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We were warned some years ago not to have more than two children for this would feed the problems of world overpopulation. We obviously didn’t agree for we had five more. Today this warning is louder than ever.
In the 1960’s, Paul Ehrlich stated, “It is already too late to avoid famines that will kill millions, possibly by 1975”. Another false prophet said, “I state flatly that the hungry world will not able able to feed itself ten years from now”. This warning was given in 1967. History has proven these predictions totally false.
Indeed, the world is getting more populated. The U.S. alone increases one person about every 16 seconds. We have 3.5 billion more people in the world than in 1950. However, this does not mean it is overcrowded. To prove it, how far do you have to drive from where you are right now to see wide open spaces? I can do so in around 5 minutes.
Though states like New Jersey have a population density of 1171 people/mile2, seven of the states have a resident density of less than 20 and have less than a million citizens. The national average is only 95. The city in which I live can fit comfortably its 65,400 people into 30 square miles, a population density of 2160 people/mile2. The average school classroom, where children spend more time than any other place during the week, has a population density of a million people/mile2. In other words, to be crowded, you have to choose to bunch together. It is not inevitable because of a lack of land.
The world population density is 34 people/mile2, or 7 ½ acres of useable land for every man, woman, and child. Most of the world is still uninhabited. Indeed, the entire world population could live in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri under the same conditions as those in New York City, about 25,000 people/mile2. If you refer the less crowded suburbia density, everyone could live comfortably in the 48 contiguous states.
Usually countries like India (890 people/mile2) or Bangladesh (2750 people/mile2) are used as proof of world overpopulation. Of course, it is the crowded conditions that are blamed for homelessness and starvation. Yet Japan, a leading industrial country, has a population density only slightly less than India . No, the reason for starvation is usually political unrest, war, unwise government regulations, and false religion. Honestly, most lands, including India, could easily sustain its present population.
Ignoring the facts, however, the clarions of doom continue to sound. “We cannot long continue our present rate of progress. The first check for our growing prosperity, however, must render our population excessive” . Does this sound like the result of a recent study? It was written in 1865! “Our number are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us”. That was written by Tertullian in the second century! How comical in light of the fact that India alone has sufficient rich farmland to provide food for the entire world! Further, the production of food in the world has increased 1000% in the last century, much faster than population growth. The dangers of famine and starvation are not increasing but decreasing.
So who cares about all this? Here is the principle: to rule the people, create a crisis. The phantom overpopulation teaching has for one thing, encouraged abortion, for they claim, among other things, that the child will demand resources that will simply be unavailable. Too often children are viewed as a liability, not an asset to the world.
A leading textbook for training Gynecologists demonstrates the influence of this thinking in the medical field. “In the minds of many, rapid growth of population has become second only to nuclear warfare as civilization’s greatest menace. The gynecologist- obstetrician has assumed a leadership role and has recognized the necessity of controlling human fertility. . . Population growth is perforce temporary; that it will- indeed must- eventually cease, halted either by an increase in deaths or a decrease in births. There is no other way. Thus, people must come to want fewer children”. If a woman expecting her third child went to a gynecologist trained in this school, what advice do you think she would be given? The fact is that hysterectomies are the second most common major surgery each year (800,000), and only 10% are due to cancer.
The heart of the problem is not overpopulation but lack of love for children. They are viewed as a nuisance, a hindrance to reaching our goals. However, children are the future of any country. When they are properly trained, children both multiply their parents’ impact, and in their own way benefit the world as good citizens. Children are indeed not the cause of the world’s destruction, but its future hope.
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