In this world a majority of many problems are caused by not having enough...Not
enough time, not enough space, not enough sleep, not enough food, not
enough room, not enough of anything...
If you have room for only two people to live in a small house and then they
have six to seven children (as they do in poorer countries
where they have extremes of poverty) often they do not have the ability to
choose the number of children they will have - This country will end up being overpopulated.
If there is only enough food for two people this means that those two
people will have to share that food between themselves and six to seven
children they bear....In these countries quite often the children
starve, suffer greatly, and die....In these countries often there are
great wars and plagues because there is not enough.
What causes this is too
many children are being born. The reason this is happening is people in these countries cannot afford to prevent all
these children from being born, because they do not have the means or
education to do so...
We can go to bed every night with food, and shelter...because our system has
provided for us to be able to choose how many children we want to have
or not have. We have the things we have because we are able to choose how many
children we have. But in poorer countries they cannot do that...for
many do not have the benefits of good food, shelter, and and education which would
help them to learn how to stop having so many children.
At one time we needed to have a large number of children because the number of infant deaths were extremely high...Back then a person might have had a great
many children and still not have any children survive because of infant mortality. But with the
advent modern medical practises, our knowledge of disease prevention, modern sanitation practises, and modern facilities we
have decreased infant and child mortality to where our populations have
steadily grown.
To kill children is considered to be a terrible thing...but to kill
adults is no different. Often wars are caused by the overcrowding,
starvation, and illnesses that poverty and overpopulation bring to
the world. This overpopulation may end in either plagues or in wars which kill numerous childern and adults.
The empowered Nations often say it is too expensive and difficult to educate those countries and people such that they will not suffer so much any
more...and such that they can live in a better world and place..so that
they can raise their children in a better world and place...Where their
children can go to school, have a full stomach, and not suffer so greatly. Often they say we can send them more food (which causes more children to be born who will suffer)but we cannot afford to educate them so they can have a better
life and way to live...
But we can no longer afford to turn a blind eye, nor to feed the
problem...for as countries become more populated they will move over
into our countries where they will have to spend a few generations
learning what we have learned. The plagues that happen in their
countries will come here to infect/inflict/afflict us and make us ill. Also we will see
and hear of their suffering which will also draw us in to help or to
fight the wars caused by such suffering we have fed. We cannot afford to not help, to not educate, to not care...for
we cannot afford a world of such unrest and suffering anymore...for our
world can only support so much life...
There is an experiment which is done by all young college genetic students.
In this experiment six fruit flies are put into a closed system with
fresh air flow. Three are female and three are male. As the experiment
goes along the fruit fly population increases exponentially...almost
straight up in a curve pattern. Before all the food and water is used
up...all of a sudden all of the fruit flies die. The reason is they
have contaminated their closed system.
We have alot of problems right now with wars, plagues, and pollution in
the world. We can make some different choices that will help all of
us...so all of us can survive. We have more intelligence than fruit
flies in a closed system like our world is. Someone made the rules and
someone can improve them. We can all make choices for the better. We
are free will agents capable of independent thoughts beyond action and
reaction.
Two generations ago my family came from a world outside of the US. They
had seven children. The next generation some had seven some had two.
The third generation some had one some had five. My family we have only
had two children from four children... And two of us have chosen to not
have children. This is simply because we wanted more for our children (if we had them) than what we currently see offered to a world where there just is
not enough because there are just too many people.
People in the world are starving and suffering. It is a terrible
terrible thing. One country went to teach another country how to
increase its crop yield by 75%. The population went up by 75%. Then
there were that many more people who went to bed hungry every night.
I am a believer in a supreme and just being/power of goodness. I try to
teach people that we were created with free will and choice along with the
ability to understand that. All we have to do is listen...It is not
noble to continue to feed the bodies of the poor and not their
minds...for the greatest wealth of all is knowledge.
In the third world countries the average number of children born is 6.5 per family
whereas
in the developing areas of the world where people have advantages of
education they
are decreasing in numbers. It is not only unwise to not help these
countries who
are having difficulties moving into the modern world it is also very
very unsafe
for the major way problems of overpopulation are often controlled
are by warfare,
disease, and plague...all of which reach into our populations. This is
how world
population was controlled for many years by our civilizations until
we learned
how to control population growth. (E.g. European Hun and Barbarian mass
invasions.)
Population
An estimated 11 percent of the planet's land surface-4.6 million square miles, an area larger than the United States and Mexico combined-has suffered moderate to severe land degradation since 1945, diminishing its capacity to grow crops and other vegetation. Every year farmers are forced to abandon up to 27,000 square miles of farmland, enough to equal West Virginia, because they cannot make a living on it. About one fourth of the world's population depends on fuelwood that is cut faster than it can grow back.
Water is increasingly scarce in certain regions of the world, as populations that are doubling within two or three decades must share finite supplies of renewable water resources. Based on the generally accepted standard that a country needs a bare minimum of 654 cubic yards per inhabitant per year to develop economically, 11 nations faced such scarcity in 1990. By the year 2025, the UN projects, that number will nearly double.
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