Thursday, February 25, 2021

The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis - Foundation for Economic Education

The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis - Foundation for Economic Education
The world is not in danger of being overpopulated, so why do so many insist it is?
  • "...In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
  • Bernie Sanders recently vowed to support "educating everyone on the need to curb population growth" as a response to climate change.
  • Circa 1900, influential intellectuals in Europe and the U.S. voiced concerns about uncontrolled procreation causing a supposed decline in the quality of human beings. 
  • Today, similar groups voice concerns about uncontrolled population growth and resource consumption causing a decline in the quality of the environment…Today’s green advocates brandish images of an overrun, dying planet.
...In the past 20 years, “the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty” has fallen by half. 
Rosling adds that already the “majority of the world population live in middle-income countries.”
When feverish dreams of doom are used to justify controlling the lives of others, restricting personal and economic freedom, expect more poverty and environmental degradation with real overpopulation like that of North Korea. 
It is capitalism and freedom that lift humanity out of poverty, vanquish overpopulation, and offer a sustainable future...Read all.

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