"Overcrowding? Nah — the World’s Population May [blue italics added] Actually Be Declining"
Newborns nestle together in a maternity ward in China, where parents are restricted to having only one child
In the 1973 movie Soylent Green, the world had turned (spoiler alert!) to cannibalism to feed its billions of unwashed masses by 2022. But nine years before that milestone, it looks as if the world’s population could actually be starting [blue italics added] to decline. ...
But it turns out the world’s population isn't growing nearly as fast as it once did. In fact, experts say the rate of population growth will continue to slow and that the total population will eventually — likely within our lifetimes — fall. ...
The media drumbeat never stops. The names of the deniers just keep changing. Their main magic trick is to employ the argument of the slowing growth "rate," a perfect example of lying by way of carefully reconfigured statistics.
As populations become ever more humongous, you can add the same number of humans each year, but the rate of population growth can be shown to slow or decrease, because each year the added numbers are compared to, or calculated against, an ever larger population base.
If a town of, say, 1,000 increases by 500 in the first year, an increase of 50 percent, and then adds another 500 each year thereafter, a person can truthfully demonstrate that population is increasing at an ever slower rate, because those additional 500 people will look smaller and smaller when calculated against an ever larger yearly total population base.
Keep in mind that things like fossil natural resources, energy consumption, extinctions and pollution don't give a farthing about rates. Environmental and related social problems simply become increasingly dire by adding ever more bazillions of people. Happy-talk ravings about rates are left to comfy wide-eyed journalists and others of the mathematically impaired or to the ideologically motivated.
As populations become ever more humongous, you can add the same number of humans each year, but the rate of population growth can be shown to slow or decrease, because each year the added numbers are compared to, or calculated against, an ever larger population base.
If a town of, say, 1,000 increases by 500 in the first year, an increase of 50 percent, and then adds another 500 each year thereafter, a person can truthfully demonstrate that population is increasing at an ever slower rate, because those additional 500 people will look smaller and smaller when calculated against an ever larger yearly total population base.
Keep in mind that things like fossil natural resources, energy consumption, extinctions and pollution don't give a farthing about rates. Environmental and related social problems simply become increasingly dire by adding ever more bazillions of people. Happy-talk ravings about rates are left to comfy wide-eyed journalists and others of the mathematically impaired or to the ideologically motivated.
All this is no accident. While overpopulation makes the world poorer (yes, more people in China and India have moved into the middle class, but notice how rarely anyone claims that the total number of poor has gone down, since the desperately destitute have also been continually multiplying), worsens all environmental and countless social and political problems, and will lead to catastrophic final global population crashes, ever more consumers do make money for some irresponsible elites.
Additionally, open borders to the teeming multitudes is a wonderful way to destroy Western nations. Note that almost all media ownership, including the film studios, is in the hands of one tiny demographic group. A very enlightening discussion of this 'march through the institutions of the West' can be found in Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique.
Additionally, open borders to the teeming multitudes is a wonderful way to destroy Western nations. Note that almost all media ownership, including the film studios, is in the hands of one tiny demographic group. A very enlightening discussion of this 'march through the institutions of the West' can be found in Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique.
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