Guest guest Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 CAPS FOR EMPHASIS: THE PRIMARY REASON HINDU CIVILIZATION HAS NOT GONE THE WAY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS IS BECAUSE IT HAS A MASSIVE POPULATION BASE. YET MYSTERIOUSLY, THERE IS STILL ROOM IN INDIA FOR THE WORLD'S LAST ASIAN LIONS,(WHO USED TO ROAM FROM GREECE TO KOREA)THOUSANDS OF ELEPHANTS, COWS, RHINOS, CROCODILES, BUFFALOES, MONKEYS, SNAKES ON AND ON. WHILE HERE IN AMERICA, ONE IS CHALLENGED TO FIND WILDLIFE. ITS OBVIOUS ITS HINDU CIVILIZATION'S ETHOS THAT ALLOWS FOR SUCH SUSTAINABILITY. SO IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT TURNING THE WORLD INTO A WILDLIFE PRESERVE, THEN DEVELOP THE DHARMIC WAY. VRNDAVAN Population Control "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 - 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: 2005 Just one day after hitting the 1.3 billion population mark in January, Chinese government officials said they will ban sex- selection abortions in order to curb the growing gender imbalance problem caused by the country's coercive one-child population control policy.The 2000 census revealed there were 20% more males than females below the age of five.Chinese demographers have been given the task of correcting the imbalance by 2010, which some say may be impossible. A record number of Japanese women are unmarried and childless, leading the country perilously close to a childless society. The country has actually coined a new term to describe the phenomenon - 'shoshika,' which means "a society without children," according to a BBC report. The population, if current trends continue, will be reduced by 20 percent by mid-century, with nearly 50 percent of those being elderly -- an "impossible" situation for maintaining the health and pension systems. Women in the country are reticent to marry, blaming employer and social expectations, such as long working hours for men, coupled with the expectation that women stay at home after having children. The country has already introduced three policies to encourage women to have more children - all intended to improve child care access so that women can continue to work. So far women haven't bought the idea. Japan's birthrate fell to a record low of 1.29 last year. The birthrate, which has been falling for decades, now ranks among the lowest in the world. 2004 March Census Bureau: World Population Slowing to Dangerous Levels http://www.lifenews.com/nat397.html Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A report released Monday by the Census Bureau shows that world population growth is slowing to dangerous levels.In its report, "Global Population Profile: 2002," the Census Bureau notes that the 74 million people added to the world's population in 2002 were significantly fewer than the high of 87 million people added in 1989-1990. The growth rate was a meager 1.2 percent, down from the high of 2.2 percent in 1963-64. "Census Bureau projections show this slow-down in population growth continuing into the foreseeable future," states the Bureau's brief on the findings. "Census Bureau projections suggest that the level of fertility for the world as a whole will drop below replacement level before 2050." The Bureau attributes the dropping growth rate to two major phenomena the AIDS epidemic and declining fertility rates, including increased contraceptive use. "In 1990 the world's women, on average, were giving birth to 3.3 children over their lifetimes," says the Census Bureau. "By 2002 the average was 2.6 less than one-half of a child more than the level needed to assure the replacement of the population." "As birth rates fall into the cellar, it's time for the U.S.government to stop spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year on programs designed to lower the number of babies born even further," said Steve Mosher. "The U.S. government must abandon its thirty-year effort to contracept and sterilize the world. USAID's Office of Population must be shut down. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) must be shut down. And all population monies must be shifted to pro-natal programs. Otherwise the looming threat of global depopulation will become a devastating reality," Mosher explained. In December, the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) released a report including a projection that showed the population of the world spiraling downward from the current 6.3 billion to 2.3 billion by 2300. In some areas, the report found, fertility rates have dropped to incredible lows- a fact that U.N. population groups, such as the UNPD, ignore or downplay in their projections. "[in Italy] fertility has declined, and only declined, from 2.3 in 1950 to 1.2 today," said Scott Weinberg of PRI. "Our long-term problem is not too many children, but too few children," concludes PRI. "And population control organizations are only making this problem worse, much worse." Related Sites: U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov Population Research Institute http://www.pop.org The United Nations Population Division projects that between 2005 and 2050, the 47 nations of Europe (including Russia) will lose 93 million people, imploding from 725 million to 632 million. Even Western Europe, despite a continuing influx of childbearing immigrants, will see a significant decline in numbers. Europe's fertility rate is an anemic 1.3 children per woman, far below the 2.1 needed to maintain the population at current levels. Japan, historically antagonistic to immigrants, will lose 18 million people, shrinking from 128 million to 110 million people. America's fertility rate, on the other hand, is just above 2.1, and American women are having more, not fewer, children today than they did 15 years ago, notably in states which support Bush 's pro-life policies. Spain desperate for children as pension system headed for collapse http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html? f=/stories/20010717/620999.html&qs=heer MADRID, July 18, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Spain finds itself in dire circumstances as its birth rate of 1.2 (the world's lowest) threatens to crash the country's social-welfare system. Demographer Juan Antonio Fernandez of Spain's Superior Council for Scientific Research says Spain will require at least four times its current population by 2050 to support its retirees. He doubts that Spanish women can be persuaded to have enough babies to turn this around, and that the massive immigration needed to supply this will mean huge changes to Spain's population makeup and culture base. Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions' By Damien Mcelroy in Hong Kong (Filed: 05/08/2001) A Chinese county has been ordered to conduct 20,000 abortions and sterilisations before the end of the year after communist family planning chiefs found that the official one-child policy was being routinely flouted. Family planning officials in the Chinese province of Guangdong have increased by 400%, the fine levied against a couple giving birth to a second child without government permission, as reported by the London Daily Telegraph (7-22-02). This fine is equivalent to 8 times a couple's combined annual income, up from twice the combined yearly income at present. One of the more extreme measures taken in an attempt to control population has been China's one-child policy. Some environmentalists and population advocates ranging from Garrett Hardin to media mogul Ted Turner have suggested the rest of the world adopt similar policies.And yet there is no need for such alarmist extremism as the links below show: Population Research Institute ( PRI)(https://pop.org/) Australians for Population Justice Monitor an excellent website with back issues of their magazine. Small, R, 1997, 'The real economic problems of the aging population', Australians for population justice monitor, 3, 5, p 2 Steve Mosher speaks on China's one child policy (RealAudio Player needed to hear this file) "Ethical and Pastoral Dimensions of Population Trends" by The Pontifical Council for the Family Cittá del Vaticano, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1994, ISBN 88-209-1990-7. PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY "Declaration on the Decrease of Fertility in the World" February 27, 1998 UN Population count erroneous - see why French demographer denies UNFPA figures Overpopulation issue by the American Life League http://www.all.org/a2z-p.htm Professor of Economics articles on population aging and population issues Russian population on self-destruct course but we have nothing to be smug about - Global population decline www.overpopulation.com 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 Magazines: PERI publishes information on why the world's population is not too huge for the planet: PERI PO Box 907, Broadway, NSW 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. AUSTRALIAN POPULATION FACTS 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. Both the Australian and American governments are now considering importing more immigrant workers to service the future shortfall in workers to keep businesses going in an ageing population. 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) Home page http://www.cqnet.com.au/~user/dancasey/Population_control.html --- End forwarded message --- --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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