal mice fail to develop properly, because they were no longer in the environment to which they were adapted to develop. Mice are evolved to be around genetically “normal” mice. Secondly, due to mice being a highly social species, “spiteful mutants”-mutations that interfere with social processes that allow adaptive behavior to be correctly taught-were subverting the behavior even of the normal, fit mice.In that the brain is 84% of the genome, it is a big target for mutation, meaning that those with general high ‘mutational load’ will also have mutations of the mind which will cause maladaptive desires, such as not wanting sex. Firstly, harsh Darwinian selection had been purging the genetically unfit-those high in mutation-from the gene pool each generation.But researchers have suggested two key related factors. It is still disputed exactly what caused Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia to collapse. Eventually, the entire colony went extinct. The results were horrifying: increasingly bizarre behavior patterns, increasingly effeminate males ( “the Beautiful Ones”) and masculinized females, autistic-like mice who hadn’t been socialized properly and didn’t know how to deal with other mice, mice of both sexes increasingly becoming disinterested in sex, and females, seemingly, increasingly unable to get pregnant or to sustain pregnancies. In creating this “Mouse Utopia” the experiment replicated post-industrial conditions in the West, where child mortality has fallen from 40% to about 1% since 1800, due to dramatically improved medicine and living conditions. Calhoun (1917-1995), its aim was to understand what would happen if intense Darwinian selection dramatically weakened. Led by the extraordinary creative scientist John B. This shocking experiment took place at the University of Maryland between 19. Which is exactly what the “Mouse Utopia” scenario appears to predict. This will result in a catastrophic population implosion. ![]() By then, there will be just 1.7 children per family. But we will be well below replacement levels-of 2.1 children-by the end of the century. In 2017, there were 2.4 children born per mother worldwide. And now there is the most striking evidence yet that this apocalypse may well be coming to pass.Īccording to research in British medical journal The Lancet, we are transitioning into a worldwide collapse in fertility. I reported two years ago on the famous “Mouse Utopia” experiment that seemed to suggest that ideal conditions for humanity might, paradoxically, lead to societal collapse. Earlier by Lance Welton: Of Mice and Men: ”Spiteful Mutations” Look Bad For The West and Are Southpaws Really Sinister? Increased Incidence Suggests We’re Headed For “Mouse Utopia” Collapse ![]()
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