This is replacement theory in a nutshell.

It is dangerous and a deeply anti-American worldview.

It is poisoning minds.

So we hit a major milestone this week, and by we, I mean everyone in the whole world.

Congratulations.

The global population officially crossed the 8 billion marks. So there are now 8 billion people on the planet. It took humanity until the 1800s to hit 1 billion, but only 200 more years to multiply that number by 8. This, of course, has led to, as you might expect, lots of frantic and feeble hand-wringing about the mythical threat of overpopulation, quote-unquote.

There are too many people on the planet, they cry.

The whole planet is about to tip over on its access and will all slide off like dishes on an overturned table.

Infamously, there was once an elected Democrat who expressed a concern not far from that.

Slightly less delusional, though still plenty delusional, is the fear that we will

run out of resources or habitable land for people to live on. I mean, none of these scenarios are

realistic. There is more than enough land, more than enough resources to feed and house numbers

even greater than $8 billion. If the land or resources are misallocated or not properly utilized, or if people choose

to huddle together in massive, smelly, urban bundles, that's a different problem entirely

that cannot be blamed on sheer numbers and also cannot be solved by reducing the numbers.

In fact, it's not just that overpopulation is a myth,

one invented and propagated by nihilists and eugenicists and Bill Gates, but I repeat myself,

it's that the actual crisis we face as a globe, as a world, as a planet, the real apocalyptic

cataclysm on the horizon is quite the opposite of overpopulation.

Our problem is not that there are too many babies being born, but that there are too few being

born. The world's population is getting older. The average age of a human on earth is a decade

older now than it was in even the 1970s. Now, sure, that's partly a product of modern medicine,

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