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American Freedom Alliance presents

The February Literary Cafe

The Baby Deficit and the Future of the West

with Jonathan V. Last

(Author of: What to Expect When No One's Expecting)

Author appearance

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm

Location: Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N Rexford Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Admission: $15.00 

Parking: Three hours free at the Beverly Hills Public Library

About the Book:
For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.

But the “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world’s population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, it’s already started. Japan, for instance, will be half its current size by the end of the century. In Italy, there are already more deaths than births every year. China’s One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men, not enough young people to support the country’s elderly, and an impending population contraction that has the ruling class terrified.

And all of this is coming to America. Middle-class Americans have their own, informal one-child policy these days. And an alarming number of upscale professionals don’t even go that far—they have dogs, not kids. In fact, if it weren’t for the wave of immigration we experienced over the last thirty years, the United States would be on the verge of shrinking, too.

What this means for the future of the United States and the world is the focus of this important ground breaking work.

About the Author

Jonathan V. Last 
Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, a Washington-based political magazine. His writings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, The Week, Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere. He is a regular commentator on both television and radio and has appeared on ABC, CNN, Fox News Channel, PBS, NPR, CNBC, Sky News, and the BBC. He blogs at JonathanLast.com and tweets, reluctantly, @JVLast.