Population Growth "Alarmism" as a Deep Political Control Device

[Greg Burnham]

I think it is seriously erroneous to say "I flew coast to coast and 99% of land is unoccupied". Earth is in a resource depletion and species extinction phase right now from the population we currently have. CIA says water sources will run-out and become the reason for major conflicts. I think we would need 2.5 Earth's to sustain the present population and its current demands.

I agree.

I don't really understand the point the author of this thread is trying to make but its clear to me that human population growth is the source of most the problems we face today.

It's the economic paradigm of endless growth that must change if we are to survive as a species.

We need this planet more than it needs us.

Without restating everything I already wrote, my point is this: It is necessary to promote war when the Malthusian Paradigm is coupled with Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest" Paradigm. When both are embraced without the application of critical thinking; embraced even without asking the simple question: "What if they're not entirely correct"? --Then, the future appears extremely dismal, indeed. However, what if the biggest problem we face today is not population growth? What if a bigger problem is ignorance? What if ignorance (about voluntary control of population growth) is a major contributing factor to over population? What if ignorance (as to how crop production might be multiplied many times over in 3rd world countries) is a huge factor in starvation numbers globally? What if ignorance is at the heart of many of the fears people feel even here in America? What if that ignorance, and thus the accompanying fear, starvation, suffering and misery were all eradicated by education?

In my view, war exists due to power grabbing. It is accomplished by gaining support from those who finance it, namely, tax payers. Tax payers are convinced to finance war out of fear. The power mongers promote fear in order to serve this agenda. The type of fear being promoted, however, is far out dated, if not totally obsolete--because we actually have the means through education to solve much of the population growth concerns that almost all of us have grown up "educated" with which to be concerned.

What if there really is (or through education, the potential exists in the immediate future for there to be) "enough to go around" for everyone? What if?

I believe that through education the "lack of enough sustainable resources to go around" argument falls on its face.

"To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is requirednot because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." --JFK


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