New in PJ Media:
People in the United States and Europe have long taken for granted the idea that the world is in the midst of a “population explosion” that threatens to cause the starvation of millions and render the earth uninhabitable The world, we were told, would simply run out of food, and could not possibly sustain the population it would soon have. This was how generations of people were sold on the idea that it was the “responsible” thing to do to have small families, and it even led to the weakening of the idea of the family itself as contributing to the looming problem that looked as if it would kill us all. There was just one problem with the whole scenario: there was no population explosion at all, as a new study has now confirmed.
The UK’s far-Left Guardian admitted Monday that “the long-feared ‘population bomb’ may not go off, according to the authors of a new report that estimates that human numbers will peak lower and sooner than previously forecast.” The Club of Rome study, which was “carried out by the Earth4All collective of leading environmental science and economic institutions, including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Stockholm Resilience Centre and the BI Norwegian Business School,” predicts that “on current trends the world population will reach a high of 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly.” This being the Guardian, it added: “The peak could come earlier still if governments take progressive steps to raise average incomes and education levels.”
It’s jarring to read this. Population explosion hysteria has been a staple of education for decades, and there are no doubt millions of people who still take the idea that soon there will be many more people on earth than can possibly be fed as axiomatic fact. Americans have so internalized this belief that people with large families are guilt-tripped on a routine basis. I myself can remember being inundated with this propaganda in public school at all levels, although of course, no one recognized it as propaganda in those palmy days, as far back as the early 1970s. The population explosion myth became the basis for many of the Left’s other favored agendas, including the “climate crisis,” the bug-eating plan, and even the sexual revolution, which was in large part made possible by the contraception and abortion that we were told had to be readily available in order to try to bring the world’s population under control.
All this is largely the work of one man, Paul Ehrlich, who despite being an obvious fraud (or perhaps because he’s an obvious fraud) is enjoying a new vogue among Leftists today. The Wall Street Journal noted in Jan. 2023 that the establishment media treats the 90-year-old Ehrlich “with an obsequious deference,” as evidenced in a “recent cringe-worthy segment on CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’” that retailed the population explosion myth yet again.
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Hank says
“The population explosion myth became the basis for many of the Left’s other favored agendas, including the “climate crisis,” the bug-eating plan, and even the sexual revolution, which was in large part made possible by the contraception and abortion”
Well, at least those Leftist’s are “happy” now that they achieved some of their goals – destruction of the family and family values, bilking women in the Western world into aborting their babies by the millions, then replacing the dwindling Western population simultaneously with mass illegal Muslim invasion, throwing out the original Judeo-Christian culture and replacing it with Islam and Greta Thunberg, dotting the landscape with Mosques, promoting the alphabet crowd as a norm for young children and finally Qatargate. What could possibly go wrong?
somehistory says
I saw this yesterday….showing a large number of Korean kids with one young woman leading them. As if the explosion was a real threat.
Propaganda is a tool. It’s used to gain acceptance of unnumbered issues. It’s also used as a weapon to bring about things the populace would refuse if the Truth was told instead.
And b gates, k schwab, and their henchmen are working to make sure that population bomb propaganda is still believed, but that they can *solve* the problem with **”reproductive health”*** a.k.a. killing of the unborn, and **”vaccines”** a.k.a. clot shots and “gene therapy” that kills.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, it is especially absurd to use South Korea as an example–it has one of the lowest birthrates in the world–just 0.78. More dishonesty.
Walter Sieruk says
To put another in perspective, on the subject of an immense population in the many nations of earth, one sensible view on topic may be seen in one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled “The lioness and the vixen.”
In this fable, a Vixen and a lioness were both bragging about their children, as some mothers do. The Vixen boasted that that her has many children and told lioness has only one.
“Yes, that’s true” the lioness replied “but my one is a loin. “
The point is quality and not quality.
Likewise, the terrible reality is that many people although they live within the law, and aren’t criminals, they still live useless lives that never contribute anything to society of value or worth.
They don’t become doctors or engineer what design good sold useful infrastructure or even promote any type philosophical concepts , precepts principles and guidelines that contribute to the to the upholding of Western civilization. Even though such people are many they are still , in essence, useless.
Therefore, it filling to reiterate the point in that fable of Aesop which is “quality and not quality.”
Mark Spahn says
According to the cover of Paul Erlich’s book “The Population Bomb”, “While you are reading these words, five people, mostly children, have died of starvation — and forty more babies have been born.”
Thus every time this mantra is read (not even recited), the world’s population increases by 40-5=35 people. So if N people die in a cyclone, they can be replaced by a single person who reads this prayer N/35 times. That’s reassuring to know.
gravenimage says
Now They Tell Us: New Study Shows That the ‘Population Explosion’ Was a Myth
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I remember the fear this book engendered–and not just in 1968, but pretty much ever since.
somehistory says
Back in the 80s, I read several studies where scientists found that the earth could hold…feed and water…many more than what some were claiming was *overpopulation* and the earth could not support that many.
A lot of people see what they want to see…whether or not it’s True.
JimJFox says
Here we go again. Everything is viewed from it’s political viewpoint, has to be EVIL LEFTIST on this platform.
Important issues transcend mere politics and overpopulation is one. Another is climate change. That you don’t believe in either demonstrates a depressing level of stupidity, when they are obviously interlinked and a fact.
SO you all think we can carry on as normal and all will be fine & dandy? What a wonderful example of communal self-delusion!
Dawne says
The worst legacy of this overpopulation myth is that the uneducated, feckless, non-working continue to breed in high numbers; the educated, professional, working, tax-paying either limit their families or have no children. Darwinism in action.
somehistory says
I have a wonderful doctor….he’s an excellent physician….and he didn’t get there without education; he’s professional, works hard, and pays his taxes. He also has five children.
The group you describe in your first sentence has a heck of a lot of mozlums…lots of kids with multiple *partners,* they call wives, don’t work and are very unintelligent.
Surly, those are the ones you meant?
as for survival, many people in Africa have large numbers of children so there will be someone to take care of them in their old age, because so many of their children die young.
It’s very sad to die without someone to care that you do….as many old people who decided against having kids do these days.