Population Controllers to Vatican: ‘Responsible Parenthood’ Has Failed. Use ‘Taxes and Regulations'

LifeSite News ^ | 3/2/17 | Jeanne Smits

[marshmallow]

March 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Population controllers told the Vatican at a conference this week that the Catholic teaching of “responsible parenthood” in determining family size has “result[ed] in collective failure” in reducing the world’s population. They suggested that the only way to stop the exhaustion of “humanity’s natural capital” is by imposing a system of “taxes and regulations” that would help modify “social norms of behaviour.”

This week’s Vatican symposium on Biological Extinction, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was a closed-door event. Speaking at the event were two controversial figures, Paul Ehrlich and Partha Dasgupta (read their paper here).

Both are population control advocates who speak as enemies of the Catholic Church’s traditional teaching and morals. They also make the environmentalists’ agenda perfectly clear: They want population control and a general contraction of living standards in a more and more socialized world.

Environmental Health News described their speech as a “moral revolution,” the very words used by the Vatican event’s sponsors in their presentation. In Pope Francis’ Laudato si’, the appeal for an “ecological conversion” is much the same.

Many of the 15 pages of Ehrlich and Dasgupta’s lengthy conference address are devoted to catastrophic predictions about the “Sixth Biological Extinction,” as well as warnings that the future of “civilization is utterly dependent” on the global ecosystem.

[marshmallow]

Full Headline: Population controllers to Vatican: ‘Responsible parenthood’ has failed. Use ‘taxes and regulations’ to reduce population

[Salvation]

G. K. Chesterton

"Surplus population"

"SCROOGE is not only as modern as Gradgrind but more modern than Gradgrind. He belongs not only to the hard times of the middle of the nineteenth century, but to the harder times of the beginning of the twentieth century; the yet harder times in which we live. Many amiable sociologists will say, as he said, "Let them die and decrease the surplus population." The improved proposal is that they should die before they are born.

"It is notable also that Dickens gives the right reply; and that with a deadly directness worthy of a much older and more subtle controversionalist. The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

[lee martell]

They are worried about reducing the number of children born?
Many Catholic based countries have the opposite problem right now. Both Spain and Italy are running low on newborns to replace those who have died.

[KarlInOhio]

Europe, North America and Australia are below a replacement birth rate of 2.0. Even China is 1.66. India is 2.5, which is above replacement but not hugely so. So who should the Pope tax to get them to reduce their population?

Them? Yeah, they'll get right on that.

[backwoods-engineer]

Demonrats now control the Vatican, too, apparently.

[catnipman]

“The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968.[1][2] It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth.”

Paul Ehrlich: wrong every since 1968. Why in the world does ANYONE still listen to this fool? He’s a worse prognosticator than Karl Rove, Nate Silver and Larry Sabato combined.

[RitaOK]

How else do you promote Mohammed and get rid of Christians? Population control tactics, more birth control and lighten up toward abortion, see the China forced abortions as a model, get with the program.

Anglos have already contracepted themselves out of existence into the future and are already left baying at the Moon.

[Secret Agent Man]

Executing all population control advocates when they spout stupid ideas like this will end this crap being suggested.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ehrlich Bullshrug bump

[Trillian]

Most people don’t want to have a lot of kids anymore. What exactly are these human haters worried about when most countries are at below replacement levels? That’s not good enough for them?

[txrefugee]

Sell that swell program of population control to the Muslims first. Their idea is controlling non-Muslim populations by beheadings & suicide bombers.