Global population decline: Utopian schemes for a Small World

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The report on the Russian population crisis (see Global Watch “Russian Cross”) prompts a look at the issue of a global population decline. While news reports and TV talk shows insist that the world has been overrun with “human pollutants,” actual demographic statistics paint a far different picture. The fact is that on all continents the rate of population growth has declined. For Western nations the decline is close to suicidal. A survey of population data makes clear that Western nations are dying rapidly. Australia provides a good example: Twenty two per cent of Australian women have declined to have children. The result is a fertility rate of 1.7. The replacement rate is 2.1. Among European countries, Italy and Spain have negative population growth. (This reality is a factor of the modern Catholic propensity to practice contraception and abortion at a rate equal to that of non-Catholics.) If current rates of decline are maintained in Europe, the US and Canada, we can expect to find ourselves in the midst of decimated nations. This is information withheld form the public by the major media outlets.

Last year the Pontifical Council on the Family raised a cry of alarm over the hastening decline of the world’s population—particularly Europe. The report points out that the fertility rate indicates that in 51 of 185 countries, (44% of the world population) the birth rate is nearly zero. In 15 countries there are more funerals than births. This statistic does not address the concurrent problem of an aging population where the balance of young and old is tipped toward the elderly. The report of the Pontifical Council noted, “for too long, the majority of the discourses on population have globally spread a false view, according to which the world is a prisoner of an 'exponentially' growing demographic situation, that is, out of control, leading to a 'demographic explosion.' ” After denouncing this “false view” the Council decries the use of international agencies and moneys used “to force many countries to institute Neo-Malthusian policies.”

Add to the “birth dearth” the fact that AIDS is mushrooming across the globe spreading death in its wake, and that euthanasia is winked at, or even legalized, in some nations and you have yet another factor in overall population decline.

When the data is analyzed objectively a question arises: Why do international organizations and institutions continue to promote population control if a population implosion is on the near horizon?

The international institutions and organizations most frequently associated with population control projects include the United Nations population Fund (UNFPA) and International Planned Parenthood Federation. There are dozens of other organizations involved in efforts to constrain population growth, not the least of which are environmental associations and animal protection agencies. Each group has its own reasons for promoting population control and they have formed a network to support one another. Many of these agencies are backed by fat trust funds and corporate grants. The UNFPA is supported by the dues of all member nations of the United Nations. This includes the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, these various organizations have tirelessly promoted population control, often employing the draconian methods of forced sterilizations (100,000 in Peru) and the notorious Chinese “one child” policy.

Less well understood by the general public is that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund also engage in population control. How is that? The typical process is a multilevel approach by “first world nations” who offer economic and development assistance to the “developing world” nations. Some of those levels include education and “health care” programs mandated to accompany the building of roads, schools and hydro-electric power plants. The lending institution frequently demands that sex education programs and “gender equality” programs become part of national curriculum. Health care clinics are told that they must offer condoms and contraceptives. The purpose, say the bankers, is to control population so that the receiving nation can profit from development. The idea is a simple one: poverty leads to more poverty, hence elimination of the poor increases the wealth of a nation.

The reality is far different. Eradication of poverty does not require eradication of people. A nation’s number one resource is its population. Human capital, as it were, is the wealth of nations. The United States experienced growth of economic power parallel to our rise in population. The economic miracle of South Korea is another example of a nation where economic might advanced with a growth in population. When a nation invests in the education and training of its people and adopts a pro-family culture, that nation builds wealth. Human efforts, human creativity and human initiative in problem solving are the source of wealth.

The question remains, then; why do international institutions and agencies push for population control measures on a global scale? The answer is this: Global elites profess a worldview that is in opposition to the Judeo-Christian worldview. The latter believe that man has an inherent dignity that is derived from man “made in the image of God.” No nation or international institution has the right to assault an image of God.

The globalists, however, have an image of paradise achieved by limiting humans. They believe that the optimum population for the planet is one billion people. Simple math demonstrates that by their calculations, we are five billion over the limit. The United Nations held its Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The purpose was to evaluate and mandate global policies for the environment and for development. The conference set in motion various programs that are to protect the environment from human abuse and human by-products, including our exhaled breath, CO2. One of the projects is the Earth Charter. This is a “charter of rights” for the earth, and quite simply, it has new age overtones of earth worship.

The Charter gives to the earth rights that when one reads between the lines, one understands as rights to be free from having to support too many humans. In plain English: Humans are to be subordinated to the earth. Christians, however, see the earth as God outlined in Genesis, that is, that man is to subdue the earth. The earth was made for Man, not the other way around.

Population control is aimed at achieving a Utopian dream: A re-creation of the earth as a paradise made by man rather than as given by God. The struggle now is between these opposing worldviews. Christians must recognize that what is at stake is mounting pressure to accept euthanasia, reduced populations (which translate to anti-family policies at the national level) and global control of resources, such a water.

Our task is to educate ourselves beyond the “junk science” that teaches unproven calamities such as “global warming”, to inform our government representatives of our expectations, and to speak out on all the issues that impact human and family rights.