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- it is killing us! The reality behind
the overpopulation myth :
Think about it- how come Bolivia is "overpopulated" with 5
people/square kilometre but Beverly Hills or Sydney with its enormous
population density is not? How many people are needed per square
kilometre to warrant and make
affordable a school, hospital, electricity supply or piped water? Which
place
gives the evidence of this? Why do we cluster in cities and big towns -
for
the shared benefits - yet there are vast sparsely populated areas in
Australia.
Populations need to be large to gain better services, and so it is
development
aid, not killing off, that Bolivia needs.Starvation is caused by war,
poor
organisation and incompetent and corrupt governments, not by too many
people.War
reduces material goods to rubble, causes poverty and makes farming
hazardous.
Stability, peace and just government allows work to thrive and food to
be
grown, and development to proceed..
Australia's population is rapidly ageing, and births are below
replacement level in most First World countries, so why are we
continuing to believe in
overpopulation in our drive for small families, when we are in reality
killing
ourselves off?
The following quotes come from "Population and Development" by
Eamonn Keane
"the myth of overpopulation is one of the most powerful in the
world... in reality it is nothing more than a rationalisation for a
worldwide war against
the poor - a war which inhibits legitimate development and social
justice....
The Netherlands has four times the population density of its former
colony
Indonesia, but it is Indonesia and not the Netherlands that is said to
have
a problem of overpopulation. "Michael Schwartz , Overpopulation and
the
War against the Poor
"African nations are forced to accept as a precondition for
funding, family planning and all its attendant projects -abortion,
contraception, sex
education etc. A lot of money is expended by Western agencies,
particularly
Planned Parenthood of America, on contraceptives for Africa... In
villages
where there is no portable water, no electricity, and no health care
services,
the major concern of these world population control agencies is not
development
but family planning clinics"
African Caucus, Report on negative effects of population control
on
Africa Testimony on International Population Control Activities, 12
April
1994, sponsored by Population Research Institute
"the doctor finds that while he cannot save the life of a woman
dying of a simple pneumonia because he does not have a vial of
penicillin which costs only a few cents, he could if he so desired, fit
her with as many IUDs
as he liked in her death throes. An IUD costs many times the price of
penicillin"
Dr. Margaret A Ogola, Testimony on International Population Control
Activities,
1994
Philippines
"Funds for our national health programs are tied to our acceptance
and
implementation of American and Japanese contraceptive and abortifacient
programs.
We have many towns in remote areas without even the most basic
sanitation
and elementary standards of health care; but these remote areas have
USAID-subsidized
contraceptive and abortifacient drugs and devices. Acceptors of these
are
not being provided informed consent. Abortifacient drugs such as
Depo-Provera
have been used on Third World women for decades; yet there are till no
long-term
follow-up studies on the effects of these drugs on the acceptors
or
their subsequent offspring...We perceive this clearly as utilising our
women
and children as guinea pigs" Dr. Rene Bullecer MD Submission to US
Congress
, Testimony on International Population control Activities, 12 April
1994
Bangladesh
"the women of Lakpipur Village in Gazaria Upazilla in Bangladesh,
who
have had Norplant inserted in their arms, want to remove the method.
But
they are not allowed to do so by the doctors and the family planning
workers
in the Upazilla Health Centre... the women do not know that the method
is
on trial... They are not told anything beyond a few sentences" PRI
Review,
March/April 1992
"In 1984, emergency food aid which had been donated following floods
in
Bangladesh was distributed to women on condition that they be
sterilised" Book review Perspectives, No 5, 1992
"Recently five hundred women in the US have taken legal action
against Norplant's manufacturer ...over side-effects from the
implant... and Wyeth issued an expanded list of Norplant's potential
side-effects which include heart attacks and strokes...Many States in
the US will provide Norplant free
of charge to poor women but will not pay to have it removed" IRLF
Weekly
Review, 22July 1994
Recent news:
Population
Research
Institute ( PRI)(https://pop.org/)
Australians for Population Justice Monitor an excellent website with back issues of their magazine. |
Top books on this issue: "Population and Development" by Eamonn
Keane,
HLI or News Weekly books
"Handbook on population" Robert L Sassone 6th edition, ALL ISBN
1890712086
Kasun, Jacqueline “The War against Population” HLI
Today 79 countries are dying because of low birthrates. By the
year 2015, an estimated 67% of all people will live in countries with
fertility rates at or below replacement level (NewYork Times, 2 Nov
1997)
Many European countries are already trying to prop up their
workforce with
migrants.It has been estimated that to maintain its working population
longterm
Europe would need 3.6 milllion immigrants per year.
How does this affect the makeup of their population? In Europe,
Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity. Germany is
slowly but steadily
becoming Muslim.There are 2,000 mosques and prayer centers in Germany,
and
a new one opening almost every day. The only European countries that
are
growing are Muslim Albania and Catholic Malta. Most foreigners in
Europe
are Muslim. In Spain there have been 100 new mosques built in a period
of
only ten years.
In North America, the Muslim birthrate is three times the US average
family.
There are six million Muslims in the US.We have to admire their
religious
fervor, praying five times daily. They have very high moral values,
strong
family life and marital stability, and so they are against the immoral
decadence
of the West. They take a strong stand against abortion,
sterilization,homosexuality, and other devious practices that undermine
society and the family. Muslims and Christians work together to defeat
UN anti-life proposals. However,Muslims achieve with babies what they
couldn't win by wars. A Muslim will rarely marry
outside Islam, but 100,000 non-Muslim, German girls have married Muslim
men
and the majority will bring their children up for Islam.The down side
of
this stable growth is the intolerant antagonism to Christianity of many
Muslims.
Their religion glorifies "the holy war", and is a dangerous threat to
Christianity.
A Muslim can enjoy freedom in "Christian" countries, but Christians
suffer
severe persecution in most "Islamic" countries. The worst persecution
of
Christians is in Algeria and Sudan where 2,000,000 Christians were
killed
during the Sudanese War.Within six months in 1998, 3,000 women and
children
were sold into slavery. (Source HLI)
France, Greece and Singapore are now paying additional benefits to entice couples to have more children.
Australia's birth rate has
plummeted to its lowest level on record (1.7 babies per woman)
with work pressures and hectic lifestyles among factors blamed for
women stopping at only 1 child, well down on replacement level. In 1960
the average was 3.5 babies per woman. A Sunday Mail report (July 25
2004) says businesses predict this will cause the government to raise
the retirement age because of a shortage of workers. The Australian
Bureau of Statistics report found the birthrate has been below
replacement level for the past 30 years. Single child families are now
one in 3, compared to one in 5 twenty years ago.
Demographers sya the country's population
will decline this century if fertility rates fall below 1.6 and
there is no massive increase in immigration. Australia's leading
population expert, Prof Paul McDonald, wanted measures put in place to
allow working women better maternity leave and other incentives
including better childcare. Other reasons for the fertility crisis
include the high cost of buying a home, rising relationship breakdowns,
and waiting until the mid-30s to start a family but then often needing
IVF assistance to fall pregnant because of declining fertility which
hits women in their 30s.
On April 19,1999 Victorian Premier Mr. Kennet told an audience of
schoolgirls that Australian women were not having enough babies. He
told students at Melbourne's
select MacRobertson Girls' High School that while surrounded by the
huge
populations of our near neighbours, Australian women produced only 1.8
children
each on average.
"We have an ageing population, our women are not producing enough
offspring to simply maintain our population levels," Mr Kennett told
the giggling girls.
"But for you, who are going to be very major contributors to this
society right through until the year 2060, it is important that we keep
our population increasing so that there are enough young people meeting
the demands of society,
working to look after those of us who are older, but also coming up
with
new ideas."
Mr Kennett said Australia's current population of about 18.5 million
was
dwarfed by those of our near neighbours. England, with a tinier land
mass,
supports 60 million people. While we could not attempt to match those
populations,
Australians should commit themselves
to increasing our population by at
least
half over the next 60 years.
Australian National University demographer Peter McDonald said
Australia's declining fertility rate could cause a 40% decline in
population over the next century, dropping to less than 11 million. He
said falling fertility rates in Europe and Japan were resulting in
massively ageing populations which
governments could not afford.
Federal Opposition spokesman on population, Martin Ferguson, said in
1999(SundayMail
Nov 21) that Labor would establish an Office of Population, and that couples
would have to produce more babies or Australia would face serious
demographic
problems - by 2021 there will be one retired person for every 3 1/2
working.
Australian Bureau of Statistics shows: 1961 3.6 babies per
woman,
1975 2.1 babies per woman (replacement level), 1999 1.7 babies per
woman,
1 woman in 4 remaining childless. Fertility rate well below repacement
level.
1950 11% of women were childless, currently 28% are. Present
population 19 million.
In 1971 children were 34% of the population, and in 1997 they were
only
25 %. The declining rate means Australia's population will begin to
contract
in the 2030s.
It is estimated that by 2020 those over 60 will be a bigger
proportion of the population that those under 18.
A recently released discussion paper by the Australian Dept of Human and Community Resources "Low Fertility" by Allison Barnes, looks at the social and economic effects. The decreased working population will impact on the primary tax base,(fewer to pay taxes)while the demand for social services for the aged will increase. Policies and incentives which allow women to have the number of children they would like eg. lump sums paid at birth, would be favourable to merely using massive immigration.
(This in a country which aborts thousands of its unborn
citizens!)
A new UN report studying the effects of
population growth on the environment
provides information that challenges some of the most fundamental
assumptions
of population control, assumptions used to justify sterilization,
abortion
and contraception.
"World Population Monitoring 2001," prepared by the
Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
emphasizes
that many of the most dire predictions about the consequences of
population
growth have proven unfounded, and remain unlikely to occur even if the
world
population rises to 8.9 billion by 2050.According to the report,
however,
"Over the period 1961-1998, world per capita food available for direct
human
consumption increased by 24 per cent, and there is enough being
produced
for everyone on the planet to be adequately nourished.""From 1900 to
2000,
world population grew from 1.6 billion persons to 6.1 billion. However,
while
world population increased close to 4 times, world real gross domestic
product
increased 20 to 40 times, allowing the world to not only sustain a
four-fold
population increase, but also to do so at vastly higher standards of
living."Source:
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
UN Admits "Population Explosion" May be Over
New York, NY -- The UN in March 2002 convened a meeting of demographers
to
discuss whether the fertility of developing countries like India and
Brazil
will continue to fall, perhaps even reaching the extremely low
fertility rates
found in many developed nations. The Population Division of the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs concluded that it is
altogether likely that the fertility of much of the world will sink
well below replacement level, which is 2.1 children per woman. In fact,
the
Population Division reported at the meeting that, "before 2050, 80
percent
of the [world] population will be projected to have below-replacement
fertility."
In light of this new assessment, the Population Division is revising
its
projections of world population growth. For instance, the Population
Division
has reduced its 2100 projection for India by 600 million people.
Overall, the UN now believes that 74 countries, countries such as
India, Indonesia,
Brazil, Bangladesh, Mexico, and the Philippines, will follow this
pattern
of drastic fertility reduction.
Some demographers fear that an anti-natal ethos, which is
promoted by
the contraceptive movement, may be impossible to reverse and that
fertility rates will continue to fall well below 2.1 children per
woman.
The Population Division has been steadfast in its assertion that
the
fertility decline that has already occurred in countries such as Italy,
Spain,
and Japan, is beginning to have profoundly negative implications for
those
societies. The ever-increasing proportion of older people will overtax
social
security systems, pension funds, and health care facilities. In a
recent
report, the Population Division concluded that even massive migration
may
not save these countries from the problems associated with
below-replacement level fertility.Source: Catholic
Family &
Human Rights Institute; March 13, 2002
MEANWHILE WHAT ARE THE RICH DOING TO HELP? ~ Bill
Gates, now
worth more than $80 billion, has more assets than America's poorest 150
million
people. 84 individuals have more combined wealth than China, with
its
1.2 billion inhabitants and a GDP of $700 billion. The world's
225
richest people now have a combined wealth of more than $1.2 trillion,
equal
to the annual income of the poorest half of the world - three billion
people!
* The three richest people in the world own assets that exceed the
combined
gross domestic products of the world's poorest 48 countries.
* Warren Buffet, with $21 billion, helped fund the abortion drug RU486
($2
million) plus another $2 million for quinacrine hydrochloride pills
which
sterilize women via causing chemical burns to the fallopian tubes. (PRI
Weekly
Briefing 30/3/2001)
Do UNFPA “family planning” programs really “enable choice”? Not
according to the U.S. State Department:
“UNFPA … facilitates the imposition of social compensation fees and the
performance
of abortions on… women who are coerced… to undergo abortions that they
would
otherwise not undergo,” the U.S. State Department recently concluded.
“UNFPA’s
support of, and involvement in, China’s population planning activities
allows
the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of
coercive abortion.” ( “Analysis of Determination that Kemp-Kasten
Amendment Precludes Further Funding to UNFPA under Pub. L. 107-115,” US
State Dept., July 21, 2002.)
According to the democratically elected Peruvian Congress, the coercive
sterilization campaigns “executed by the Peruvian government [under
ex-President
Alberto Fujimori] were induced and financed by … the United Nations
Population
Fund (UNFPA).(”Subcomision Investigadora de Personas e Institutiones
Involucradas
en las Acciones de Anticoncepcion Quirurgica Voluntaria (AQV), Peruvian
Congress,
June 2002. 2.)
Quotable quotes:
Population controller Stephen D. Mumford said
"The [NSSM 200] study and its findings were successfully suppressed for
eighteen years by the only institution categorically opposed to the
project- a foreign-controlled institution whose security interests are
quite different from those of the
United States - the Vatican. ... On May 5, 1972, at a ceremony held for
the
purpose of formally submitting the [Population] Commission's findings
and
conclusions, President Nixon publicly renounced the report. This
was
six months before the President faced re-election and he was feeling
intense
political heat from one particularly powerful, foreign-controlled
special
interest group - the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.
"NSSM 200 made the following
recommendations,
to mention a few: ... The U.S. would seek
to
attain its own population stability by the year 2000. This would
have
required a one-child family policy for the U.S.,
thanks to the phenomenon of demographic momentum, a requirement the
authors
well understood (the Chinese did not adopt their one-child family
policy
until 1977)." "China, on the other hand, kept a
firm grip on reality. It adopted self-reliance as a core tenet of
national policy. In China, the one-child family is now widely, if not
universally, accepted as a patriotic duty." The Life and
Death of NSSM 200: How
the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy.
"Socialism should make it possible to regulate the reproduction of
human
beings. We should be able to produce human beings under a quota
system,
just as we produce bicycles and tons of steel."
Vice Premier Chan Muhua, Head of China's Family Planning Board, 1979.
Pope John Paul II "On the
other hand,
it is very alarming to see governments in many countries launching
systematic
campaigns against birth, contrary not only to the cultural and
religious
identity of the countries themselves but also contrary to the nature of
true
development. It often happens that these campaigns are the result of
pressure
and financing coming from abroad, and in some cases they are made a
condition
for the granting of financial and economic aid and assistance. In any
event,
there is an absolute lack of respect for the freedom of choice of the
parties
involved, men and women often subjected to intolerable pressures,
including
economic ones, in order to force them to submit to this new form of
oppression.
It is the poorest populations which suffer such mistreatment, and this
sometimes
leads to a tendency towards a form of racism, or the promotion of
certain
equally racist forms of eugenics.
"This fact too, which deserves the most
forceful condemnation, is a sign of an erroneous and perverse idea of
true human development."
Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis ["On the Social Teaching of the
Church"],
December 30, 1987.
"I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much." (G K Chesterton, Illustrated London News 5-24-30)
"For behold, days are coming in which men
will say "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore,
and breasts that never nursed ..." Luke 23:29.
Recommended
books:
Keane, Eamonn "Population and Development"
Human Life
International or News Weekly Books
Sassone, Robert L "Handbook on population" 6th edition,
American
Life League ISBN 1890712086
Kasun, Jacqueline “The War against Population” HLI
Mosher, Steven W. "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's
Fight
Against China's One-Child Policy"
published by Harcourt Brace in 1993 also "China Misperceived:
American
Illusions and Chinese Reality" (Harper Collins, 1990)
Longman, Phillip "Empty
cradle" Basic Books 240 pages $26(US)