Overpopulation is a myth

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

… Imagine that every family on Earth, I repeat, each, was given a house and a garden with a fence and a gate. In this case, we will all fit on the territory of, say, a state like Texas. One. Everything…

People started talking about overpopulation not so long ago. The first to do this in 1798 was the English vicar Thomas Robert Maltes (we call him Malthus), who imagined himself to be a mathematician and wrote a whole essay on this matter. He considered that redundancy in production does not lead to an increase in the standard of living, but stupidly to an increase in the number of eaters. The conclusion he made is no less sad: by 1890, the world will end up with food. Therefore, he continued his progressive thought, before it is too late, it is necessary to get rid of human ballast (which is now fashionable to call "biomaterial", although the modern sages meant biometrics, but oh well). The twentieth century has come, but the food has not ended …

But the idea did not die either …

In 1968, the banner of the struggle against humanity was picked up this time by an "American" scientist named Paul and by the name of Erlich (his mother was Rosenberg, however, Ruth, they write reference books), who served as professor of biology at Stanford University. By the way, he is still alive. He then concluded that a fifth of humanity will die (or must die if the rest of the world wants to live) from hunger by the end of the 1970s. As they say, we are waiting, sir …

Both of these outbursts of horror led to … huge donations to various mushrooming foundations for reproduction, birth control, abortion, and the like.

Let's digress for a moment from our excursion into the history of the theory of overpopulation and look at the reality around us. About which, oddly enough, we do not have the slightest idea. Here are some examples.

Suppose there are indeed 7,000,000,000 of us. Is it a lot or a little? Have you been to Moscow? Maybe you even have the imprudence to live in it? Then it’s easier for you to imagine what I’ll say now: if Moscow is divided into square meters (that is, you can stand on this and sit comfortably if you wish), then 10,000,000,000 people can easily fit within the Moscow Ring Road. In other words, 3 billion more than lives in the whole world, according to frightening information, it is not known how and who considered the "scientists". If you need a different scale to understand the inconsistency of our ideas with reality, imagine that every family on Earth, I repeat, each, was given a house and a garden with a fence and a gate. In this case, we will all fit on the territory of, say, a state like Texas. One. Everything.

Now let's try to think. I mean with my head. Where does the overpopulation come from, or even that terrible growth with which they constantly frighten us, forcing us to eat all kinds of chemistry, "because nature cannot feed enough for everyone"?

Men do not know how to give birth. So far, only women know how to give birth. This means that solely to maintain the population in the state in which it does not decrease, each - hear, each - woman should give birth to two children, for herself and for that guy. Do you know a lot of women today who have children at all? No, of course, there are two, and even more, but at best with one, or even with an iPhone instead of a family.

Finally, if you have read this far, then as a last argument in support of the views of our shepherds with beaters and dogs, you will say, well, yes, probably, we are dying out here in Europe (by the way, our neighbors are not dying out, they say, only Albania), but there is a huge Asia, the Chinese are different, the Indians, they only do there that they are born …

Have you been to China? Are there many people there? It seems that yes. Any large city is like Moscow, sorry for the comparison. 11-12 million inhabitants. Great, but there are only ten such cities in China. Well, let it be more than a dozen. And let each have not 12, but all 20 million inhabitants. A simple arithmetic operation shows that the sum is only 200 million. Was not, even 250! Where are the rest? In the village? You will rush across China by train and see for yourself. Will you find many villages there? There is no one there. The farm is at its best. The Chinese, of course, will never refute the myths about their large numbers - they are so calmer: let all sorts of European monkeys think that the horde will come and shower them with hats. There is no horde. Not now, not then, in the XIII century.

Moreover, if you do not believe me, but still think that the east is not only a delicate matter, but also a large one, look at the official statistics. Today, contrary to comrades Meltes and Erlhu, the mothers and fathers there have been costing an average of two and a half children per family for more than a dozen years. By comparison, in the 1960s, Bangladesh was considered the most prolific Asian country with its five and a half children. Today they are firmly in step with India and China - two and a half children and not a half more. At the same time, their life expectancy has grown everywhere from 50 to 70 years, on average.

Then you can indulge in long rants about the reasons for such tendencies, to realize that the new feudal lords are driving the people to cities where there is no place or nature, where it is cramped and not rich, where with three children, maybe you will turn around, but somehow I don’t want to, so the indicators are crawling down. This is not my task. I just wanted to demonstrate almost on my fingers that the reality around us is not at all the same as it is drawn to us, but better or worse and why, let everyone decide for himself. Well, someone whose iPhone is broken or the electricity is cut off, and he has time to think.