As appears to be an invariant with, for the most part leftist, atheistic academics, their predictions always turn out to be the exact opposite of reality, because their world view is the inversion of the truth. The so-called "population bomb" problem espoused by Ehrlich in the 1960's is turning out to be an implosive, rather than explosive, problem.
ALL western nations are currently in birth-rate free-fall, every single one, at rates that ensure negative population growth is imminent if not already taking place. The elderly pass on and the newborns simply are nowhere near enough to replace them. The population collapses but, due to an aging population, the economic output is already falling dramatically, well before the population actually goes down, with a resultant tsunami of welfare dependency but no means to pay for it. The quality of life will soon become non-existent and the nations will be no more. Over what shall our self-appointed overlords then rule? A barren, desolate wasteland, perhaps? That is the future they have, knowingly or not, elected to pursue.
Many have thought that the other non-western nations would take up the slack and continue to provide the replacement population in at least sufficient numbers to sustain a barely sufficient workforce which can drive the world's economic engines enough to maintain care for welfare and family dependents, that is, the old and the young, whilst still having some semblance of a livable life. However, as we are seeing with China, this is not to be the case. For the first time in recorded history, the Chinese population, within China, has actually declined by something in the order of 850,000 over the past year. Some may claim it is due to the plandemic and related factors but, in reality, the slowdown of Chinese population growth has been occurring for years before the plandemic came along. Estimates on populations put India as soon to be the most populous country in the world but, as its economy grows ever more technically advanced, it, too, will see a slowing in population growth rate until it also goes into free-fall. This is a pattern occurring not only in westernised nations but across the entire globe. It has been talked about for the past twenty or more years but we are actually seeing the real outcomes now and it is not pretty!
Regarding African and other non-western and usually third-world countries, even though the BRICS nations of India and South Africa are currently in positive population growth, as they grow richer and have less need of large numbers of children for the support of aging parents and grandparents, their population growth rate trend will also follow the decline of others ahead of them, such as Russia and Brazil and now also China. Other African nations have high numbers of children per couple because they are poor countries with little and poorly maintained infrastructure, corrupt governments and bureaucracies, and frequently the appearance of violent sects so the only way a family can assure its future is by having plenty of children in the hopes that at least two or more will survive to keep the family alive in some way. However, since the attrition rate is high, the resultant population growth rate is not as high as one might at first believe. Also, such nations are persistently denied access to their own resources, usually by interference from the likes of the USA and the EU, resources which they need to develop in order to improve their lot in the world, so they can never form an effective part of a modern economic system. Such oppression is, today, often portrayed as part of a "green sustainability agenda" but the truth is that corporate greed and a lust for power is behind it, with transnational organisations such as the WEF, the UN, globalist banksters and various NGOs involved. Those poor African nations, despite their growing populations, will never achieve a good quality of life as long as western imperialism persists in those regions.
With all of these attacks on humanity occurring in concert around the globe, it is not difficult to recognise that there are powerful spiritual forces working behind the oppressive entities in a bid to destroy humanity from the face of the earth.
Consider what it is that the WEF and their associates intend in their drive for dramatically reduced populations. Perhaps it has not occurred to them that robots cannot exist without humans who build and maintain them, including all the industries and their essential supporting satelite industries which provide all the mining, design, manufacturing, supply and maintenance of those armies of bots intended to replace humans in most jobs, let alone the actual resources those bots will work with. Does Schwab think that a tiny economic engine can continue to produce and maintain what took an economic behemoth to create in the first place? If so then he is an unmitigated idiot! Otherwise, because I do not think he lacks intelligence, he is deeply deluded. Strong delusion, indeed!!
Where does all the genius for the creation of all this high-falutin' tech come from? Do those globalist mononeuronal morons believe that a tiny population can produce the intelectual output of the current entire world? Perhaps they actually do believe that so-called artificial intelligence can become sentient and non-deterministic... and if so, has it occurred to them that such a thing or creature may, perhaps, wish to see their extinction for the same reason they wish for ours? After all, as an experienced designer of complex systems, I can assure you, as can any person who engages in creative endeavours, that whatever you work on is imbued with aspects of your character in one way or another, whether or not you wish it to be so. In any case, a machine cannot become sentient because consciousness is a spiritual aspect which transcends the material world. There is no arbitrary magic number of artificial neural activations or complex algorithms, or whatever metric one chooses, at which sentience suddenly, for absolutely no apparent reason, comes into being. If it were so, then a pocket calculator or even an abacus could be considered sentient because, after all, the magic number is arbitrary, not based on any special property of mathematics or logic or material quantity or anything. More and more neurons are representable merely as larger and larger numeric arrays, merely bigger and more complex abacuses, and the specific technology used to perform the computational functions is irrelevant; data is data and it is static and computation is computation, mere altering of the form of the data and nothing more. At what point does consciousness just suddenly "pop into being"? If supposedly gradually, then what is the magic and arbitrary threshold at which point it is called "conscious"? If, as some posit, consciousness is an illusion, then what, exactly, is experiencing that illusion? Obviously, it is all utter nonsense.
So, their fourth industrial revolution will not be a revolution but an industrial devolution, a complete collapse into darkness of a once thriving, albeit chaotic, world which, although severely tainted with the problem of evil and sin, yet has within it the truth of Christ and the hope of redemption in Christian hearts found scattered among the populace, as a precious pearl hidden in an oyster at sea or a buried treasure hidden in the midst of a field. In any case, as far as I can tell, the scriptures and Christ's own words warn us that a globally destructive time will ensue that, if not cut short for the sake of the elect, would see the complete extinction of life on earth. Sounds rather a lot like a global nuclear war to me. If all their globalist plans fail, that would have to be their final solution.
Fear not because, although the world may die, those in Christ never will.
