Global Aging and Mass Murder in Norway

Our good friend Phil Longman learned that his work on demographics was admired by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who murdered more than 70 countrymen in July. Here is is recent article in Foreign Policy, the result of scouring Breivik’s 1500-word manifesto for clues about why.

Longman’s breakthrough work on the way fundamentalists (and observant religious) will out-grow secularists has been hailed at both ends of the political spectrum for various reasons. He concludes:

The vast demographic transformation overtaking the human race forces issues as contentious as they come: the role of women, religion, race and ethnicity, sex, marriage, birth control, the welfare state, and, before we are done, quite likely much harsher debates over who has a “duty to die” in an aging society. We still do face a population explosion, but mostly of old people, opening the way for generational conflict as well. Added to the mix are modern-day Malthusians who want to drive down human population to arrest global warming or just for the sake of “the planet.” This century is likely to be dominated by eugenic thinking, and all the more so as different populations face the specter of demographic decline and environmental threat. Let us all try to keep our heads, maybe invest more in children, and remember our common humanity.

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