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09-06-06 Population Policy Common Sense in-gods-name.blogspot.com 09-06-06 Population Policy Common Sense in-gods-name.blogspot.com
Population Policy Common Sense
Human Rights, Peace and Social Justice:Exponential Functions & The Laws of Sustainability
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”Buckminster Fuller Law“What people think is what they do. Its corrolary: To change what people do,change what they think.”Quinn’s Guerrilla Civilisation Law“If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, peoplewith a new vision. It will not be saved by old minds with new programs.”Ishmaels Story of B LawInsincere Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisyOliver Wendell Holmes ‘Buck v. Bell’ Law
Community Problems
Is your Community/Nation experiencing any of these Problems….
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Crime and Violence,
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Unemployment and Poverty,
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Food Shortages and Food Price Increases,
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Inflation and Cost of Living Increases,
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Political Instability and Loss of Political Freedoms,
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Conformist Politically Correct Fascism Trends
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Vanishing Species, Garbage and Pollution,
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Urban Sprawl, Traffic Jams & Toxic Waste,
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Depletion of Energy, Water & Food Resources,
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Increased Energy (Oil, Petrol and Gas) Prices,
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Air and Water Pollution…. ????If I told you that these are not the problems…They are Only the Symptoms of Ecological Overshoot…
The Singular Root Cause of these Overshoot Symptoms is???
(a)
Need Bigger Government with More Programs
(b)
Not Enough ‘Economic Growth’ to Create New Jobs…
(c)
Gods Wrath for Evil Greedy Ignorant Mankind(d)Overpopulation colliding with Scarce & Finite Resources
Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from microscopicto global,Whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way,Aided, assisted, or advanced, by having larger populationsAt the local level, the state level, the national level, orglobally?
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09-06-06 Population Policy Common Sense in-gods-name.blogspot.com 09-06-06 Population Policy Common Sense in-gods-name.blogspot.com
Population Quotes:
“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In itspresence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct.”
E.O. Wilson
 
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of ourdomesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-likein our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
 Arnold Joseph Toynbee
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in afinite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Boulding
“'Sustainable growth' is an oxymoron”
 Albert Bartlett
“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignitycannot survive [overpopulation]. Convenience and decencycannot survive [overpopulation]. As you put more and morepeople onto the world, the value of life not only declines, itdisappears.”
Isaac Asimov 
“What is the greater danger - nuclear warfare or the populationexplosion? The latter absolutely! To bring about nuclear war,someone has to DO something; someone has to press a button. Tobring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation,anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values-there is noneed to do anything. We need only do nothing except -- breed.And how easy it is to do nothing.”
Isaac Asimov 
Kenneth Boulding’s Population Growth Theorems:“The Dismal Theorem”
If the only ultimate check on the growth of population is misery andstarvation; then the population will grow until it is miserable enough to stopits growth.
“The Utterly Dismal Theorem”
This theorem states that any technical improvement can only relieve miseryfor a while, for so long as misery is the only check on population, the[technical] improvement will enable population to grow, and will soonenable more people to live in misery than before. The final result of [technical] improvements, therefore, is to increase the equilibriumpopulation which is to increase the total sum of human misery.
“Moderately Cheerful Form of the Dismal Theorem”:
If something else, other than misery and starvation, can be found which willkeep a prosperous population in check, the population does not have togrow until it is miserable and starves, and it can be stably prosperous.Boulding continues with ‘Until we know more, the Cheerful Theoremremains a question mark. Misery and starvation we know will do the trick,and is the only sure fire automatic method of bringing population to anequilibrium. …. The major priority is a world campaign for the reduction of birth rates. This is more important than any program of foreign aid andinvestments. Indeed, if it is neglected, all programs of aid and investmentwill be ultimately self-defeating and will simply increase the amount of human misery.’The question then becomes do you want to:
(a)
Rely on misery and starvation to wake you up to the importance of holding our country’s population growth in check; or
(b)
Rely on something else, like for example ---– education about (i)voluntary loving procreation of smaller and loving self sufficientfamilies, based upon loving and committed family values; and (ii)how and why to live in accordance to the laws of sustainiability,because you value your children and grand children’s future, andwant to leave them a future that is not filled with misery and
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starvation –--- to keep your community or nations population fromgrowing; and to reap the benefits of a stable zero growthpopulation, in balance with the ecological environments carryingcapacity?
Population Growth Silence: Qui Bono: Who Benefits?
Who benefits from the Silence on the issues of Population and EconomicGrowth’?According to the Sixth Law of Sustainability: The benefits of populationgrowth and growth of the rates of consumption of resources (economicgrowth) accrue to a few; the costs of population growth and rate of consumption of resources (economic growth) are borne by all of society.Furthermore:A) Individuals who benefit from economic and population growthwill continue to exert strong pressures supporting and encouragingboth population growth and growth in rates of consumption of resources.B) The individuals who promote growth are motivated by therecognition that growth is good for them. In order to gain publicsupport for their goals, they must convince people that populationgrowth and growth in the rates of consumption of resources, arealso good for society.
Politicians: Economic and Population Growth:
When last did you hear a politician worry about ‘economic growth’; andwhen last did you hear that politician tell you that ‘economic growth’
requires
:A)Population growth (more consumers);
B)
An increase (growth) in the rate of consumption of resources(namely a growth in the consumption of all resources from water, toarable land, to energy, to food; all of which are the inputs to the‘consumer products’, etc)?But you may think – perhaps politicians don’t know that population growthcauses crime, violence and destabilized communities and nations; perhapsthey are just ignorant.
Politicians Silence: A Conspiracy of Silence?
Center for Population and Security: www.population-security.org
1.
National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200):Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S.Security and Overseas Interests, April 1974
:
a.
“... World population growth is widely recognized withinthe Government as a current danger of the highestmagnitude calling for urgent measures.”
[P194]
 b.
“... it is of the utmost urgency that governments now recognize the facts and implications of population growth,determine the ultimate population sizes that make sense for their countries and start vigorous programs at once toachieve their desired goals.”
[P15]
c.
“... population factors are indeed critical in, and oftendeterminants of, violent conflict in developing areas.Segmental (religious, social, racial) differences, migration,rapid population growth, differential levels of knowledgeand skills, rural/urban differences, population pressureand the spatial location of population in relation toresources -- in this rough order of importance -- all appear to be important contributions to conflict and violence...Clearly, conflicts which are regarded in primarily politicalterms often have demographic roots. Recognition of theserelationships appears crucial to any understanding or  prevention of such hostilities.”
[P66]
d.
“Where population size is greater than available resources,or is expanding more rapidly than the available resources,there is a tendency toward internal disorders and violence
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