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'Demographic Winter': The Right's New Apocalypse
Right-wing groups warn that Western civilization is facing a `demographic winter,' risking the destruction of what they call the natural family.
If over the years you've been following the debate over population growth, you are familiar with the argument that it is economically unfeasible for the earth to sustain an unlimited population. You might subscribe to that argument, or you might believe that it isn't so much a problem of population growth but rather of the inequitable worldwide distribution of resources. Or you might see the two as inter-related. In recent years, however, a new wrinkle has been introduced into the debate; a concept called "Demographic Winter."
For many conservatives, demographic winter -- or "birth dearth" as it is sometimes called -- is the ultimate culture war battle, rooted in the rise of feminism, legalized abortion, the acceptance of homosexuality, illegal immigration, and the growth of minority populations. All of this is supposedly the result of a multi-decade campaign by liberals to undermine "natural law" and the "natural" family.
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