Posted on 05/12/2021 6:06:10 AM PDT by SJackson
Last week, the left’s war on procreation was headline news.
In the April 29th British edition of Vogue, Nell Frizzell wrote a pean to population control: “Is Having a Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?” – a shameless piece of virtue signaling.
Frizzell confessed that when she was pregnant, she “worried feverishly about the strain on the Earth’s resources that another Western child would add.”
The author went on to agonize about the amount of electricity her child would use in his lifetime, the food he would consume and what it would take to grow it – and how the future consumer would add to air pollution, global warming and depleted resources.
It was painful to read and depressing to contemplate – that someone so indoctrinated in the cult of Carbon Footprints can display their ignorance in the mass media.
Then there was the news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, America’s Woke power couple, are getting a divorce. Unfortunately, the work of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will continue. With $43.3 billion in assets (larger than the economies of most countries) the Foundation is dedicated to making the world a more barren place.
Its target isn’t Western children but kids in Africa, which, in a way, makes sense. Africa is the only continent with above-replacement fertility. In conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund, the Gates Foundation sponsored a series of international conferences pushing population control, including abortion.
At one in Addis Ababa in 2013, there was, according to UNFPA, “a focus on universal access to reproductive health (code for abortion and government-sponsored contraception), especially for young people and other vulnerable groups.”
Bill’s interest in young people was reflected in his friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, already convicted of soliciting sex from minors when the two first met in 2011.
Along with the UN and International Planned Parenthood, the Gates Foundation is dedicated to eliminating safeguards for unborn children. Melinda believes that until women “have the power not to have children,” life will not improve in emerging nations.
In an “Open Letter to Melinda Gates,” Nigerian pro-life activist and biomedical researcher Obianuju Ekeocha laments: “We are thirsty and they give us condoms. We are hungry and they offer us contraceptive pills. We are sick and they offer us the most modern techniques of abortion…. We are impoverished and they offer us sexual liberation!”
If the billions that Bill and Melinda and their Good Club friends like Ted Turner and George Soros pump into population control were spent on clean water, better nutrition and maternal health care, the condition of Africans would be immeasurably improved. But then they’d be buying life, when what they want is death.
Strip away the humanitarian bombast and we’re left with a brutal reality: The billionaire lefties of the world want fewer Africans. That Africans are still having large families, with polar ice caps supposedly melting and super-storms brewing, offends their sensibilities. Prince Harry is anxious about African population growth infringing on animal habitats. Cheetahs si; children no?
On another front, it looks like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is finally going to do something about the most pro-abortion president in our history (who White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki shamelessly refers to as “a devout Catholic”) at their June meeting.
In his first day in office, Biden repealed the Mexico City Policy (blocking U.S. aid to foreign NGOs promoting or performing abortions). Now, the Hyde Amendment (prohibiting federal funding of abortion domestically) is in his sights. Calling Joe a “devout Catholic” is like calling a Jew who eats bacon cheeseburgers on Yom Kippur “observant.”
The Gateses, the Vogue writer and Biden’s handlers are all neo-Malthusians -- disciples of Paul Ehrlich, the much-discredited prophet of over-population.
After visiting Calcutta in the 1960s, and based on his extensive study of insect life, Ehrlich wrote “The Population Bomb” in 1968, which forecast worldwide famine in the 1970s. If you missed it, you aren’t alone. The Bomb blew up in Ehrlich’s face, like an exploding cigar.
As economist Julian Simon demonstrated in “The Ultimate Resource,” population growth leads to more resources, not less. Rising prices spur exploration and the discovery of new processes to use resources more efficiently.
If population growth leaves a nation stuck in poverty, why are China and India (with the world largest populations) booming? Why did the Industrial Revolution first occur in Britain, which experienced unprecedented population growth in the 18th and early 19th centuries, instead of Greenland?
While environmental activists view more people as more mouths to feed, others see them as more hands to produce and more brains to innovate.
Despite this reality, the Malthusians are having an undeniable impact. Worldwide fertility rates (the number of children the average woman will have in her lifetime) are falling fast. Sometime in this century, we will get into population decline, perhaps even population freefall.
Replacement fertility is approximately 2.1. Globally, fertility has fallen precipitously, from 4.7 in 1950 to 2.4 today. In the European Union, the average fertility rate is 1.55. In the United State, it dropped from 3.55 during the baby boom years to around 1.9.
That’s why the population-controllers are targeting Africa, the last stronghold of robust fertility.
Overpopulation is a myth. Population decline could soon be a reality. Then it will be a question of who’s left to generate the power, grow the crops and take care of the thousand and one tasks essential to keep society functioning.
We’ll need Fizzell’s child, and his descendants, to help keep the lights on.
China has set up shop in Africa.
So the “For the children” crowd shoots themselves in the OTHER foot? WOW! and ...
God have mercy on the evil sinners, who have rejected Him and worship themselves.
Imagine a world where Bill and Melinda Gates zombie kids are trick or treaters on Halloween with transparent jab needles provided by BIG PHARMA to collect the candy in. Be enough to scare me out of my house. : )
/twilight zone
The global economy of western civilization depends on growth. That growth depends on an ever increasing population. If it is going to collapse, you want to be prepared.
Maybe this is why Gates is buying so much farmland.
https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/
Shame on birthing persons. Shame shame. Or, we could end up with “Logan’s Run.”. 💉😷🐂💨💩
“Logan’s Run.”
LOL, I was just thinking of that.
US fertility is much lower than 1.9
A population decline is baked into the cake. Only question is how much.
Those vogue editors will end up like the aging feminists and gays in my neighborhood — with only their dogs to keep them company when they get old.
She’s oblivious to the fact that her own mind is polluted with nonsense! She should not be allowed to write with anything sharper than a few dull Crayons.
“Is Having A Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?”
No. That was an easy question.
My response to those that see population as a problem: If you believe there are too many people on the planet - you should volunteer to be part of the solution.
Hate to say it, but they won. The West is pretty much out of the kid business and literally the ONLY WAY to get back into that business would be for government to give incentives (big incentives).
So, checkmate: The Left wants the West to vanish, so they’re happy to see birth rates plummet; The Right wants government having nothing to do with families, so they’re willing to tolerate plummeting birth rates.
So, game over, no more West. Just a matter of time before the Third World extinguishes us, once and for all.
Pretty much wipe out FReepers. And pedo joe and epsteens pal billy boy gates. Because, as we all know, folks under 30 KNOW EVERYTHING.
Procreation by Whites, is what they mean. It’s already happening to Whites, so they should temper their enthusiasm a bit.
These individuals favor any kind of procreation, as long as it isn’t by Whites.
Hopefully the Left, Woke swine will hate themselves out of existence.
LOL, I know. While you gain certain rights at 18, and all your legal rights at 21, really don’t think I hit my “maturity until I was in my 30s. And sometimes I still wonder in my 50s. I’m still learning. According to my teenagers you would think I don’t know jack about jack.
The pure evil satanic population control movement has three primary pillars
Abortion
Contraception
Vaccines
They run record worldwide for dozens of years using vaccines to forcibly sterilized people
I believe all forms of contraception are evil ; especially the pill
That subject is somewhat debatable. If you want to wear a plastic bag over yer willie. go for it
The other two very very evil satanic population control my chairs are not acceptable and must be fought everywhere
Good! Let’s hope the left goes extinct but the reality is that the leftists breed their own and really want the blacks from America to Africa to keep the population down.
Hey! Americans, don’t have any more kids. Kids are bad. Oh wait. Let’s open the borders and bring in every body else’s kids. Yeah that’s the ticket.
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