A recurring theme of the HOTLINE is that you can’t have prosperity without people and human ingenuity.

This chart on births and deaths in Europe is a terrifying glimpse into the future of a new dark age of the western world, if birth rates don’t start rising – and quickly. Europeans are becoming extinct.

Negative population growth is a sure killer of prosperity – and human happiness.

For sixty years, wackos like Paul Ehrlich (“The Population Bomb”) and governments around the world – including our own – warned that we all had a moral obligation to save the planet by having fewer babies. This evil propaganda campaign worked. And look what it has wrought.