One of today’s popular boogeymen, along with “climate change,” is overpopulation. It was a boogeyman centuries ago, too. The English cleric and scholar Thomas Malthus …
Population Control / Overpopulation Myth
One of today’s popular boogeymen, along with “climate change,” is overpopulation. It was a boogeyman centuries ago, too. The English cleric and scholar Thomas Malthus warned in 1798, “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.” Since then, the 1800 world population of one billion has risen to seven billion. And not surprisingly, the notion of an ever-burgeoning population as a clear and present danger has become a basic supposition, one creating perturbation and shaping policy.
On November 13, 2015 for instance, some celebrated “World Vasectomy Day” and held a “vasectomy-athon” in which men, many Western, trumpeted their newfound sterility. Precisely two weeks before, Bowdoin College associate professor of philosophy Sarah Conley, though doubtless a relativist, was quite absolutist in a Boston Globe op-ed entitled “Here’s why China’s one-child policy was a good thing.” Insisting “there is no moral right to have more than one child,” Conley wrings her hands as she warns that the “most recent estimate from the United Nations says we’ll reach a population of 9.7 billion by 2050” and justifies elimination of reproductive freedom by likening it to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater. It seems the rallying cry “My body, my choice!” only applies to killing children in the womb, not birthing them.
According to a report from Save The Children, it’s estimated that 80,000 people have been killed in Yemen since the war started. Save The Children estimates that 85,000 children alone have died from starvation as a direct result from the ongoing conflict in Yemen. Meaning since the war started in 2014, 165,000 men, women, and children may have been killed in this continuing conflict that has ...
The “Green New Deal” proposed by congressional Democrats is a “recipe for mass suicide” and the “most ridiculous scenario I ever heard,” Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore warned in an exclusive interview with The New American. In fact, Dr. Moore warned that if the “completely preposterous” prescriptions in the scheme were actually implemented, Americans could be forced to turn to cannibalism to avoid starvation — and they ...
A long-stalled effort to strengthen abortion rights in New York became reality Tuesday evening when the Legislature easily approved the measure after Republicans stymied it for years. Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately signed the Reproductive Health Act into law after Democrats pushed its passage for years. The vote Tuesday came on the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade court case in 1973. The Senate passed the measure ...
An estimated 100,000 people — including Vice President Mike Pence — gathered in DC for the annual March for Life. The media, as always, is either outright ignoring the massive march or severely downplaying the impressive size of the crowd. The energy on the mall is outstanding. @March_for_Life pic.twitter.com/dBBtw9CQia — Zachary Kennedy (@ZacharyDKennedy) January 18, 2019 USA Today, the first result when you search for the ...
In sworn testimony, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress last month that his company does not “manually intervene” on any particular search result. Yet an internal discussion thread leaked to Breitbart News reveals Google regularly intervenes in search results on its YouTube video platform – including a recent intervention that pushed pro-life videos out of the top ten search results for “abortion.” The term “abortion” was ...
The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), the Republic of Ireland’s version of Planned Parenthood, will begin aborting babies January 7, reported the Irish Examiner. The legalization of the murderous procedure in the predominantly Catholic nation came after Ireland’s president signed legislation passed in December by Ireland’s parliament — which was responding to a referendum earlier in 2018 by which Ireland’s citizens voted by a two-to-one margin ...
The Canadian equivalent of CNN has shamelessly published a climate “infographic” that suggests the number one thing everyday people can do to help “mitigate” climate change is to stop having children. Pointing to a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, CBC News says there’s actually nothing more effective at combating climate change than for families to have at least one fewer child. The so-called “emissions savings” of having one less child ...
The major U.S. media was missing in action at the United Nations COP24 "climate" summit in Poland, reported The New American's foreign correspondent Alex Newman. Newman also reported on the significance of this conference, which is working to restructure all of human civilization under the guise of saving the climate. Finally, Newman addresses the real agenda behind the summit, which is to centralize power over humanity ...
A shocking new study produced by Brown University finds that between 480,000 and 507,000 people were killed during America’s Post-9/11 Wars. The study examined the three "war on terror" conflicts of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan — the latter an extension of the Afghan war and focus of US drone attacks. The half million figure accounts for both combatant and civilian deaths from direct fighting and war violence, however the number could ...
45 groups signed on to a common letter dated September 11, 2018 addressed to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Alex M. Azar II, wherein the opening paragraph states: We were shocked and dismayed at the news report that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has signed a contract to purchase “fresh” aborted fetal organs from Advanced Bioscience Resources, for the ...
