China's One-Child Policy and Western Population Controllers, the UN,

Population Research Institute ^ | 08.12.03 | Steve Mosher

[Coleus]

Dear Colleague:
 
Ideas have consequences. With a recent surge in media coverage relating to China's one-child policy, it is important to understand the origins of that barbaric program which I first documented in 1979-80. It all began with the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth hoax of the early seventies. A computer simulation of population growth and ecological collapse convinced China's ruling elite to embark on a radical program to cut in half the number of people in China. The population controllers and their radical environmentalist sidekicks bear a moral responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people in China. The infamous one-child policy is their baby.
 
Steven Mosher
President
 
PRI Weekly Briefing
12 August 2003
Vol. 5/ No. 23


China's One-Child Policy and Western Population Controllers
By Steve Mosher
 
Population control was not imposed on China by the West, as it has been imposed on smaller, weaker countries. Not only did western-funded organizations like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and others lend China's one-child policy enthusiastic support but, as recent research makes clear,  the intellectual impetus for the policy came from the West.(1) Vaporous Sixties ideas about population growth and resource depletion had explosive
real-world consequences years later and half a world away. The core ideas underlying the one-child policy, it turns out, came from Western "science," and more precisely from the notorious 1974 Club of Rome study which asserted that we were breeding ourselves to extinction.

The Club of Rome sponsored a computer simulation, carried out by a group of MIT-based systems engineers, called "The Limits to Growth." Released with great fanfare, the study predicted that, if population growth and resource consumption were allowed to continue unchecked, the world would come to an end by about 2070.(2) The study was soon shown to be a hoax, with even the Club of Rome disowning it. Its primary purpose, said the president of the Club, had been to "jolt" people into taking the overpopulation problem seriously.
 
But the stage was set for systems control specialist, Song Jian, who worked for China's state-owned defense industry. Visiting Europe in 1978, Song "happened to learn about the application of systems analysis theory by European scientists to the study of population problems with a great success." According to him, "British scientists contended that Britain's population of 56 million had greatly exceeded the sustaining capacity of ecosystem of the [United] Kingdom. They argued Britain's population should
be gradually reduced to 30 million, namely, a reduction by nearly 50 percent . . . I was extremely excited about these documents and determined to try the method of demography."(3)
 
When Song Jian returned to China, he regurgitated the simulation's scary scenarios of ecological devastation, applying these specifically to China: "The vegetable cover has been progressively removed so that only about 12 per cent is forested . . . the grass-cover, too, has been shrinking each year and the deserts have tended to expand . . . These developments are threatening ultimately to destroy the ecosystem which supports human life." Song drew a similar conclusion: "The capacity of the land . . . does not permit excessive increases in population. This is quite obvious."(4) He reinforced his rhetoric with eye-catching charts showing China's population remaining low for 4,000 years, then spiking up terrifyingly to 1 billion by 1980.(5) No mention was made of dramatic declines in the birth rate in the seventies.(6)
 
Other Chinese experts jumped into the debate, arguing that not only China's ecology but also its economy was collapsing under the weight of its gargantuan population. Nothing less was at stake than the country's drive for wealth and global power, warned Vice Premier Chen Muhua in the pages of the People's Daily: "In order to realize the Four Modernizations, we must control population growth in a planned way."(7)
 
Once the Chinese leadership had been, to use Club of Rome terminology, "jolted" into accepting the idea that population growth was sabotaging the nation's modernization, they were ripe for a radical solution. It was Song Jian, armed with a computer simulation right out of the pages of The Limits to Growth, who offered one.
 
The computer simulation presented by the Song group to Chinese leaders-perhaps the first they had ever seen-was met with awe. Scientific and technological modernization, named by Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping the most important of his Four Modernizations, was now paying off. China's communist leadership had few qualms about regulating the fertility of its subjects, and Song's insistence that Western "science" left them "no other choice" made their decision easy. When Song's study was later published in the People's Daily on 7 March 1980, it was edited to read that allowing more than one child per family would be "disadvantageous to our country's four modernizations . . . and to the raising of the people's standard of living." The one-child-per-couple policy, which would shrink the population over time, was described as "a comparatively ideal scheme for solving our country's population problem."(8)
 
Publication in the official party organ, the People's Daily, meant that the policy had received the imprimatur of the Communist Party, and was therefore beyond further discussion. Six months later, in mid-September 1980, the one-child policy was formally ratified by the National People's Congress. Since then it has been set in stone. On this terrible altar hundreds of millions of mothers and children have suffered and died,
sacrificed to a scientific fraud.
 
The Party, for its part, was happy to blame China's "overlarge population" for all of China's problems and backwardness, since this helped distract the people from its own errors of the preceding three decades. Population growth became an all-purpose villain in the official press, blamed for everything from declines in labor productivity to sagging economic growth. If only you wouldn't have so many children, the Communist Party continues to chide the people even today, we could achieve wealth, power and glory
for China in a few years.
 
The population controllers claim to be proud of what China's one-child policy has "accomplished." They should be. It is their baby.

ENDNOTES

1. "Demography in China: From Zero to Now," Yuan H. Tien, Population Index 47(4):683-710; "China's Strategic Development Initiative," Tien, Praeger: New York, 1991.
2. "The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind," D.H. Meadows et al., Universe Books: New York, 1972.
3. "Systems Science and China's Economic Reforms," Song Jian, in "Control Science and Technology Development," Yang Jiachi, ed., Pergamon: Oxford, 1986; Pp. 1-8.
4. "Population Development: Goals and Plans," Song Jian, in "China's Population: Problems and Prospects," Liu Zhen, Song Jian et al., eds. New World Press: Beijing, 1981; Pp. 25-31. 5. Song, 1981; p.26.
6. Chinese figures of the time showed that the years 1971-79 saw the natural increase rate fall by half, from 23.4 to 11.7, and the crude birth rate decline by almost as much, from 30.7 to 17.9. Tien, p. 683.
7. "In Order to Realize the Four Modernizations, We Must Control Population Growth in a Planned Way," Chun Muhua, People's Daily (Renmin Ribao), 11 August 1979, p. 2.
8. "Concerning the Issue of Our Country's Objective in Population Development," Song Jian, Tain Xueyuan, Li Guangyuan and Yu Jingyuan, People's Daily (Renmin Ribao), 7 March 1980, p. 5.
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Steve Mosher is the president of Population Research Institute, a
non-profit organization dedicated to debunking the myth that the world is
overpopulated.

[Coleus]

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• "In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau Published in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

[At _War_With_Liberals]

" Released with great fanfare, the study predicted that, if population growth and resource consumption were allowed to continue unchecked, the world would come to an end by about 2070"

The environmentalists predict the same end of the world, also based on junk science. Since it has become a large political movement, the fact that their theories are absurd do not seem to matter. At least the population theory was exposed as a fraud.

[Coleus]

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[At _War_With_Liberals]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1994/vo10no21.htm

The MO of the UN:

"The acceptance of this premise is a significant victory for the socialist worldview: If population growth creates a "crisis" exceeding the remedial abilities of free people, then the question is no longer whether global socialism is "necessary," but rather the specific form that system will take. Accordingly, it was appropriate that the major secondary theme of the conference was "development" -- meaning redistribution of wealth from the industrial "North" to the impoverished "South."

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The UN is completely engrossed in exploiting problems in the World into crises. Kofi, the burnt match, sees himself as the powerful benevolent socialist leader of the world, having more wisdom than free people to solve problems.

The UN is dangerous. Globalists are dangerous. What will be their next scam?

[dasboot]

In Defoe's "Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" , published early in the 17th century, one can find a reference to female babies floating down the rivers of China. Crusoe observes that the society of China is barbaric for it's advanced state of civilization. He has difficulty reconciling the circumstance, and is disgusted (if I remember correctly).

Defoe's story was based upon what he heard from sailors who had been there (again if I remember correctly).

So I'm not so sure all this infanticide is a new thing; it seems to have been going on over there for at least three hundred years.

[dasboot]

18th century. duh.

[MayDay72]

...It is obvious that many intellectual and political leaders from the extreme left ['socialists'/'communists'/'fellow travelers'] are exploiting fears of environmental catastrophe to advance their political agenda...

...It is quite obvious to all but the most raving statist that an argument in favor of collectivism over capitalism can no longer be made in terms of individual or collective economic gain...The old 'logic' of collectivism that was advanced during the last century by people such a Marx and Keynes has been largely discredited by Mises, Hayek, Friedman, etc...Quite simply: Collectivism cannot create wealth...Collectivism can only create an environment in which everyone is equally impoverished...

...So now the collectivists/statists have shifted to a more modern, fashionable and saleable pitch: "sustainability"...That means we will have plenty of opportunity and resources to starve to death in the dark equally, fairly, indefinitely, with no negative impact to the environment...

[dasboot]

Another thought:

I can't help but think that the Chinese officials readily embraced the notion that babies could be killed in the name of saving China: they must have some collective guilt over the long-practiced cultural habit of offing their unwanted offspring.

This leads me to notice that it's not so different from the excuses used in Western countries...ours included...to assuage the guilt of our peculiar infanticidal habits. What, 30 to 40 million kids in 30 years?

[longtermmemmory]

hello didn't you forget, the world ran out of drinking water in 1999, the year 2000 brought the elimination of the ozone layer and of course that fact that 1/2 of the US population has starved to death.

(oh and we are now in an ice age and cross country skiing in miami.)

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"So now the collectivists/statists have shifted to a more modern, fashionable and saleable pitch: "sustainability"...That means we will have plenty of opportunity and resources to starve to death in the dark equally, fairly, indefinitely, with no negative impact to the environment..."

What is the end game for leftists like Hillary and what is motivating them to destroy the institutions of this country?(for 30 years running) Why dismantle the most successful system ever and turn your back on your own history and people? What is wrong with these sickos? Thats what I do not understand.

[JustPiper]

Once again my friend, you did your homework, bump!!!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

What will the next UN crisis be? They know that Bush will not let them usurp any more US power.

[longtermmemmory]

I believe the rest of the world feels they can sit and wait for 2008. Then look for Jummy Carter and Bill Clinton to solicit our enemies (including the French) for help in electing a weak will president.

Contain Bush because US presidents are limited in terms. Socialist countries' presidents hardly even need an election.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Then look for Jummy Carter and Bill Clinton to solicit our enemies (including the French) for help in electing a weak will president. "

Clinton will be UN president by then.

[y2k_free_radical]

I wish LATIN AMERICA would use MORE birth control

[y2k_free_radical]

I wish LATIN AMERICA would use MORE birth control

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for all the information!

[hedgetrimmer]

The UN is dangerous. Globalists are dangerous. What will be their next scam?

Free trade.