Population Collapse Ironically Debunks Left’s Climate ‘Crisis’
We’re told daily that humanity must pour trillions on the green altar of climate change.
Propaganda over polar bears, sea levels and the Paris Accords is interminable.
Yet the truth staring us in the face is that there will eventually be too few people left to warm a planet, let alone destroy it.
Global population trends show a chilling collapse.
We stand at 8 billion souls today, but many serious demographers warn of a long-term implosion. Projections calculate over two billion or fewer inhabitants within centuries, not the growth explosion that global elites once sold us.
Fertility rates in nation after nation are plummeting below replacement rates.
America, Europe, Japan, and even China have hit demographic winters that make overpopulation sound like a bad joke from the 1970s.
This is because the very cultural forces screaming about a climate crisis have literally and figuratively sterilized society. People are not marrying, making love, or having children.
Why?
They’re glued to screens, and have, as a result, been numbed by social atomization.
Add to that, their being distracted by cultural Marxism, and in many cases biologically impaired by a pharmaceutical regime more interested in compliance than continuity.
No children, no families equal no future.
A reality which is impossible to escape.
The punchline drips with irony.
If humanity is on track to vanish within centuries long before our emissions are to supposedly boil the seas, then what’s the logic of wrecking our economies to “save” a planet which will save itself?
Nature wins either way.
The cultural left wing has out engineered their own apocalypse.
They’ve debunked their climate narrative by engineering a society which won’t be around to experience it.
Even “mainstream,” left media outlets are beginning to whisper this.
The Atlantic recently ran a feature, “Should You Be Having More Babies?” (July 2025), examining the demographic implosion and asking whether humanity’s collapse is now the more urgent global threat.
The Financial Times (FT) published a striking letter declaring, “Fewer is better. . . reducing the global population to around six billion would be more sustainable.”
A Bloomberg opinion piece suggested the global population could peak around 10 billion and then collapse to under two billion in just 300 years.
By the very logic of the climate alarmists, we’ve already solved climate change!
The false idol of human-caused climate change collapses under real science.
The Earth’s climate has always changed long before SUVs.
Solar cycles have dominated historical warming and cooling trends. The Little Ice Age from roughly 1300–1850 was driven by sunspot cycles and volcanic activity.
It’s arrogant and absurd to think a species in existence for a cosmic eye-blink controls the thermostat of a 4.5-billion-year-old planet.
Carbon dioxide is the new climate villain.
Yet CO2 is plant food, not pollution.
Over the past four decades, NASA satellite data has shown that the Earth is greening as CO2 levels rise, leading to longer growing seasons and higher agricultural yields.
This purported crisis is a gift.
More CO2 means more crops, forests, and life.
Starving the atmosphere of carbon starves the planet.
Gregory Wrightstone, in “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know,” documents over 60 datasets.
NASA satellites confirm 25-50% of the Earth has greened since the 1980s largely due to CO2 fertilization. 6,100 of the last 10,000 years were warmer than today, yet life flourished.
Throughout Earth’s history, CO2 levels averaged around 2,600 ppm, compared to today’s modest ~420 ppm.
This proves that higher CO2 supported abundant plant and animal life.
Human flourishing aligns with warm periods.
Cold eras bring famine, instability, and collapse.
Al Gore’s doomsdays never arrived.
By contrast, Wrightstone’s “Inconvenient Facts” demonstrates that the planet is largely healthier than decades ago regarding food production and resilience against extreme weather.
Cultural Marxists use climate hysteria to centralize power, regulate freedom, and justify endless taxation.
Ironically, global and techno-Democrats are getting everything they wanted.
Children are not dating, marrying, or building families.
National pride has been replaced by global shame.
Love has been hollowed out by distraction, fear, and ideology.
Real human connections gave way to screens, isolation, and atomization.
When society becomes less safe, people stay home.
Instead of going out to party, drink, connect, enjoy, and celebrate life, people stay home and do drugs. Fertility rates continue to collapse. Global technocratic so-called solutions are sterilizing the very future technocrats claim to save.
The very forces preaching climate emergencies engineered the real one.
The true crisis is cultural Marxism sterilizing the future out of existence.
If humanity is voluntarily disappearing, then the climate emergency is overblown and irrelevant. The real emergency is cultural suicide, not carbon.
We should stop bankrupting our grandchildren with climate trillions.
Rather, we should restore the resources Earth truly needs. Strong families, real community, and the will to live are the sustainable matters worth fighting for.
Host of “Unapologetic with Judd Dunning” on KABC AM 790, Judd Dunning, is a political author, host, pundit, and producer. He’s created and hosted political media projects. Judd is a Newsmax regular guest commentator. As an author, he wrote the bestselling Humanix/Newsmax Book “13½ Reasons Why Not To Be A Liberal: And How to Enlighten Others.” He’s presently in the production of his next book, “13½ Reasons to Love America: How to Stop the Angry Woke Left and Preserve the America We Love.” He is represented by Karen Gantz Literary Management (www.karengantzliterarymanagement.com) and for radio and public relations by Sandy Frazier (www.SandyPundits.com) — More Here.
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