Overpopulation and The False Issue
Let me start by saying that the overwhelming majority of Democrats, liberals, progressives, women’s rights advocates and other forward thinkers, I’d say 99% to 100%, wish there were no abortions needed, sought or performed. There should be open education and prevention programs. Education cures overpopulation. Education stems the spread of disease. Education makes for reasoned and rational choices when it comes to sexuality—in all its varied and natural forms. If given the time and chance, science will provide the means to virtually eliminate a woman having to choose an abortion. Given the time and chance, science will give us the means to voluntarily, as a species, control our numbers and in doing so, save our species from catastrophe and the world’s ecosystem from complete collapse.
That being said, anyone who brings up God’s will and his love for human life simply has to reckon with the fact that the human species, with its over breeding and insatiable appetite for harvestable lands and finite natural resources, is destroying the life-sustaining system of this planet. Global warming will probably get us first and a disease worse than the bird flu is certainly awaiting us; our numbers and our connectivity are breeding it. But, if we get the chance, overpopulation will destroy civilization as we know it and as we envision it to be.
It took only about 35 years for the world population to double to 6 billion in 2005. If it were to double again in another 35 years, we will have a world population of 12 billion by 2041. There are those who say that we’ve already reached the sustainable growth plateau and that the astronomical growth of the last 200 years has started to level off. There are those that say we could have 0% growth by 2023. There are even those that claim there never has been an overpopulation problem and that in effect, overpopulation is a myth. Consider the fact that there are more people alive today than have EVER DIED!
I culled the following scenario from Ishmael (Daniel Quinn) based on the current rate of doubling. Human beings, if unhindered by obstacles of travel, breathable air, food supply, and so on would do the following to the universe in the decades and centuries ahead:
In 35 years we’d fill another planet-- after 70 years, 4 planets would be full—after 105 years, 8 planets would be full-- a billion planets would be full by the year 3000-- by 3300, a hundred billion planets would be full-- 35 years later, another galaxy would be full-- in the year 4000, the planets of a million galaxies would be full-- in the year 5000, all of the planets of a trillion galaxies would be full—in other words, every planet in the universe would be filled with human beings in 3000 years. Marvin Harris calculated that if the population doubles every 20 years instead of the 35 years used above—well, the entire universe would be a solid mass of human protoplasm in fewer than 2000 years! It is clear that human beings do know how to reproduce.
I personally feel that 6 billion human beings are way too many for the resources and the ecosystem of our small and interconnected world. It is certainly too many to sustain the diversity of species that makes for a healthy and naturally balanced system. People alive today will witness, within their lifetimes, the extinction of thousands of species of animals and plants. Young adults and children will witness the end of the wilderness for giraffes, lions, rhinos, tigers, water buffalo, elephants, gorillas and most probably polar bears and wolves. There simply isn’t enough space for these large species to live naturally even now. Can you imagine the implications of another 6 billion human mouths to feed?
I speak now to the Pope and all of the other religious leaders and to the millions of faith based followers who are striving to enact their version of God’s law upon the rest of humanity. Does God want billions to die of starvation, disease and poverty? Does God want a complete breakdown of his ecosystem, because one of his species has overrun all the others and devastated the design? My hope would be that God wants humans to thrive and steward the land and the water and the air, so that generation after generation could be happy and prosperous, living in harmony with one another and with every other species of animal and plant. This natural system was designed after all, by an all knowing, all loving creator.
There is a reason for what the secular humanists would call natural ‘balance’. A fundamentalist Christian might call it ‘intelligent design’. A naturalist/scientist might say something on the order of, ‘whatever you call it—the way it all works, and it does work, is brilliant’.
There are abortions in the natural world every second of every minute. There are child killings and turf murders every second of every minute in the natural world. It is nature’s way of controlling populations of species. It is God’s way. When there are too many deer because man has killed all of the lions, the deer overpopulate and as a result, they starve and die of disease. It is God’s way of controlling this population. The young, the old, and the weak will die first, but many more will die as well. It is the nature of the planet, it is logical and it is God’s way.
Human beings are animals as well. We are subject to the laws of nature. We are subject to the ways of God. It is simply not a matter of saving every human sperm that has impregnated a human egg. It is a question of whether humans can save humanity. Nobody wants abortion. It’s a false issue. I’m assuming that nobody wants human extinction, either. Given the laws of God’s nature, what do you think you should do as a servant of God and a concerned member of the human race?
Should you work to keep young breeders ignorant and unprepared so that their natural chances greatly improve for accidental impregnation and further overpopulation? Or should you act within God’s laws to work to save our garden from overgrazing, lack of water and ultimate desertification?
We are the deer. The difference is that, on our own, we have eradicated the lions and all the other predators except for disease and starvation. While we’re overgrazing, over breeding and saving every fawn, hunger and illness are biding their time in the grass. When we’ve eaten that grass down to the soil, we will find our predators. It is God’s way.
We all live in the same garden. The conservative deer and the liberal deer all breathe the same air, drink the same water and eat the same grass. The difference seems to be that the liberal deer sense the impending doom. This of course, does nothing for the liberal deer, because we live as a species and we die as a species. Knowledge won’t save us if the fat deer, who eat the most grass, force all deer to reproduce unabated, with a whistling attitude of righteousness that stares happily forward at extinction. It is time for all of us to take stock and look at the diminishing supply of grass and the lack of visible predators and react while there’s still time.
If anti abortionists get their way, and it appears now that the Supreme Court is stacked and ready, then the US will be adding thousands more a year to the billions more. Whether we reach the boiling point at 7 billion or at 12 billion or at 15 billion, we’re talking about a hellish world of hunger and overcrowding and a completely decimated ecosystem. These are not days hundreds of years from now. These are our own children and grandchildren. This is the immediate future of humanity. Are the lives of all of the humans to follow us as sacred as every sperm and egg coupling that we save today? Billions and billions will suffer and die just like the lions and deer before them. Our predators are lying in wait.
God’s way is nature’s way and one way or another, our overpopulation, over cultivation and all out war on nature will slam into an intelligent wall of design. With or without un-Godly, manmade restrictions on the human female’s right to her own sexuality, humanity has an approaching date in the court of natural law and will meet its day of reckoning.
Rune Nordsman
www.TruthCourier.com
Let me start by saying that the overwhelming majority of Democrats, liberals, progressives, women’s rights advocates and other forward thinkers, I’d say 99% to 100%, wish there were no abortions needed, sought or performed. There should be open education and prevention programs. Education cures overpopulation. Education stems the spread of disease. Education makes for reasoned and rational choices when it comes to sexuality—in all its varied and natural forms. If given the time and chance, science will provide the means to virtually eliminate a woman having to choose an abortion. Given the time and chance, science will give us the means to voluntarily, as a species, control our numbers and in doing so, save our species from catastrophe and the world’s ecosystem from complete collapse.
That being said, anyone who brings up God’s will and his love for human life simply has to reckon with the fact that the human species, with its over breeding and insatiable appetite for harvestable lands and finite natural resources, is destroying the life-sustaining system of this planet. Global warming will probably get us first and a disease worse than the bird flu is certainly awaiting us; our numbers and our connectivity are breeding it. But, if we get the chance, overpopulation will destroy civilization as we know it and as we envision it to be.
It took only about 35 years for the world population to double to 6 billion in 2005. If it were to double again in another 35 years, we will have a world population of 12 billion by 2041. There are those who say that we’ve already reached the sustainable growth plateau and that the astronomical growth of the last 200 years has started to level off. There are those that say we could have 0% growth by 2023. There are even those that claim there never has been an overpopulation problem and that in effect, overpopulation is a myth. Consider the fact that there are more people alive today than have EVER DIED!
I culled the following scenario from Ishmael (Daniel Quinn) based on the current rate of doubling. Human beings, if unhindered by obstacles of travel, breathable air, food supply, and so on would do the following to the universe in the decades and centuries ahead:
In 35 years we’d fill another planet-- after 70 years, 4 planets would be full—after 105 years, 8 planets would be full-- a billion planets would be full by the year 3000-- by 3300, a hundred billion planets would be full-- 35 years later, another galaxy would be full-- in the year 4000, the planets of a million galaxies would be full-- in the year 5000, all of the planets of a trillion galaxies would be full—in other words, every planet in the universe would be filled with human beings in 3000 years. Marvin Harris calculated that if the population doubles every 20 years instead of the 35 years used above—well, the entire universe would be a solid mass of human protoplasm in fewer than 2000 years! It is clear that human beings do know how to reproduce.
I personally feel that 6 billion human beings are way too many for the resources and the ecosystem of our small and interconnected world. It is certainly too many to sustain the diversity of species that makes for a healthy and naturally balanced system. People alive today will witness, within their lifetimes, the extinction of thousands of species of animals and plants. Young adults and children will witness the end of the wilderness for giraffes, lions, rhinos, tigers, water buffalo, elephants, gorillas and most probably polar bears and wolves. There simply isn’t enough space for these large species to live naturally even now. Can you imagine the implications of another 6 billion human mouths to feed?
I speak now to the Pope and all of the other religious leaders and to the millions of faith based followers who are striving to enact their version of God’s law upon the rest of humanity. Does God want billions to die of starvation, disease and poverty? Does God want a complete breakdown of his ecosystem, because one of his species has overrun all the others and devastated the design? My hope would be that God wants humans to thrive and steward the land and the water and the air, so that generation after generation could be happy and prosperous, living in harmony with one another and with every other species of animal and plant. This natural system was designed after all, by an all knowing, all loving creator.
There is a reason for what the secular humanists would call natural ‘balance’. A fundamentalist Christian might call it ‘intelligent design’. A naturalist/scientist might say something on the order of, ‘whatever you call it—the way it all works, and it does work, is brilliant’.
There are abortions in the natural world every second of every minute. There are child killings and turf murders every second of every minute in the natural world. It is nature’s way of controlling populations of species. It is God’s way. When there are too many deer because man has killed all of the lions, the deer overpopulate and as a result, they starve and die of disease. It is God’s way of controlling this population. The young, the old, and the weak will die first, but many more will die as well. It is the nature of the planet, it is logical and it is God’s way.
Human beings are animals as well. We are subject to the laws of nature. We are subject to the ways of God. It is simply not a matter of saving every human sperm that has impregnated a human egg. It is a question of whether humans can save humanity. Nobody wants abortion. It’s a false issue. I’m assuming that nobody wants human extinction, either. Given the laws of God’s nature, what do you think you should do as a servant of God and a concerned member of the human race?
Should you work to keep young breeders ignorant and unprepared so that their natural chances greatly improve for accidental impregnation and further overpopulation? Or should you act within God’s laws to work to save our garden from overgrazing, lack of water and ultimate desertification?
We are the deer. The difference is that, on our own, we have eradicated the lions and all the other predators except for disease and starvation. While we’re overgrazing, over breeding and saving every fawn, hunger and illness are biding their time in the grass. When we’ve eaten that grass down to the soil, we will find our predators. It is God’s way.
We all live in the same garden. The conservative deer and the liberal deer all breathe the same air, drink the same water and eat the same grass. The difference seems to be that the liberal deer sense the impending doom. This of course, does nothing for the liberal deer, because we live as a species and we die as a species. Knowledge won’t save us if the fat deer, who eat the most grass, force all deer to reproduce unabated, with a whistling attitude of righteousness that stares happily forward at extinction. It is time for all of us to take stock and look at the diminishing supply of grass and the lack of visible predators and react while there’s still time.
If anti abortionists get their way, and it appears now that the Supreme Court is stacked and ready, then the US will be adding thousands more a year to the billions more. Whether we reach the boiling point at 7 billion or at 12 billion or at 15 billion, we’re talking about a hellish world of hunger and overcrowding and a completely decimated ecosystem. These are not days hundreds of years from now. These are our own children and grandchildren. This is the immediate future of humanity. Are the lives of all of the humans to follow us as sacred as every sperm and egg coupling that we save today? Billions and billions will suffer and die just like the lions and deer before them. Our predators are lying in wait.
God’s way is nature’s way and one way or another, our overpopulation, over cultivation and all out war on nature will slam into an intelligent wall of design. With or without un-Godly, manmade restrictions on the human female’s right to her own sexuality, humanity has an approaching date in the court of natural law and will meet its day of reckoning.
Rune Nordsman
www.TruthCourier.com
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