SARAH WESTALL

AUG 6

 

Population control has been on the minds of humans for centuries. The oldest writings we have from the Sumerians discuss their version of Noah’s Ark but share the gods desire to reduce the population:

The men and women multiplied and after 1200 years the noises of humans began to annoy Enlil, one of the sanctioning gods, who ordered that plagues spread over humanity, decimating the population. After another 1200 years, Enlil sends droughts to reduce the amount of humans. After another 1200 years, Enlil already tired, sends a universal deluge to end humanity. Enki, another of the sanctioning gods, manages to suggest Ziusudra, who enjoyed the longevity of the gods, to build a boat and save as much life as possible.

Ancient Greece also thinned out their populations by not allowing slaves to have children, legalizing infanticide, legalizing abortions and prostitution was not only legal but state sanctioned as a method to control unwanted pregnancies.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle advocated the use of abortion and infanticide to avoid “poverty among the citizens” of Greece. Plato was not as extreme as he did not agree with Aristotle’s arguments which demanded family size controlled by the state and mandatory abortions. But he agreed with Aristotle that immigration rates and birth rates should be controlled by the state.

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Tertullian, an early Christian author (ca. AD 160-220), was one of the first to describe famine and war as factors that can prevent overpopulation. He wrote:

"The strongest witness is the vast population of the earth to which we are a burden and she scarcely can provide for our needs; as our demands grow greater, our complaints against Nature's inadequacy are heard by all. The scourges of pestilence, famine, wars, and earthquakes have come to be regarded as a blessing to overcrowded nations since they serve to prune away the luxuriant growth of the human race."

Eugenics has always been practiced, but it became organized and supported by the elites in the late 1800’s. Scientist Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, first coined the term in his 1883 book “Inquiries into Human Fertility and Its Development”. Galton believed that eugenics could control human evolution and development. His writings also reflects his prejudice ideas about race, class and gender.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also a vocal eugenicist. In a 1921 article, she wrote that, “the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

 

The humanity began to evolve

As society evolves, becomes more knowledgable and more conscious of our fellow human beings, we began to realize that most of the historical thoughts around population control is based in pseudo-science, elitism, and barbarism.

Eugenics has now been universally debunked and infanticide (murdering newborns) is seen for what is is, murder of the innocent by mentally ill parents. Considering there are more parents wanting to adopt infants than the number of infants available to adopt, no baby should ever be killed at birth.

As we have become more knowledgable and have acquired a better understanding of society development, we now know that modernization has brought falling, not rising fertility rates.

A growing number of scientists and researchers now believe that modernization and pro-human policies will produce resource stabilization.

In reality, human fertility and consumption work nothing like this. Affluence and modernization bring falling, not rising fertility rates. As our material circumstances improve, we have fewer children, not more. The explosion of human population over the past 200 years has not been a result of rising fertility rates but rather falling mortality rates. With better public health, nutrition, physical infrastructure, and public safety, we live much longer.

The explosion of human population over the past 200 years has not been a result of rising fertility rates but rather falling mortality rates. With better public health, nutrition, physical infrastructure, and public safety, we live much longer.

Today, in the U.S., Europe, Japan, much of Latin America, and even parts of India, fertility rates are below replacement, i.e., the average number of children born per woman is below two. Much of the rest of the world will likely follow suit over the next few decades. As a result, most demographers project that the human population will peak, and then begin a slow decline, in some cases before the end of this century.

 

It should be concluded that the solution for solving any perceived or real resource issues from too many people on Earth, is not depopulation policies, but more pro-human development policies. Unfortunately, the “elites” and their soldiers from the Ivy league universities are still following pseudo-science, elitism, and barbarism to control and reduce the human population.

We are seeing them stick to the same population reduction solutions that have been implemented by the ancients. In some ways the ancients were more evolved; they at least were honest about their policies being used to control population size. Now the “elites” hide their ulterior agendas behind altruistic reasons. i.e. Abortion rights are women’s rights, war is preserving freedom, there is no cure for cancer, sex changes are beneficial for the mental health of the patient, and big pharma infertility studies in Africa are needed to develop safe drugs.

It is clear that the “elites” are not just about population control, as we know based on the Kissinger papers, the public statements from Bill and Melinda Gates, the World Economic Forum and many others. Medium explained it well:

Population control is, in a broader sense, one of the instruments of social control. It extends ruling-class jurisdiction more directly to the personal sphere, aiming at “full-spectrum dominance” of the developing world. Like laws regulating marriage and sexual behavior, such interventions in the reproduction of labor power are not essential to capitalists but remain desirable as a means of exercising ruling class hegemony over every aspect of the lives of the working people. Population control as such directly targets the bodies and dignity of poor people, conditioning them to believe that life’s most intimate decisions are outside of their competence and control.

“Whenever a theory of overpopulation seizes hold in a society dominated by an elite, then the non-elite invariably experience some form of political, economic, and social repression” (Harvey 2012: 63)

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