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| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSaenz
You want to know why growing more and more and more food to feed more people never works?? Humans are animals too. Animals have two basic desires; To eat, and to fuck. When someone's hunger is satiated and they are healthy, they are constantly looking for a mate. We will leave homosexuallity out of the equation here. In fact it would be nice if there were more homosexual people, because the Earth would be a little bit better off.
Anyways if they don't have access to good family planning resources and birth control (which many people around the world do not), what do you think happens??
You've got it...more little mouths to feed.
Anyone with a three year old's (ok let's say 15 year old's) sense of reasoning knows that the Earth only has a finite amount of resources to be raped.
This is why I always laugh at those ADM commercials....
p.s. I forgot to mention that modern agriculture and modern medicine makes Nature's checks and balances irrelevant, and for the short term, exludes us from them to some extent.
What am I saying?? That I won't go to the hospital if I'm sick? That I will go on a hunger strike?? HAha. No... I'm only stating what is crystal clear to me. |
That's a theory first presented in 1798 by an english monk named Thomas Malthus, in his work called "Essay on the Principle of Population". He stated that the human population is expanding geometrically, while the natural resources can only be linearly expanded. As he stated, all children that are born above the number necessary for maintaining the population size on a desired level should disappear unless place for them appears when an adult person dies. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html
One of his more interesting paragraphs say this: Nature should be helped in creating mortality instead of attempting to lower it. Instead of recommending cleanness to poor people, the opposite habits should be encouraged. Streets should be narrowed, more people should be put in houses, and plague return should be invoked. Villages should be built near standing waters and swamps. But above all, medicines against raging diseases should be condemned, as those good willed people who are mistaken and are thinking they are doing humanity a favor by extinguishing a specific disease.
This is more or less a quote with english->croatian->english translation, so it's not 100% accurate, but you get the picture. The passage of time has shown however that this ideas are far from truth, as developed nations coped well with their population increase due to their technological and scientific advances. Also, population growth in developed countries has plummeted, due to various reasons, so now most of them are faced with a population deficit. Anyway, history shows that when a country becomes a developed one, it enters a sort of short term baby boom stage. That stage however, doesn't last for long, and a country's population growth soon consolidates.
But, the republicans have partially adopted Malthus's theory, as is visible from Henry Kissinger's 1974 document entitled "National Security Council Study Memorandum 200", or short NSSM 200. It dealt with "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests". Between other things, what it says is that the global rise in population clashes with US interests, and the overpopulated countries will use up more of their natural resources for themselves instead of trading them to the US. Also what is stated is that this population growth in some countries is a potential "threat to national security" and should be dealt with. The solution to that problem, as Kissinger sees it would be to stop the global population growht within a few decades. It also states that uncontrolled population growth is the reason why undeveloped countries remain poor (no mention of the world bank or IMF). There's also a hint that decreasing natality rates in Europe resulted in faster industrial development (although actually it's vice-versa), and that such decrease is recommended to undeveloped countries as it will result in their faster industrialization.
http://www.africa2000.com/SNDX/nssm200all.html
Here's also one interesting quote in which he recommends what the US government should do:
| quote: | Sterilization of men and women has received wide-spread acceptance in several areas when a simple, quick, and safe procedure is readily available. Female sterilization has been improved by technical advances with laparoscopes, culdoscopes, and greatly simplifies abdominal surgical techniques. Further improvements by the use of tubal clips, trans-cervical approaches, and simpler techniques can be developed. For men several current techniques hold promise but require more refinement and evaluation. Approx. Increased Cost $6 million annually.
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