Miriam Cates issues stark warning over 'destabilising mass immigration' as fertility decline escalates
Miriam Cates has issued a stark warning over "economic stagnation" and "destabilizing mass immigration"
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Miriam Cates has issued a stark warning over "economic stagnation" and "destabilizing mass immigration", both of which she said could result from the fertility decline seen by the West.
Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) Conference in London, the Conservative MP warned that the "social fabric" is "fraying around us", calling for a reversal of the fertility decline.
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She said the fall in birth rates is a threat to the "future existence of our society".
Decrying the "erosion of family life", she also warned that the "shared understanding of identity and responsibility is under strain".
Cates told Arc delegates at its inaugural conference in London: "The fall in fertility rates across the West threatens the future existence of our society.
"If bringing a child into the world is a sign of hope for the future, then in the West that hope is in short supply."
She added: "Unless the fertility rate decline is reversed, we are heading for a future of certain economic stagnation, or destabilizing mass immigration. Or both.
"We don't need warnings about the future to alert us to decline, we can feel the social fabric fraying around us.
"At every level of society - family, neighbourhood our nations - our social covenant, that shared understanding of identity and responsibility is under strain.
"Nowhere is this strain more evident than in the erosion of family life."
Addressing the conference earlier in the day, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson hit out at identity politics, claiming it is "tearing us apart".
Peterson said that "concerns about identity" will lead to a "pathway that's marked out by nothing but...self-serving hedonism".
He also used his speech to ask delegates: "How do we tilt the world uphill rather than downhill?", rejecting a declinist vision of the world.
Arc was established as "an international community with a vision for a better world".
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Addressing the issue of identity politics, he also called for individuals to "take responsibility" for themselves.
He said: "Take responsibility for yourself. Why? Because in bearing that noble burden, you'll find the self-regard that sustains you through catastrophe.
"And if you can take care of yourself, well, maybe you could dare to offer your hand to someone else, to your wife or to your husband - and you can say we can join together and as a unit we can be stronger and more responsible than either of us could be a part.