WarRoom Battleground EP 1072: One On One With Philip Pilkington, Author Of “The Collapse Of Global Liberalism”

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What is the premise of Philip Pilkington’s new book on population decline?

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Ben Harnwell 0:54

Thursday, twentieth of August, and Domini two thousand and twenty-six. Hanwell here at the helm on Steve Bannon's Warroom. Good evening. Um got a very special guest with us today. tonight Philip Pilkington, author, macroeconomist, investment professional, um host of the multipolarity podcast, which you can also find on X, I'll give those details out towards the end of the show, at multipolar pod. Um and formerly of the Danube Institute run by the legendary John O'Sullivan. Um in um in Hungary. Philip, we're gonna start off today 'cause you've written two books and I'd like to just mention A little bit. of your insights which has some overlip overlap with the things that um our audience takes to heart especially the decline and collapse of the international rules based order, whose collapse, um whose precipitous collapse in some ways is largely responsible

Ben Harnwell 2:03

for the rise of the America First movement in the United States and the various populist nationalist iterations around the world. Let's start off with the book that you have coming out, if I may, in I think is it January of twenty twenty-seven bust the economics of population decline? Let's start off with that. Um I'll quote a little bit of it from the min material that I have, because you make the argument that once economics Once economics drove professional changes, but now demography is the most fundamental force shaping our economic future. Let me ask you, um Firstly, what do you mean by that that uh demography is the most fundamental force shaping economic our our economic future?

Philip Pilkington 3:02

Well, um, as the book argues, um the it used to be that the economy uh constrained population. So if people are aware of the writings of, say, Thomas Malthuse, that's where the term Malthusian comes from, um, the idea was that if you had, I mean, to put it in vulgar terms, if you had too many if poor people had too many children, they wouldn't be able to eat. You know, there was a fixed food supply. Too many kids won't be able to eat, right? So it's kinda like the modern um the modern Malfusians are like the anti birth people, the anti Natalists, the one that said that the there was uh there was too much population overpopulation in the nineteen seventies and stuff. Uh people who are behind many of the problems um that we have today and and we're around

Ben Harnwell 3:48

this is the population this is what we call the population control agenda, which is still very well represented in the United Nations.

Philip Pilkington 3:56

Yes, and uh was very well represented at the National Institute of Health in the United States around people like Feichi. I don't think that's uh understood enough. All that stuff is real and calling it a conspiracy theory is really stupid. Like you can read their materials and everything. There was a big scare in the nineteen seventies about population. Whether it was really about population or not is a separate story, but that's what they said. Anyway, this goes back to the arguments of Thomas Malthus, who was A British um Anglican clergyman, which is you could uh say make some comments on that. But um he argued basically that population was constrained by the food supply, basically. I mean, so by the economy.

Philip Pilkington 4:35

And so if you had a slightly larger food supply because you got better farming implements or something, then the population could grow. But if you grew the population beyond the food supply, People would starve.