Such a faulty claim seems awfully close to eugenics and is one of the scariest and most horrific thoughts out there. Worse still is it that this malevolent idea seems to be gaining momentum among powerful lobby organizations and among elitist groups of politics and science.
It’s worth asking what drives the population control and population reduction lobby. These people have been around for a few centuries and their arguments have changed over time. For one of the first population scaremongers, Thomas Malthus in the 18th century, the main problem was that if too many people were born, there wouldn’t be enough food. He vastly underestimated the ability of industrialized society to create more food.
In the early 20th century, population reduction arguments took on a racial and eugenic streak. Some claimed there were too many Africans and Asians, who might weaken the power of white European nations. More recently, the population control lobby has adopted the environmentalist’s arguments: Too many people are demanding too much of Mother Earth. Since the manmade global warming scam is getting more and more exposed for the fraud it is, this population control thingy seem to becoming the new chilling idea they want to sell to the public.
The argument frequently made by these Malthusians population control freaks is that there’s a fixed, finite amount of resources on this ball of gas and water we call Earth, and that if the human population reaches a certain number, those resources will be all used up. This is a deeply disingenuous depiction of what a resource is. There is little fixed about resources. The question of what is and isn’t a resource changes over time, depending on the level of development reached by any particular society.
The number of times the science community has argued that coal and oil will be finished a decade or two ahead is numerous. I remember that back in the 80’s it was popular to say that carbon-based fuel and energy would be nearing its end about now since the resources are scarce. It was not true then, and it is not true now.
It’s not true that the Earth is overpopulated, as you’ll hear Malthusians argue. Humans inhabit only tiny parts of this planet. Take Britain as an example. Lots of people describe Britain as overcrowded. In fact, only about seven to eight percent of Britain is “settled.” (By comparison, 46 percent of British land is used for agriculture and 11 or 12 percent of it is woodland.) Britain has plenty of space for more people. This planet isn’t remotely overcrowded.
An area the size of Iceland would give each of the 6.5 billion humans 185 square feet to themselves.
So seen to living space this planet can sustain 600-700 billion people, no problem.
But what about food? Only looking at the agricultural areas today used and if we used modern appliances and technology there’s no problem whatsoever to feed every person on this planet many times over. In fact, if we adopted a libertarian view on governance hunger would be no more and we could double or even triple our current population size and still feed everyone. And this today, with the know-how and technology we have at our disposal at this very moment and with the land used for crops today. Just think what we can do tomorrow.
Also, if we use gen-manipulation and start to grow crops in places we today don’t use there shouldn’t be any problem feeding a 100 billion people. And again, this is today, with today’s level of technology.
With this in mind I find it hilarious that people are starving by the millions and that tens of millions are on the brink of starvation in Africa. It shouldn’t be that way, but statism, fascist rulers and socialist organizations have seen to it that people are dying, completely unnecessary.
Speaking of 'hilarious'... Just imagine If these people got their way...
So what really drives the population control outlook? I’d say that what’s finite isn’t resources, but the Malthusians’ faith in humanity. It’s that which is running out and drying up. For them, a human being is never anything more than “another mouth to feed.” Yet humans aren’t simply the burping, biological users of resources; they’re the discoverers of resources, the creators of resources, the makers of communities, cities, history. A human being isn’t only a mouth that must be filled but a brain that can think and a pair of hands that can work.
But there are two other reasons for population control. Firstly population control is one of the biggest ways of keeping you under their thumb. If they control how many sperms that reach eggs each year, then they control pretty much everything about us. Secondly if we believe that resources are scarce and there’s too many of us, they can use this as an argument for why people are poor and starving. It is not the power- and wealth accumulation in the hands of the few that’s at fault, oh no, you people out there are too many…
I am guessing I’m not the only one that has noticed the increase in these sorts of argument? And believe me they will grow over time. This is most likely the next scare coming our way, and they will use mother Earth as their battering-ram.
Luckily for the environment Nazis and our elitist friends they have managed to create an financial calamity of unprecedented size and when our economies goes down the crapper so will poverty sky-rocket. Those tens of millions on the brink in Africa are most likely about to die, and perhaps they will also get a couple of more wars on the planet. The US killing millions of Muslims isn’t near enough the levels needed in the Malthusian mind.
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