The Charlie Kirk Show - May 24, 2022


The Great Decline: Prescribing the Coming Population Crash


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As the World Economic Forum meets in Davos, why are they not mentioning this? We dive into great detail how our birth rates are plummeting, why is it okay to have children, and is it even possible to replicate ourselves as a species?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, we are on the verge of a population collapse.
00:00:03.000 We've been talking about this for a couple years.
00:00:05.000 But as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos, why are they not mentioning this?
00:00:09.000 So we dive into great detail how our birth rates are plummeting.
00:00:12.000 Why are they plummeting?
00:00:13.000 And is it okay to have children?
00:00:16.000 We talk about the disintegration of our ability to replicate ourselves as a species and so much more.
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00:01:47.000 Right now, Davos is going on.
00:01:49.000 We had yesterday the great Jack Pasobic, who was detained by the World Economic Forum Praetorian Guard, simply for doing journalistic work on the streets of Davos, Switzerland.
00:02:01.000 The World Economic Forum is meeting about all sorts of different issues.
00:02:06.000 Renewable energy and the environment are forefront issues.
00:02:09.000 They're talking about mass migration and how they're going to support Zelensky.
00:02:14.000 Some of the news out of yesterday is that Zelensky has said that he wants $5 billion a month.
00:02:21.000 That's right.
00:02:22.000 He wants $5 billion a month from the world, that we must now subsidize the entire Ukrainian government, that the Ukrainian government must become a proxy state of the American regime in the West.
00:02:35.000 So a lot of this is unfolding right now in Davos.
00:02:38.000 But if you look carefully and if you look closely, there's something that is missing from the conversation amongst the world's elites.
00:02:46.000 In fact, the opposite is actually happening.
00:02:48.000 They are addressing an issue completely and totally incorrectly in the wrong way.
00:02:53.000 And it's an issue that impacts every single person in the world.
00:02:59.000 It's an issue that's happening in front of our very eyes.
00:03:01.000 And in fact, if you go back a couple years on the Charlie Kirk show, I remember we did this podcast back in June or July of 2020.
00:03:07.000 I remember exactly where I was.
00:03:08.000 I was in Aspen, Colorado, where we did this podcast warning about the looming, catastrophic, and immediate population collapse that is happening in the West and around the world.
00:03:20.000 Put simply and plainly, we are not having enough children.
00:03:24.000 Birth rates are plummeting in the industrialized world.
00:03:29.000 Now, we need to ask ourselves the question, why are people having less kids?
00:03:32.000 We're going to explore that throughout this hour.
00:03:35.000 But how often do you hear your Republican politicians or people in the news media dive into great detail about the looming population catastrophe in front of you?
00:03:45.000 The disintegration, if you will, of our ability to continue our species as we know it.
00:03:52.000 The World Economic Forum is talking about every possible fringe issue.
00:03:56.000 But the issue that is front and center, the issue that is so clearly in front of them that they are ignoring is: will our species be able to continue?
00:04:05.000 Will our population go beyond replication levels?
00:04:10.000 In fact, the tone and the tenor amongst the World Economic Forum seems to be one of almost an encouraging depopulation movement.
00:04:18.000 Now, I want to be very clear when I say that.
00:04:20.000 I'm not saying they want to have mass murder of people, but there is a cheering or there is an encouragement of this idea that people are the problem, that human beings are the cancer, and the solution will be less of them.
00:04:35.000 John Kerry said this in Cut 42.
00:04:39.000 He said, look, we're dealing with a man-made crisis, and it is human beings who are at fault.
00:04:46.000 Play Cut 42.
00:04:48.000 You can run around the planet, and there isn't any country on the planet that isn't feeling and living the impacts of the climate crisis.
00:04:56.000 And the oceans, they are at risk.
00:04:59.000 The chemistry changing faster than they have in millions of years.
00:05:03.000 And you can't solve the problem of the oceans if you don't solve climate.
00:05:06.000 You can't solve the problem of climate if you don't solve the ocean.
00:05:10.000 So we're dealing with a crisis here, folks.
00:05:14.000 It's a crisis made by human beings.
00:05:16.000 Now, this is one issue and one topic where you see the world's elites and the community of the world's richest directly at odds with the world's richest man.
00:05:27.000 This is one issue where you see Elon Musk in complete disagreement with the Davos crew.
00:05:34.000 You see, the predominant prevailing consensus in Davos is that we human beings have been a plague on the world and there needs to be less of us.
00:05:44.000 That eventually we're going to have to plateau and bring down the amount of people that are in the world.
00:05:52.000 Now, this is a very pessimistic and negative view of humanity.
00:05:56.000 We reject it wholeheartedly here on this program.
00:05:58.000 On this program, we believe human beings are so special that the more human beings on this planet, the better.
00:06:05.000 In fact, we believe that human beings are part of the solution of the betterment of the condition of our species.
00:06:14.000 That we believe, more particularly on this program, that all people are made in the image of God and they are image bearers.
00:06:21.000 And this idea of this kind of Malthusian eugenicist argument that we must abolish or eliminate people for the sake of environmental protections, not only is it an incredibly dangerous idea, but it's also just not true.
00:06:38.000 Play Cut 43, Elon Musk is trying to warn people, we simply do not have enough people.
00:06:46.000 Where some people think like having fewer kids is like better for the environment.
00:06:51.000 Yeah, that's crazy.
00:06:52.000 Total nonsense.
00:06:54.000 The environment is going to be fine.
00:06:55.000 They're going to be fine even if we doubled the size of the humans.
00:06:59.000 A lot of people just think that having kids is somehow bad for the environment.
00:07:02.000 I want to be clear, it's not.
00:07:03.000 It's essential for maintaining civilization that we at least maintain our numbers.
00:07:07.000 We don't necessarily need to grow dramatically, but at least let's not gradually dwindle away until civilization ends with us all in adult diapers in a whimper.
00:07:21.000 If you look at the numbers, the U.S. total fertility rate in 2021 remained below the replacement level of 2.1.
00:07:31.000 We are below the level of replication.
00:07:34.000 People are having less children than ever before.
00:07:38.000 Why?
00:07:39.000 Why are people having less children?
00:07:41.000 Where part of it is an entire generation that's being raised that having children is not a moral good.
00:07:48.000 That having children is not necessary.
00:07:50.000 that it actually could be a stain on the environment.
00:07:54.000 In fact, there's an entire movement of people that are having hysterectomies and vasectomies for the environment.
00:08:01.000 You think I'm joking?
00:08:02.000 There is an online community that is growing of people that have made the decision to try and, let's say, alter their parts to try to save the trees.
00:08:20.000 The disintegration of our ability to replicate ourselves seems to be rather important.
00:08:25.000 But what is the World Economic Forum focusing on?
00:08:28.000 Not that.
00:08:29.000 They are the ones that are actually pushing forward the hyper-environmental agenda that is at odds with the flourishing and the prosperity of humanity.
00:08:43.000 Cut 36 at the World Economic Forum going on in Davos right now.
00:08:48.000 We are subsidizing the problem.
00:08:50.000 We need to use precious cash to move forward faster.
00:08:53.000 We need to move more collaboratively when it comes to renewable energy and environmental directives.
00:08:58.000 Play Cut 36.
00:09:00.000 We could stop subsidizing the past.
00:09:02.000 Today, 70% of the incentives that they are putting for the industry of energy, they go to fossil-based alternatives.
00:09:11.000 Only 20%, they go to renewable energy.
00:09:15.000 We're subsidizing the problem.
00:09:17.000 Let's use that precious cash to move fast forward to make that transition a little bit better.
00:09:24.000 You know, the people that want less people in the world, you should be really skeptical of them.
00:09:28.000 Why don't you want to use precious cash to try to say, boy, we need more human beings in the world?
00:09:33.000 This is a flawed argument where they believe that any sort of environmental outlying, outliers, any sort of environmental issues are a byproduct of human beings having too many people.
00:09:46.000 We believe it to be the opposite.
00:09:49.000 And Elon pinpoints this because Elon is not an ideologue.
00:09:53.000 These people are ideologues where they almost see the world easier to control if there were just less chess pieces on the board.
00:10:01.000 You see, it becomes easier to manage a smaller population, and especially if families are not big and strong and vibrant, big families are a direct threat to global government.
00:10:14.000 Let me say that again.
00:10:16.000 Big and flourishing and connected families and communities are a direct threat to global government.
00:10:22.000 And for the World Economic Forum, I hope you're hearing me clearly.
00:10:25.000 I am much more afraid of global government than I am of global warming.
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00:11:37.000 So how do you make DC less powerful?
00:11:39.000 This is something that we complain a lot about how powerful D.C. is, how corrupt the Department of Justice is, how corrupt our intel agencies have become, how overreaching the federal bureaucracies are.
00:11:51.000 How do you make D.C. less powerful?
00:11:53.000 Well, part of the new right is a decentralization agenda.
00:11:58.000 And I think this is a great kind of common cause that we can have with a lot of classical liberals, libertarians, even moderate Republicans.
00:12:08.000 Now, there's some things where I think I'll disagree with some of those people on, particularly with immigration or maybe the transgender issue.
00:12:15.000 But I believe there is very firm common cause on this issue of taking power away from Washington, D.C.
00:12:24.000 I believe there is a lot of momentum behind this idea of the revival of self-government, of you should be able to make the decisions for yourself.
00:12:35.000 And if not you, then you should participate in a local town and then state or county and then state and then federal.
00:12:42.000 It's that we immediately look to the cable news channels of Washington, D.C. as the most important place to be able to dictate and determine your life.
00:12:49.000 And the founding fathers understood that the states created the federal government, the federal government didn't create the states, and the needs, wants, and concerns of somebody from Boston is a lot different than the needs, wants, and concerns of somebody from Mesa, Arizona.
00:13:01.000 There's geographic differences.
00:13:03.000 There's cultural differences.
00:13:05.000 There's all sorts of differences.
00:13:06.000 And to try to have a one-size-fits-all governing strategy from Washington, D.C., from the Pullet Bureau, from the bureaucracy, it inherently makes the margin for error increased because if you mess it up, it messes it up for everybody.
00:13:24.000 Whereas if something is messed up in Mesa, then maybe Scottsdale might actually still be able to have its act together.
00:13:30.000 Or St. Louis can have its act together.
00:13:31.000 This is the moral argument for local government.
00:13:35.000 Now, whenever you talk about local government, the other side starts to scream at the top of their lungs as if the worst parts of humanity will terrorize people in that local area.
00:13:43.000 They talk about Jim Crow 2.0 in the South and all that, kind of the typical talking points, without recognizing or realizing that the true spirit of self and local government is what sparks the change, that you must be accountable to the people in your local area.
00:13:58.000 Local government is a direct corollary with accountability.
00:14:02.000 So you make D.C. less powerful also by having larger families.
00:14:08.000 Reversing our plummeting and collapsing birth rate makes Washington, D.C. far less instrumental in your life.
00:14:16.000 When there are less families and less babies and less children being born, a couple things happen.
00:14:22.000 You start to look to government for more meaning and purpose and direction.
00:14:27.000 When you have large families, you then all of a sudden are able to sustain yourself, your need for meaning, a lot easier than if you were childless or not even married to begin with.
00:14:42.000 You start to try to find meaning in other places.
00:14:45.000 You know, I always say that the BLM movement or the kind of alphabet mafia, if you will, it kind of gives people their daily quota of meaning.
00:14:53.000 Like I put the flag in my yard.
00:14:55.000 I have the BLM sticker.
00:14:57.000 Instead of raising a child or going to church, which is actually much more constructive ways to try to find a connection to a higher purpose.
00:15:06.000 Now, look, large families are a proven hedge against tyranny.
00:15:13.000 We went through in detail what Aristotle said of the ways that they try to control you as a tyrant.
00:15:20.000 One of the ways they try to break your will.
00:15:22.000 If you have a family, your will is a lot stronger because you have something to fight for.
00:15:28.000 If you have a family, all of a sudden you realize that there's something greater than yourself, that it's not just your own feelings or your own existence, but you're part of something that you are only a member of.
00:15:40.000 There's actually a beautiful sense of peace and satisfaction when that occurs.
00:15:43.000 When you realize you're not the most important thing in the world, that you're part of something that will actually live on beyond you.
00:15:49.000 You're part of what Edmund Burke would call the three-tied knot, honoring what came before, honoring what is today, and honoring what has yet to become.
00:15:57.000 But also, large families de-radicalize a population.
00:16:03.000 When families have lots of children and the birth rate is going in a favorable direction, these bad left-wing, meaning void-filling ideas or that fill the void of meaning, they start to not really resonate.
00:16:17.000 People say, wait a second, defund the police.
00:16:18.000 I have three kids.
00:16:19.000 I want them to be protected.
00:16:20.000 Critical race theory doesn't make any sense.
00:16:22.000 I want them to learn American values and history.
00:16:25.000 We are experiencing large in part the tyranny of the childless.
00:16:31.000 Many of these bad ideas and these policies are being put forward by people that are not married, that do not have children.
00:16:40.000 They have no interest in those.
00:16:41.000 That's okay if you're not married, you don't have children.
00:16:42.000 It's not an accusation against you.
00:16:44.000 The question is: are you against having more children in society?
00:16:50.000 It de-radicalizes a population.
00:16:52.000 So it's not just necessary for the species, it's actually really helpful to save the greatest civilization ever to exist, which is the West.
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00:19:05.000 We're talking about the looming population collapse in America, birth rates that are going down.
00:19:12.000 And so now, as the World Health Organization looks to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, it's not a big leap to think that if they can declare a public health emergency with this new WHO treaty ending U.S. sovereignty, they could also come in and implement a version of the one-child policy saying that children and human beings are a threat to all humanity.
00:19:35.000 It all kind of goes back to the WHO and World Economic Forum, all of these different themes that we're talking about.
00:19:42.000 So the World Economic Forum is unfolding, and they want to end the sovereignty of our bodies and the sovereignty of our nation.
00:19:53.000 And it's all part of a theme, it seems, to squeeze out the will to continue to want to have children.
00:20:00.000 Now, there's an article for NBC News that all of you need to be aware of here.
00:20:04.000 It says here, science, this is from 2017, science proves kids are bad for Earth.
00:20:12.000 Morality suggests we stop having them.
00:20:16.000 What a sanctimonious and smug headline.
00:20:20.000 Whenever smugness is articulated, you better believe there's a liberal behind it.
00:20:27.000 Liberals are the masters of the smug. 0.69
00:20:31.000 They are the masters of the sanctimonious.
00:20:36.000 That's why they want us to be subjects, not citizens.
00:20:39.000 They literally and figuratively want to look down upon you.
00:20:45.000 We call this ivory tower syndrome.
00:20:48.000 They believe they are better than you. 0.99
00:20:50.000 Best articulated by Hillary Clinton, calling Trump voters deplorables and racist, misogynist, homophobes, Islamophobes. 0.99
00:20:59.000 Morality suggests, as if you are against the idea of having more children, you're immoral.
00:21:07.000 The article written by Travis Reeder, director of and master of bioethics degree program, says, quote, we need to stop pretending kids don't have environmental and ethical consequences.
00:21:25.000 So their ethical framework is that the planet and the trees matter more than human beings, even though it's a false assumption that human beings are actually harming these things.
00:21:36.000 This is an article written for NBC News: quote: A startling and honestly distressing view is beginning to receive serious consideration in both academic and popular discussion of climate change ethics.
00:21:51.000 According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change.
00:21:56.000 The logical takeaway here is that everyone on earth ought to consider having fewer children, NBC News writes.
00:22:03.000 Although culturally controversial, the scientific half of this position is fairly well established.
00:22:09.000 Several years ago, scientists showed that having a child, especially for the world's wealthy, is one of the worst things you could do for the environment.
00:22:17.000 The data was recycled this past summer in a paper showing that none of the activities, most likely reduce individuals' carbon footprints, are widely discussed.
00:22:25.000 I'm going to pause right there.
00:22:27.000 Carbon footprints.
00:22:29.000 Well, that's where the World Economic Forum is spreading, sending a lot of their attention.
00:22:33.000 This is kind of a language pattern you're going to start to see.
00:22:38.000 NBC News says, stop having kids.
00:22:40.000 World Economic Forum boasts about how we're going to have trackers following your individual carbon footprint.
00:22:47.000 Play Cut 41.
00:22:49.000 We're developing through technology an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint.
00:22:57.000 What does that mean?
00:22:58.000 That's where are they traveling?
00:23:01.000 How are they traveling?
00:23:02.000 What are they eating?
00:23:03.000 What are they consuming on the platform?
00:23:06.000 So, individual carbon footprint tracker.
00:23:11.000 The environmental issue is a gateway for a surveillance state, for a social credit system, and for depopulation.
00:23:21.000 You can justify any of the long-held tyrannical aims and ambitions of the regime under the excuse of the climate.
00:23:32.000 NBC News writes, the second moral aspect of the view that perhaps we ought to have fewer children is also being taken seriously in many circles.
00:23:41.000 Indeed, I have written widely on the topic myself, Travis Reeder says.
00:23:46.000 The argument that having a child adds to one carbon footprint depends on the view that each of us have a personal carbon ledger for which we are responsible.
00:23:55.000 Furthermore, some amount of an offspring's emissions count towards the parent's ledger.
00:23:59.000 Let me tell you why I hate this entire argument.
00:24:02.000 It is so incredibly pessimistic.
00:24:05.000 Now, at times, I push back against kind of what I call the cult of inevitable improvement of technology.
00:24:12.000 I don't like it, where they all technology is great all the time, but it's inarguable that some technological advances have actually helped with carbon emissions, more efficient cars, natural gas.
00:24:25.000 So, just because you have more people does not mean you will not be able to find more efficient ways to be able to exist.
00:24:32.000 And also, to what extent are human beings actually participating in climate change?
00:24:37.000 This is a wordy way of saying, is climate change anthropogenic?
00:24:47.000 Anthro, of course, meaning human.
00:24:49.000 So, they always say, you know, they kind of do this to kind of intimidate you, quite honestly, to say like big words.
00:24:55.000 Okay, you just mean man-made.
00:24:56.000 I'm like, no, no, it's anthropogenic.
00:24:58.000 Okay, so you mean man-made.
00:25:01.000 But they're trying to basically dial down rather dismissing any other possible contributions.
00:25:07.000 But let's pretend they are right.
00:25:10.000 Let's pretend that it is all 100% man-made.
00:25:15.000 Have they factored into any of their arguments?
00:25:18.000 Science says kids are bad.
00:25:20.000 Morality suggests we stop having them.
00:25:22.000 What an unbelievably negative view of humans.
00:25:25.000 That we will not be able to adapt or adjust.
00:25:29.000 We are an adapting species.
00:25:31.000 It's amazing how God made us.
00:25:34.000 Go into an ice tub.
00:25:36.000 I do it quite often, actually.
00:25:37.000 It's great.
00:25:38.000 Wakes you up.
00:25:39.000 Immediately, your body adapts and sends blood to your extremities.
00:25:43.000 Knows exactly what to do.
00:25:44.000 What happens when you're in the heat?
00:25:45.000 You start sweating.
00:25:47.000 What happens when you're hungry?
00:25:49.000 Your body starts to direct your fat reserves to your brain.
00:25:52.000 Actually, some of your great mental breakthroughs might happen when you're fasting.
00:25:57.000 It's because the way God made our bodies, that if you have to eat, all of a sudden you'll start seeing colors more clearly.
00:26:01.000 That if you're in the wild, food then becomes a top priority.
00:26:05.000 When you're thirsty, your mouth starts to get parched.
00:26:09.000 Your body adapts to its circumstance and its environment.
00:26:13.000 But according to these incredible dystopian and negative theorists, they think that just because there are more human beings, the world is going to end.
00:26:23.000 What an awful way to live your life.
00:26:27.000 And this is similar to kind of what we talked about on our Ask Me Anything episode that aired on Monday, but we did it, aired on Friday and we posted it on Monday, which is if the future is fixed, which is if the binary choice is we must abolish humanity as we know it and massively depopulate or the world will completely and totally disintegrate.
00:26:46.000 As if there isn't something where you could say the species can improve, create, take risks, a new generation of entrepreneurs will emerge and allow us to go to a chapter of flourishing that we've never seen before.
00:26:59.000 As if it's almost like a certainty of pessimism.
00:27:04.000 Continues in the article, but scientific evidence and moral theorizing aside, this is a complicated question with plenty of opponents.
00:27:12.000 And what follows, I will address some of the challenges to this idea.
00:27:15.000 Because what I recognize is this is an uncomfortable discussion.
00:27:17.000 I believe the seriousness of climate change justifies uncomfortable conversations.
00:27:24.000 You're trying to tell me this is not a religion?
00:27:28.000 I'm going to say something controversial.
00:27:29.000 Andrew will be ready for all the press backlash.
00:27:32.000 If this is implemented, this idea of environmental extremism, it will do more damage than any other belief system that the left tells you to fear.
00:27:48.000 Let me say that again.
00:27:49.000 If the radical environmental depopulation, children are the problem, we must rid the world of human beings, actually gets implemented in its purest form, it will do more damage to the species than any of the other ideas the media tells us to fear.
00:28:07.000 It really does kind of come down to how the left views humanity.
00:28:11.000 And if you look at humanity as nothing more than what your carbon footprint is, I mean, a different way to say it is like you're nothing more than a junk emitter.
00:28:18.000 You're a spreader of debris.
00:28:20.000 You're like a breathing contan contaminator, I should say. 1.00
00:28:25.000 A litter bug with a brain. 0.99
00:28:29.000 You see, it comes from a false moral premise in this entire ridiculous article, and NBC articulates it, which is that somehow the earth is supreme and that we must be subservient to the earth. 0.99
00:28:40.000 Now, the biblical construct is completely the opposite, which is that human beings are here to flourish and grow and to enjoy the earth, that you must have dominion over the earth.
00:28:54.000 You must understand that sort of belief is not necessarily widespread, especially amongst the earth-worshiping religions of the world.
00:29:04.000 And we as Christians would call them pagan. 0.81
00:29:07.000 But if you do have an earth-worshiping religion, this idea that the earth is there for our enjoyment, for our benefit, or for our flourishing, is wildly controversial.
00:29:18.000 If the earth itself is a God, then why would you ever frack?
00:29:23.000 You wouldn't.
00:29:24.000 If the earth itself is worthy of worship, now I want to be very clear.
00:29:27.000 I love the environment.
00:29:29.000 I love getting out.
00:29:30.000 I want clean air and clean water.
00:29:32.000 I believe it's created by God for human beings, and I want future generations to be able to enjoy it.
00:29:37.000 However, when the decision needs to be made, it's very simple how you have to just reduce this down.
00:29:42.000 When the decision has to be made between the flourishing and the survival of human beings or the pathological protection of some insect or some non-useful piece of land, then you always must side with the human.
00:30:02.000 And you see this tension with energy policy in America.
00:30:05.000 I mean, we haven't really touched on it very much.
00:30:07.000 We've been very busy on the World Economic Forum stuff, but we are hitting new record gas prices every single day.
00:30:14.000 And believe it or not, if these trends continue, Russia and the ruble is actually going to have one of the best years they've ever had, despite the attempt to try to create them into a pariah state.
00:30:25.000 The higher the price of gas goes, the more powerful Vladimir Putin becomes.
00:30:30.000 It's kind of interesting.
00:30:31.000 It's almost like he gamed out that entire thing.
00:30:34.000 But you look at the moral problem with the environmental agenda of this administration.
00:30:42.000 Deep down, they believe that fossil fuels are not the true polluters. 0.96
00:30:47.000 They think you're the junk emitter.
00:30:51.000 They think you are the one doing the contamination. 0.97
00:30:54.000 That you're nothing more than a collection of carbon footprints that is contaminating the earth.
00:31:00.000 We look at it differently.
00:31:02.000 Those of us that are rooted in team reality, we look at the human species and the human being as being something so exceptionally made with a heart, a soul, a mind, a body, the combination of all of that.
00:31:15.000 Now, obviously, we have a religious undertone with that, but even if you're completely secular and you're not a believer, it is unquestionable to say that the human itself is unlike anything created in the world.
00:31:26.000 Its ability to reason, to feel, to think.
00:31:30.000 As Aristotle would say, the human being is the only being that can blush, that can feel shame.
00:31:36.000 We are the speaking beings.
00:31:38.000 We are the only being on the planet that can speak, not communicate.
00:31:43.000 That's different.
00:31:44.000 A dog can feel pleasure and pain.
00:31:47.000 A human can decipher right from wrong.
00:31:51.000 Morality is a human condition.
00:31:54.000 There is no morality in the wild.
00:31:57.000 In the wild, there is no protection of the innocent.
00:31:59.000 The strong dominate the weak, and that's it.
00:32:02.000 There is no, the weak animal gets discarded out to nature.
00:32:06.000 There is no sympathy for the weaker deer or the willbe beast.
00:32:11.000 There is fear of the lion, and you flee from it.
00:32:14.000 But in the human construct, we have charity.
00:32:18.000 We have benevolence.
00:32:20.000 We have a totally different construct.
00:32:22.000 And so it's not too far-fetched to say that the environmentalists, when you extrapolate their belief as far as it goes to earth worship and all of this, they're also at odds with the morality of actually what a human being is in its essence, a speaking being, and the moral construct that comes along with it.
00:32:42.000 We are on the verge of a serious and almost irreversible population collapse with a generation that is having less children than ever before, that is getting married less than ever before, that is, of course, also more suicidal, more miserable, more alcohol-addicted, more drug-addicted than any other generation in history.
00:33:01.000 Strong families are a buffer against big government.
00:33:03.000 They're a buffer against widespread and absolute despotism, authoritarianism, and tyranny.
00:33:09.000 Large families give people meaning and keep civilizations alive.
00:33:13.000 If we're serious about getting America and our civilization back to greatness, let's start with the most simple thing we could do, which is to protect and rebuild the American family and have lots of children.
00:33:25.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:36.000 God bless.
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