EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Greece is in crisis—and it’s not the economy this time. Birth rates have collapsed, schools are shutting down, and the population could shrink by a quarter in the coming decades. The government created a ministry to combat this demographic decline, but the numbers continue to worsen. What does this mean for Greece, and why is it part of a global population emergency? Even Elon Musk recently exclaimed about the “Death Of Greece”!I
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The alarms of the demographic crisis was raised by Dr. Michael Geokas, deceased since 2017. Dr. Geokas wrote articles with studies in the 1990’s. He traveled to Greece in 1990’s with speeches, meetings with the Greek government. Nothing happened. Greece rises and falls in cycles. Humanity is in a steep decline thanks to the poison mRNA Covid 19 shots that continue to kill young people who were forced to take it.
Spartacus.
Greece’s demographic problem is serious. Very serious. And the covid vaccine has nothing to do with it. The economy does. Greece’s young people left by the hundreds of thousands in the 2010’s. during the financial crisis. Way before Covid was even in the radar. Blaminng the vaccine is just nonsense thatt has no place in any serious talk about the demographic problem. Because you dont solve problems unless you identify the cause.
Greece is not the only Western country with declining population. Other than Israel, no other advanced country is procreating to replace itself. Even China, with over a billion people is worried about child birth. Hungary tried to use incentives to accelerate births, it did not work.
However, let’s keep one thing in mind, thatt mightt give us hope that Greece won’t die off. In 1830, Greece’s population was 700,000. It didn’t disappear.
Spartacus,
I recall Dr. Michael Geokas’ passionate efforts to alarm the Nation about the Demographics, as you say on many occasions in the 90’s.
It is a coincidence that today, my wife and I are going to Villia /Attiki, his birthplace, as it is about 1/2 hour away from my mother’s village Ellopia, Thivon.
I had the privilege of inviting Dr. Geokas, as the keynote speaker to the Greek Independence Day on March 25th, 1998, at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle, WA. The previous day we had a tour of the University of Washington Campus. He marveled with admiration of the iconic four, Ionic Greek White Columns that were set as the foundation, symbolically, when the university was established in 1861. I recall our dialogue on the importance of the early American Founding Fathers’ Quest for “The Hellenization of America.”
Why the huge diversion today- why? After all, when said and done- The capital of the State of Washington is and remains-OLYMPIA! Dr. Michael Geokas, a Great Greek/American Scholar! May He Rest in Peace.
This is serious.
And the problem is showing up in the Greek diaspora in the US also. Please Greek people everywhere, have some more babies!
The diaspora is having babies, most of which are assimilated into another language and culture.
The native Greeks can’t afford to have babies.
And they can’t afford to stay in Greece, either.
Must every globalist experiment, even the depopulation of the world also begin and end in Greece?
When an Orthodox country has such a high abortion rate, legalizes gay marriages, closes churches during a pandemic, pushes the Electronic ID card; has a two tiered health system, and makes it impossible to have babies or even survive because of the high cost of living, all because of a shamelessly corrupt government that steals in broad daylight at the expense of the lives and the developement of its people – what does that tell you? It tells me that Greece is governed by those who govern her corrupt government.
The only reproduction in Greece worth measuring today is that of the sold-out snakes that lair in the Greek parliament. Their venom has driven out anyone worth keeping and has retained only those who are too poor or too incapable of leaving. These they will bleed dry until it is only the marbles and the snakes that are left.
This is how the globalists plan to win the war of attrition against Orthodoxy and Greece.
The Church of Greece has the opportunity to do what the Church of Georgia and the Moscow Patriarchate have been doing for quite some time when it comes to promoting big families. There is a very real possibility that the Church of Georgia has helped heal the demographic collapse that Georgia was facing.
Where is the Church of Greece in all of this?
The Greek state could also grant citizenship to the Greek diaspora or ancestors of recent Greek immigrants in the diaspora. Italy has been doing something similar in letting grandkids, etc., of Italian immigrants to America have a fast track to Italian citizenship.
IMHO the Mitsotakis/ND rule is going to have to collapse and the smaller parties like Spartans, etc., are going to have to come to power and incentivize Greek people to have more babies like the Russian state is and the Church of Greece is going to need to speak up.