Let’s start with a very simple truism: you can’t have prosperity without people.

Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates and cultivates all other earthly resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of the planet, not its destroyers, as the radical environmentalists would have you believe.

The richer and more technologically advanced we become, the more likely we are to avert a catastrophic event like a giant meteor crashing into the planet and destroying all life.

Which brings us to a potentially ruinous trend: many countries are literally running out of people.

This alarming 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 flourishing. It’s also contrary to........

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