Posted on 01/16/2009 12:27:29 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
In the first half of the 19th century, the Malthusian Theory espoused the dire prediction that the growing population of the world, coupled with the decrease in farmland available to produce crops, would lead to a great shortage of food and eventually to mass starvation. Since the earth is limited in its arable land, the theory held that the only way to deal with this growing danger was to encourage worldwide population control. This would ensure a sufficient food supply for all the world's inhabitants.
History has shown how utterly wrong the Malthusian Theory has proven to be. While about half of the population of the United States lived on food-producing farms at the turn of the 20th century, less than one-fifth that number still lives on farms a century later. Thus, less than 10 percent of America's population is producing enough food for the needs of the entire country, and the mass surpluses continue to make it possible to export food to many hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Yet scientists and writers continue to warn of the dangers of population explosion and advise that the ideal family have no more than two children, which would keep the population stable and ensure that nobody starves. As ludicrous as this fear is, it has been adopted as fact by countless people worldwide. What they fail to recognize is that Hashem, the One Who nourishes, sustains and supports [all creations] from the horns of the re'eimim to the eggs of lice (i.e., from the greatest and largest creatures to the smallest ones) will certainly take care of every human being to provide him with his needs (see Talmud, Shabbos 107b).
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Keep up the good work, Alouette!
Great piece, thanks for sharing....
I did not know this! Zekher tzaddiq livrakhah!
Another gedol dorenu gone!
It was a year ago last November, just to make it clearer.
The current chairman of the Council of Torah Sages and de facto leader of the (small ‘o’) orthodox Jewish world is R. Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe.
The only real internet outlet for him is Mordechai Plaut at Dei’ah veDibur at the Shema Yisrael Torah Network.
Thank you for the information.
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