Today, there is a growing belief that many of the world's problems are directly related to overpopulation. Whether it is world hunger, the lack of fresh water, the damage we are causing to our environment, or "climate change", those who believe in the myth of overpopulation have no hesitation blaming all of those problems on the "fact" that there are way too many people in the world. What is even more frightening are the solutions that many of those people who believe that the world is overpopulated are proposing. The solutions they propose include more abortion and "family planning" services, "one child" policies and mass sterilizations. In fact, there are even some in the radical environmental movement that insist that we need to get rid of 80 to 90 percent of humanity in order to "save" the environment.
The sad thing is that even the United Nations has fully bought into the myth of overpopulation. Most Americans never read any of the reports that the UN regularly puts out, but they contain some pretty shocking stuff. In particular, the United Nations Population Fund is advancing some rather bizarre theories. A great example of this was last year when the UNFPA released its annual State of the World Population Report entitled "Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate".
This shocking report went farther than any UN report has ever gone before in linking climate change with overpopulation. According to the report, the only way to avoid a massive climate disaster is to dramatically increase "family planning" services around the globe and to do whatever it takes to reduce worldwide fertility rates. In a statement accompanying the release of the report, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid stated that "rapid population growth and industrialization have led to a rapid rise in greenhouse gas emissions. We have now reached a point where humanity is approaching the brink of disaster."
The brink of disaster?
That is a bit dramatic, isn't it?
Well, the truth is that the folks managing globalist organizations like the UNFPA are absolutely convinced that climate change will bring about the end of the world as we know it unless we take urgent action.
And according to those who believe in a coming climate change disaster, the number one contributing factor to climate change is overpopulation.
Just consider the following quotes about the link between overpopulation and climate change from the UNFPA report....
*"The importance of the speed and magnitude of recent population growth in boosting future greenhouse-gas emissions is well recognized among scientists, including the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports."
*"Still, calculations of the contribution of population growth to emissions growth globally produce a consistent finding that most of past population growth has been responsible for between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of emissions growth."
*"Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendents. Hence, the emissions savings from intended or planned births multiply with time."
*"fear of appearing supportive of population control has until recently held back any mention of 'population' in the climate debate. Nonetheless, some participants in the debate are tentatively suggesting the need at least consider the impacts of population growth."
*"No human is genuinely "carbon neutral," especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation. Therefore, everyone is part of the problem, so everyone must be part of the solution in some way."
*"Strong family planning programmes are in the interests of all countries for greenhouse-gas concerns as well as for broader welfare concerns."
Are you starting to get the picture?
This UN report uses a lot of thinly veiled, politically correct language to suggest that in order to fight climate change, radical population control measures must be implemented worldwide.
And thanks to Barack Obama, the UNFPA will have plenty of money with which to pursue that agenda.
Shortly after taking office, Barack Obama directed that 50 million dollars be given to the United Nations Population Fund.
So not only is the United Nations Population Fund busy promoting their population control agenda around the globe, they are also using U.S. tax dollars to do it.
But unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident when it comes to the Obama administration. The truth is that population control is a very high priority for Obama.
In fact, during remarks that she made for the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated that population control was now going to become one of the centerpieces of U.S. foreign policy.
Not only that, but Barack Obama's top science advisor, John P. Holdren, actually co-authored a book in 1977 in which he advocated mass sterilizations using the food and water supply, mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children, forced abortions for American couples trying to have too many children and a global police force to enforce population control. The following is just one of the incredibly shocking quotes in Holdren's book....
“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”
Remember, this guy is Barack Obama's number one science advisor.
Are you scared yet?
The sad thing is that the earth is not overpopulated at all.
In fact, we could give every single family on earth a house and a yard and still fit every single person in the world in just the state of Texas.
If it wasn't for all of the greed and corruption, there would be plenty of food and resources for everyone.
The following very short videos demonstrate how absurd the dangerous myth of overpopulation really is. These videos were produced by the Population Research Institute, and they are really well done. We encourage you to send these videos out to everyone that you can....
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Accept the fact that there WILL be genocide because those with the money, the power, the will and the technology want it to happen. Additionally, it lines up with the Bible. Speaking of which, that book is either the most amazingly accurate hoax ever pulled off on mankind over a 1,500 year period of authorship or it is the divine word of the Creator. Personally, I believe the latter.
What you are saying is very counter intuitive. I have never driven down the street and said “I wish there was more traffic”,or been stuck in traffic and wished there were more people clogging up the roadways. There are plenty of people. While I do not advocate any forced birth control etc. I can not see how any reasonable person can say that we do not have enough people. Just drive in rush hour traffic and then tell me there are not enough people. This assumes you are not a selfish right winger who wants more people to drive down wages so the rich can continue to get richer off the back of the working poor.
Gary – I realized several years ago while talking to a liberal that liberalism is the ultimate expression of selfishness, just as you have stated in your post with the slam on “selfish right wingers”. Liberalism is all about killing babies, limiting reproduction, taking money from the working class, giving money and perks to the non-working class, locking up land, increasing laws and the power of the law, etc. because the mindset of liberals is just like you have expressed – “I am inconvenienced by people, I may want that benefit, I may want to go to that land and not see people”, etc. There is generally a sense of superiority associated with that liberal mindset which you have also expressed. It is exactly your type of beliefs that will lead to the mass genocide that will soon be unleashed upon the world. What I have also realized over the years is that labels tend to be counterproductive and lead people away from solutions or toward false solutions. I believed that because Bush called himself a Christian and Conservative he would be a great president. Wrong!! Liberals think that putting someone with extreme liberalism into office will bring about their utopia. Wrong!! People are people and we are all sinners with some of us saved by grace. The wicked have used labels to dupe us into supporting them and into not resisting what they are doing to this once great nation.
I completely agree with Greg. Gary, if you are tired of traffic, just move to rural South Dakota where you can drive for hours without seeing another car.
Gary, you are repeating a lie that you have been taught when you state that the rich always get richer off the backs of the poor. True capitalism works on the principle that those with hard work, good ideas, a strong work ethic and perseverance will be rewarded in a free market system.
I work for a company of over 1000 people whose founder got very rich creating and marketing an amazing product. We all are co-owners and everyone of us benefits. The more he makes the more I get; wages, benefits, stocks, 410k, etc. It is a win-win situation for me.
I believe very strongly about the socialistic, liberal ideas you are touting; they work very well until YOU runout of MY money.
Have you EVER even heard of, much less read, Animal Farm by George Orwell? It will be an eye opener for you.
Thank you.
Humans are being annihilated by genetically modified foods. Studies show that these edible toxins are leading to the infertility problem with animal control groups on GMO not producing a fourth generation and experiencing numerous adverse health effects. The human genetic makeup is also being altered and scientists will soon be adding a third strand to our DNA. This alteration of the human genetic code is going to result in us no longer being “in the image of God” and the results are going to be disastrous. One result is going to be the loss of fear that animals have of humans. This will be a part of the fulfillment of Revelation that wild beasts will kill hundreds of millions of humans in the end times.
I watched the cute videos and chuckled. To hear some people tell it, the world has an infinite carrying capacity and we don’t need to worry about pollution and the strain we impose on the environment. In reality, the supply of resources is finite, we can fish out the oceans, and we can despoil the environment that supports us.
It is true that technological advance can allow us to grow more food. However, we could have an even higher standard of living if we just had the technological advance itself without a corresponding population explosion. What you people have failed to realize is that having fewer people means having a higher quality of life because the amount of resources per capita–oil, high quality farmland, land itself, lumber, etc., would increase, decreasing the costs for those resources.
I get the sense that your opposition to the claim that population growth is a problem comes from Christian dogmatism–in this case a belief that abortion and birth control are wrong. Why not just oppose abortion and birth control while also acknowledging the reality that we live in a world of finite resources? Is God going to create a second Earth for us if our population explodes to 20 billion?
I suspect that the opposition to abortion and birth control is the real motivating factor underlying this viewpoint as well as that of the cartoons’ author, which dramatically reduces the credibility of these claims that having a higher population is not a problem.
I think that most children in a daycare center can understand that when there is a limited number of cookies, they’ll be able to eat fewer cookies when there are more children around.
Without love, there will always be overpopulation.
When you do not love your neighbour, he is always one too many on earth.
The 2nd video is particularly true. Man face extinction, and overpopulation or not, there is no way now to stop it.
# in 10-20 years we will start to run out of petrol, natural gas, lithium, uranium, etc.
==> direct consequences: no cars, no roads, no fertilizers, no pesticides, no batteries, no plastics, no tyres, no satellite, mining by hand, global crop failure
===> secondary consequence: global hunger, civil wars, collapse of health system
====> we end up in a post-industrial stone age with a tenth of the global population
# that is if we survive the impeding financial apocalypse: bankrupt governments bailing out banks who lended to bankrupt people, honest savers investing in pension funds who invest in over-inflated mortgage-backed securities and bankrupt government bounds. We can already hear the cracks in the systems, economists and analysts are more scared than I’ve ever seen
==> the governments may collapse in all of the industrialised world: US, Europe, China, middle-East,… everyone drank to the stained (un)real estate bubble
===> secondary consequences will be similar to the above
====> when we will recover we will have a few good years before running out of resources and getting back to the first case.
Overpopulation is not the issue, our way of life is.
We need to get back to nature, learn to live in harmony with God’s creation as nature’s steward, accept death when it comes, and most importantly, learn to love our neighbours.
There is no other way, if we do not comply to it willingly, nature will force us to do it in our lifetime.
Over-population is a myth? There’s plenty of food? How can that be, when your own web site says we’re on the verge of a food crisis because the honey-bees are dying? Honestly, you lose all credibility when your own articles contradict each other. Let’s try to put this into some rational perspective:
1. There is a food crisis in the making. Your site mentions the bees. There is also the problem of bad weather (let’s just call it “bad weather” since you don’t believe in Global Warming). In fact, half of all agricultural counties were declared national disaster areas by either state or federal officials last year. Right now, grain stores are at their lowest levels since we started making records – and too much of what we do have is going to “biofuels.”
2. We have grown our population mainly due to the prosperity and affluence afforded to us by cheap oil. Whether oil really is running out or whether the Evil Liberal Conspiracy directed by the Build-a-Burgers or whomever is just stopping us from finding the creamy nugget of abiotic oil that our loving God refills each day…the end result is the same. No more cheap oil. That means no more cheap food, no more good jobs, no more good medical care.
3. What are we going to do about “over-population?” Well, really, nothing. People aren’t going to have kids that they can’t afford, so people won’t be replaced. People are going to die earlier when our health-care system implodes. Life is going to get harder and lots of people simply won’t endure. The usual suspects – famine, pestilence, violence – are going to take care of the “over-population.” God’s done it before (think the Black Death)…it’s part of His standard bag of tricks. But we aren’t the kind of country that tries to “do” anything about people breeding, and I doubt that a government that’s too broke to plug an oil well has the resources to put chastity belts on each nubile woman in America.
4. Those who do try to do something about over-population by not breeding will face the horror of seeing people they despise breed – often, people who breed the most belong to exclusive religious groups that claim to be the “one true church,” like traditionalist Roman Catholicism or Mormonism, or else they’re part of groups who hate the United States for cultural/ethnic reasons and want to replace our society with one of their own making. Those of us who decide to “do something” about overpopulation hand over the future to those who hate the majority and want to replace it with a new majority – one where many of us will be excluded, repressed, or even ethnically cleansed. The religious fanatics next door who have six kids may watch three of their children die in the crap-storm that’s coming…but maybe your two children will die, too, so the nut-job’s wacko religious group will still end up ahead, even if the breeder experiences more personal grief.
So, in conclusion, not having kids tends to be bad for you personally, and is bad for your religious/ethnic community…but a lot of us aren’t going to survive, and a lot of our kids won’t survive what’s coming, either. It’s a real pickle.
Xino well said.
“In fact, we could give every single family on earth a house and a yard and still fit every single person in the world in just the state of Texas.”
Really? Ever heard of math?
Texas Land = 261,914 sq. mi.
640 acers in a sq. mi.
So 167,624,960 one acer yards.
Actual world population is 6,827,500,000.
You would need 40 areas the size of Texas,. not to mention that not all land is useable for houseing. People use resources from a MUCH larger area that their yard to survive. Things like roads between all those yards, parks, schools, factories, parking lots, megamarts, malls, farms, orcherds, feedlots, quaries, forests for wood to build all those little pink houses, etc., etc.
I find in reading those sites that say that population problems are a myth that their evidence is very sparse and inconclusive. Recently I read Book 1 of the free e-book series “In Search of Utopia” (http://andgulliverreturns.info), it blasts their lack of evidence relative to their calling overpopulation a myth. The book, actually the last half of the book, takes on the skeptics in global warming, overpopulation, lack of fresh water, lack of food, and other areas where people deny the evidence. I strongly suggest that anyone wanting to see the whole picture read the book, at least the last half.
The validity of the 2.1 fertility rate is also questioned