00:01:15.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:23.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:49.000We 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.
00:02:01.000The World Economic Forum is meeting about all sorts of different issues.
00:02:06.000Renewable energy and the environment are forefront issues.
00:02:09.000They're talking about mass migration and how they're going to support Zelensky.
00:02:14.000Some of the news out of yesterday is that Zelensky has said that he wants $5 billion a month.
00:02:22.000He 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.
00:02:35.000So a lot of this is unfolding right now in Davos.
00:02:38.000But if you look carefully and if you look closely, there's something that is missing from the conversation amongst the world's elites.
00:02:46.000In fact, the opposite is actually happening.
00:02:48.000They are addressing an issue completely and totally incorrectly in the wrong way.
00:02:53.000And it's an issue that impacts every single person in the world.
00:02:59.000It's an issue that's happening in front of our very eyes.
00:03:01.000And 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.
00:03:08.000I 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.
00:03:20.000Put simply and plainly, we are not having enough children.
00:03:24.000Birth rates are plummeting in the industrialized world.
00:03:29.000Now, we need to ask ourselves the question, why are people having less kids?
00:03:32.000We're going to explore that throughout this hour.
00:03:35.000But 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?
00:03:45.000The disintegration, if you will, of our ability to continue our species as we know it.
00:03:52.000The World Economic Forum is talking about every possible fringe issue.
00:03:56.000But 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?
00:04:05.000Will our population go beyond replication levels?
00:04:10.000In fact, the tone and the tenor amongst the World Economic Forum seems to be one of almost an encouraging depopulation movement.
00:04:18.000Now, I want to be very clear when I say that.
00:04:20.000I'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.
00:05:16.000Now, 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.
00:05:27.000This is one issue where you see Elon Musk in complete disagreement with the Davos crew.
00:05:34.000You 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.
00:05:44.000That eventually we're going to have to plateau and bring down the amount of people that are in the world.
00:05:52.000Now, this is a very pessimistic and negative view of humanity.
00:05:56.000We reject it wholeheartedly here on this program.
00:05:58.000On this program, we believe human beings are so special that the more human beings on this planet, the better.
00:06:05.000In fact, we believe that human beings are part of the solution of the betterment of the condition of our species.
00:06:14.000That we believe, more particularly on this program, that all people are made in the image of God and they are image bearers.
00:06:21.000And 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.
00:06:38.000Play Cut 43, Elon Musk is trying to warn people, we simply do not have enough people.
00:06:46.000Where some people think like having fewer kids is like better for the environment.
00:07:03.000It's essential for maintaining civilization that we at least maintain our numbers.
00:07:07.000We 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.
00:07:21.000If you look at the numbers, the U.S. total fertility rate in 2021 remained below the replacement level of 2.1.
00:07:31.000We are below the level of replication.
00:07:34.000People are having less children than ever before.
00:08:02.000There 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.
00:08:20.000The disintegration of our ability to replicate ourselves seems to be rather important.
00:08:25.000But what is the World Economic Forum focusing on?
00:08:29.000They are the ones that are actually pushing forward the hyper-environmental agenda that is at odds with the flourishing and the prosperity of humanity.
00:08:43.000Cut 36 at the World Economic Forum going on in Davos right now.
00:09:17.000Let's use that precious cash to move fast forward to make that transition a little bit better.
00:09:24.000You know, the people that want less people in the world, you should be really skeptical of them.
00:09:28.000Why don't you want to use precious cash to try to say, boy, we need more human beings in the world?
00:09:33.000This 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.
00:09:49.000And Elon pinpoints this because Elon is not an ideologue.
00:09:53.000These people are ideologues where they almost see the world easier to control if there were just less chess pieces on the board.
00:10:01.000You 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.
00:10:34.000Look, we may have been able to stop the Ministry of Truth, but we know they'll be back with something else.
00:10:40.000We are facing the biggest threat to your constitutional rights in our lifetime.
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00:11:39.000This 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.
00:11:53.000Well, part of the new right is a decentralization agenda.
00:11:58.000And I think this is a great kind of common cause that we can have with a lot of classical liberals, libertarians, even moderate Republicans.
00:12:08.000Now, there's some things where I think I'll disagree with some of those people on, particularly with immigration or maybe the transgender issue.
00:12:15.000But I believe there is very firm common cause on this issue of taking power away from Washington, D.C.
00:12:24.000I 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.
00:12:35.000And if not you, then you should participate in a local town and then state or county and then state and then federal.
00:12:42.000It'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.
00:12:49.000And 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.
00:13:06.000And 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.
00:13:24.000Whereas if something is messed up in Mesa, then maybe Scottsdale might actually still be able to have its act together.
00:13:30.000Or St. Louis can have its act together.
00:13:31.000This is the moral argument for local government.
00:13:35.000Now, 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.
00:13:43.000They 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.
00:13:58.000Local government is a direct corollary with accountability.
00:14:02.000So you make D.C. less powerful also by having larger families.
00:14:08.000Reversing our plummeting and collapsing birth rate makes Washington, D.C. far less instrumental in your life.
00:14:16.000When there are less families and less babies and less children being born, a couple things happen.
00:14:22.000You start to look to government for more meaning and purpose and direction.
00:14:27.000When 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.
00:14:42.000You start to try to find meaning in other places.
00:14:45.000You 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.
00:14:57.000Instead 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.
00:15:06.000Now, look, large families are a proven hedge against tyranny.
00:15:13.000We went through in detail what Aristotle said of the ways that they try to control you as a tyrant.
00:15:20.000One of the ways they try to break your will.
00:15:22.000If you have a family, your will is a lot stronger because you have something to fight for.
00:15:28.000If 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.
00:15:40.000There's actually a beautiful sense of peace and satisfaction when that occurs.
00:15:43.000When 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.
00:15:49.000You'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.
00:15:57.000But also, large families de-radicalize a population.
00:16:03.000When 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.
00:16:17.000People say, wait a second, defund the police.
00:16:52.000So 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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00:17:15.000We've had uniquely American common sense since 1776, but now we're in the era of common nonsense.
00:17:22.000Today's nonsense comes from our inflator-in-chief, Joe Biden.
00:17:26.000As higher prices grip the country, Washington elitists want to blame everything except their own actions, from COVID to supply chains to Putin.
00:17:35.000The truth is that we have inflation because of the left's socialist agenda.
00:17:39.000Free money in the form of benefits means too many dollars chasing too few goods.
00:17:44.000The left's war on oil and gas makes energy scarce, and their fuel mandates hike the cost of diesel, which means everything you buy at the grocery store is more expensive.
00:17:53.000Companies go along with this because of socialist ESG investing.
00:17:57.000This is when liberal fund managers like Fidelity and BlackRock use your hard-earned retirement dollars to pressure American companies into supporting liberal policies.
00:18:06.000And these companies aren't just bad actors when it comes to your investment dollars.
00:18:09.000They also take the money you spend to give it to liberal causes, just like Starbucks.
00:18:14.000They give their customers money to organizations like Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood.
00:19:05.000We're talking about the looming population collapse in America, birth rates that are going down.
00:19:12.000And 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.
00:19:35.000It all kind of goes back to the WHO and World Economic Forum, all of these different themes that we're talking about.
00:19:42.000So the World Economic Forum is unfolding, and they want to end the sovereignty of our bodies and the sovereignty of our nation.
00:19:53.000And it's all part of a theme, it seems, to squeeze out the will to continue to want to have children.
00:20:00.000Now, there's an article for NBC News that all of you need to be aware of here.
00:20:04.000It says here, science, this is from 2017, science proves kids are bad for Earth.
00:20:12.000Morality suggests we stop having them.
00:20:16.000What a sanctimonious and smug headline.
00:20:20.000Whenever smugness is articulated, you better believe there's a liberal behind it.
00:20:48.000They believe they are better than you.
00:20:50.000Best articulated by Hillary Clinton, calling Trump voters deplorables and racist, misogynist, homophobes, Islamophobes.
00:20:59.000Morality suggests, as if you are against the idea of having more children, you're immoral.
00:21:07.000The 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.
00:21:25.000So 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.
00:21:36.000This 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.
00:21:51.000According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change.
00:21:56.000The logical takeaway here is that everyone on earth ought to consider having fewer children, NBC News writes.
00:22:03.000Although culturally controversial, the scientific half of this position is fairly well established.
00:22:09.000Several 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.
00:22:17.000The data was recycled this past summer in a paper showing that none of the activities, most likely reduce individuals' carbon footprints, are widely discussed.
00:23:11.000The environmental issue is a gateway for a surveillance state, for a social credit system, and for depopulation.
00:23:21.000You can justify any of the long-held tyrannical aims and ambitions of the regime under the excuse of the climate.
00:23:32.000NBC 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.
00:23:41.000Indeed, I have written widely on the topic myself, Travis Reeder says.
00:23:46.000The 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.
00:23:55.000Furthermore, some amount of an offspring's emissions count towards the parent's ledger.
00:23:59.000Let me tell you why I hate this entire argument.
00:24:05.000Now, at times, I push back against kind of what I call the cult of inevitable improvement of technology.
00:24:12.000I 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.
00:24:25.000So, just because you have more people does not mean you will not be able to find more efficient ways to be able to exist.
00:24:32.000And also, to what extent are human beings actually participating in climate change?
00:24:37.000This is a wordy way of saying, is climate change anthropogenic?
00:25:49.000Your body starts to direct your fat reserves to your brain.
00:25:52.000Actually, some of your great mental breakthroughs might happen when you're fasting.
00:25:57.000It'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.
00:26:01.000That if you're in the wild, food then becomes a top priority.
00:26:05.000When you're thirsty, your mouth starts to get parched.
00:26:09.000Your body adapts to its circumstance and its environment.
00:26:13.000But according to these incredible dystopian and negative theorists, they think that just because there are more human beings, the world is going to end.
00:26:27.000And 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.
00:26:46.000As 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.
00:26:59.000As if it's almost like a certainty of pessimism.
00:27:04.000Continues in the article, but scientific evidence and moral theorizing aside, this is a complicated question with plenty of opponents.
00:27:12.000And what follows, I will address some of the challenges to this idea.
00:27:15.000Because what I recognize is this is an uncomfortable discussion.
00:27:17.000I believe the seriousness of climate change justifies uncomfortable conversations.
00:27:24.000You're trying to tell me this is not a religion?
00:27:28.000I'm going to say something controversial.
00:27:29.000Andrew will be ready for all the press backlash.
00:27:32.000If 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.
00:27:49.000If 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.
00:28:07.000It really does kind of come down to how the left views humanity.
00:28:11.000And 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.
00:28:29.000You 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.
00:28:40.000Now, 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.
00:28:54.000You must understand that sort of belief is not necessarily widespread, especially amongst the earth-worshiping religions of the world.
00:29:04.000And we as Christians would call them pagan.
00:29:07.000But 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.
00:29:18.000If the earth itself is a God, then why would you ever frack?
00:29:32.000I believe it's created by God for human beings, and I want future generations to be able to enjoy it.
00:29:37.000However, when the decision needs to be made, it's very simple how you have to just reduce this down.
00:29:42.000When 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.
00:30:02.000And you see this tension with energy policy in America.
00:30:05.000I mean, we haven't really touched on it very much.
00:30:07.000We've been very busy on the World Economic Forum stuff, but we are hitting new record gas prices every single day.
00:30:14.000And 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.
00:30:25.000The higher the price of gas goes, the more powerful Vladimir Putin becomes.
00:31:02.000Those 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.
00:31:15.000Now, 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.
00:31:26.000Its ability to reason, to feel, to think.
00:31:30.000As Aristotle would say, the human being is the only being that can blush, that can feel shame.
00:32:20.000We have a totally different construct.
00:32:22.000And 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.
00:32:42.000We 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.
00:33:01.000Strong families are a buffer against big government.
00:33:03.000They're a buffer against widespread and absolute despotism, authoritarianism, and tyranny.
00:33:09.000Large families give people meaning and keep civilizations alive.
00:33:13.000If 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.
00:33:25.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:26.000Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
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