World population growth was 2% per year in 1960. Babies everywhere. Today, it's less than 1%, and the rate of growth is falling off a cliff. Almost ALL areas of the world are negative or close to neutral, other than a few parts of Asia and of course, Africa.
Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan are shrinking in population, quickly.
Every region goes through the same cycle. People have lots of babies and lots of babies die. Then through improved nutrition and medicine, all of a sudden the babies stop dying. The next generation stops having so many babies. The generation after achieves a much higher level of wealth, and barely has babies at all.
Next people will be looking into controlling the weather and climate.
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you mean by 'sending prayers'....or maybe chemtrails...?
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
The verse says in total “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion” over all creation (Genesis 1:28). Note that it doesn't say that there's no end to it. Man has completed the task and the earth is full. There is no command to keep multiplying after the earth is full.
To what degree was man supposed to 'fill' the earth...?
When it became full according to Gods measure, what was the global population at that point? ie; how far over that mark is the current world population?
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We have so much food in our country we burn it in our cars. So much grain that we don't have sufficient storage. It gets piled on the ground and much goes to waste. So much that we can pay farmers not to use arable land. So much that even when grain is used, much is used for meat production. A luxury food for rich people. An inefficient use that results in less actual human food. Any idea why people starve?
Name me three countries where there is actually inadequate food for the population.
If two off the above list apply, you can't use that country.
I get sick of hearing about starving kids in this country. It's just not a true fact.
WIC School lunches Food banks Church charities Compassionate neighbors
If a kid is hungry, the parents have decided that kid should be hungry. Our school has started a backpack food program. On Friday select kids get food to take home to get them through the weekend. Part of the design is to keep the parent from taking the food and selling it. It gives the kid a certain control over their food.
Newt Gingrich was right about orphanages, and unless we start to use them, parents will starve their kids.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
We have so much food in our country we burn it in our cars. So much grain that we don't have sufficient storage. It gets piled on the ground and much goes to waste. So much that we can pay farmers not to use arable land. So much that even when grain is used, much is used for meat production. A luxury food for rich people. An inefficient use that results in less actual human food. Any idea why people starve?
no he ain't. but it's out there and has been nearly forever it seems like.
it's like some one iterated in a prior post, even if someone did recognize the problem, there wouldn't be a damn thing they could do about it.
our whole economic system is predicated upon growth, and more of it. like an oak tree, one might say.
our main line base economic theories rely upon growth. nobody got a clue when national populations are in decline, except bring in workers from over-populated areas of the urth.
china saw the problem, but addressed it with inadequate and inappropriate policies. they are building high-tech condom mfg. facilities in haiti. maybe we can thank them for that?
the early design of humans was very effective, it got the humans up to a critical mass of populations to escape and avoid disease, wars, etc. and still leave a viable population. in the design that has worked so well so far, we're seeing signs of excesses now. look in the walmart, in the schools, in foreign countries.
and there's nobody to address or educate the populance on hardly any of it. it's call freedom, and by god we all want some of that. i pay good tax money to buy mine.
At its core this conversation about over population is fundamentally about the competition for resources, power and control.
Its bullschit. Like the Paris Accord, or in other words the New Race for Africa.
One thing is for sure....you people have too much to eat if this is the kind of schit you worry about.
by jove, Jim. much of what you say comes right out of my playbook. when overpopulation occurs, if it hasn't already, then the competition for resources, power & control intensifies. how our top mgnt and the rest of the worlds top management deals with it will have lasting effects on the quality of life of our offspring.
secular humanists have a chance now to act while there's still time. if the clock itsself runs out, ol Mother Nature is going to have quite a jolly time making things right again. or she might just move on to the next iteration leaving us in the history books?
This subject came up talking with a woman. She was saying how disgusting this and men were until I ask her "what about all the buzzing dill does girls have been buying for decades" She had no answer.
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