Comments on: Curbing the Myth of Overpopulation to Fight Poverty

By: Ms Swan

Ms Swan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:33:32 +0000

How many children a woman wants to have should be her informed choice, exercised without coercion or manipulation of any kind.

By: Lorna Mc

Lorna Mc — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:26:31 +0000

I find in reading those sites that say that population problems are a myth that their evidence is very sparse and inconclusive. Recently I read Book 1 of the free e-book series “In Search of Utopia” (http://andgulliverreturns.info), it blasts their lack of evidence relative to their calling overpopulation a myth. The book, actually the last half of the book, takes on the skeptics in global warming, overpopulation, lack of fresh water, lack of food, and other areas where people deny the evidence. I strongly suggest that anyone wanting to see the whole picture read the book, at least the last half.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:35:32 +0000

Why are people like Nicholas Eberstadt so against improving global human population density? If it’s just for religious reasons? If so, he is spreading a very cruel ideology that is hurting a lot of people and destroying our planet.

Mr Eberstadt is wrong to site Japan and Holland as being, “prosperous but poor in resources”. Both these examples have very fertile soil which enabled these nations to prosper. The firtility of the soil and the abundance of fresh water is no comparision to Africa. Today the wealth of wealthy nations like Japan and Holland enables them to purchase resources from all over the world. Worth noting that this also gives them a false sense of security in the face of global environmental collapse. For example, fish stocks around the world are being wiped out regularly but wealthy nations like Japan and Holland are able to worry little about these collapses and simply purchase other fish from other stocks that are not yet decimated.

There have never been more humans living on the African continent, and on this planet, than there are at this minute. Since western intervention began in Africa the human population there has exploded and continues to expand at an unprecedented rate. Western governments and NGOs have helped Africa overcome many causes of death, which is wonderful, but ideological intervention has meant we did nothing to help them with the explosion in their population numbers that resulted from our intervention. We fail to realise that if you’re going to interfere with one end of the scale (death rates) then you’re going to have to intervene at the other end (birth rates) to avoid disaster.

The land could barely support them before but today many African nations contain so many people there is absolutely no possibility they will ever achieve self-sufficiency. The food and medical assistance that the west has been providing, while denying family planning assistance, has now created a situation where hundreds of millions of people have absolutely no chance of surving without outside assistance. These people are now totally dependent on foreign aid and everyday their populations grow larger still putting prosperity further and further out of reach.

If we want to help these people – genuinely help these people – the very first step that must be taken is to help them stabilise their population growth. Any other assistance carried out in the absence of this, is an absolute compete waste of time, effort, money and resources because next year there will be millions more that need help with less and less chance of ever reaching self-sufficiency.

This is a very serious matter. People like Mr. Eberstadt need to try hard and look beyond their cloud of ideology and superstition and get a handle on what’s really going on before it’s too late.

By: Clement

Clement — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:39:50 +0000

For Africa to crawl out of poverty, good governance must first all be realized. Otherwise all the efforts being done by different organisations will not achieve anything in the presence of dictators and corrupt leaders. On a positive note, it is important to point out that some countries (Botswana, Mozambique) are doing well in the area of good governance.

By: curt elliott

curt elliott — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:40:35 +0000

Outstanding article,,, my environment professor is going to enjoy my abstract on this article

By: Terry Melanson

Terry Melanson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:26:56 +0000

If you haven’t already seen it, you may be interested in this:
Collection of News Group postings on Maurice Strong

It’s from the ’90s back in the Usenet days. It’s quite thorough.

By: Betty Paulsen

Betty Paulsen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:05:24 +0000

Excellent article. More people should be aware also that Maurice Strong, a Marxist and staunch advocate of very limited world population, was advisor to Kofi Annan, when he was the head of the United Nations. It seems that the poor and helpless are always targeted for extinction by the rich and powerful. It stunned me to learn that 44 million American babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. While we are all apalled by death of 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, everyone vowed never again. But what is this?? Again the helpless put to death by those who think that their lives are more important. This new administration seems bent on mass murder when pushing for abortion, late-term abortions, and stem cell research. The new stimulus package now will have the Federal government making our health choices. Tom Daschle’s memo when he thought he was going to be the new health czar, stated that “old folks ought to consider forgoing new procedures in favor of the young!!!” He ought to re-think that inasmuch he “ain’t no spring chicken” himself. It seems to me that human life ought to be more sacred than it is to politicians.