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Sunday, 20 February 2011
Return of the Population Bomb
Remember a nutjob alarmist named Paul Ehrlich? Back in the early 70's he wrote The Population Bomb to warn us all of the coming food riots. Well, he's back. Or rather, his alarmism is back, and of course the cure is for more of us to voluntarily die.
A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.
The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.
To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said.
The swelling population will exacerbate problems, such as resource depletion, said John Casterline, director of the Initiative in Population Research at Ohio State University.
OMG! We're going to run out of food! Somebody call a press conference!
"More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet," Clay told AFP, urging scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.
Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.
"For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices," said Bongaarts.
"We want to minimize population growth, and the only viable way to do that is through more effective family planning," said Casterline.
Oh yeah, that old bugaboo "Globull Warming" rears it's ugly head too.
These are, of course, the same alarmists who recoil in horror at the idea of genetically modified crops. "Frankenfood" goes against their utopian visions of Sustainable Farming. The reality is that modern biotech can produce enough food to make everyone fat and happy. The only problem is that it offends the sensibilities of well-heeled liberals who congratulate themselves for buying overpriced "locavore" tomatoes from certified organic farmers.
If all our food was produced according to their strictures almost nobody would have enough to eat. We're talking about farming techniques that went out of style in the early 1800s.
But then you realize that the prospect of billions of people starving to death warms the cockles of their pathetic little hearts. The goal isn't just a retread of 1970s Zero Population Growth dogma. No, it's drastic population reduction.
Why else would the eco-terrorists at the World Wildlife Fund be involved? When the people die off the animals can "reclaim" their habitat.
Here's why their solution to a lack of food isn't to find a way to grow more food. Population control means that only the elite will survive. And you can bet that all the panjandrums at conferences like this one definitely count among the elite.
Their message to the rest of us is simple. Stop having babies and die for Gaia.
I have faith in human ingenuity. We already know how to grow enough food.
What we don't know how to do is properly scoff at bogus "experts" who insist
that we don't actually know as much as we do. Eventually Ehrlich was
completely discredited because his predictions were demonstrably false.
His successors will undoubtedly meet the same fate.
Posted at 22:09 by Chris Wysocki
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