Is the Earth Really Overpopulated? Analyzing Another Conspiracy Theory
Malthus is a Favorite of the Elites
Our barren desert back yard patio in Las Vegas from a photo taken about 10 minutes ago. We don’t even water the area.
Not the bee had an interesting chart showing human population size by area.
I agreed fully with the summary:
We need every single one of the nearly 8 billion humans that are here today to make society work. The extreme complexity and rapid development we have experienced is because of a world that sees human life and health as a good thing.
For over a century, the likes of Thomas Malthus – the 18th-century British dweeb who thought everyone was going to starve because we were closing in on a billion people – have been proven wrong again and again.
We are not lab rats. We are human beings. Where there is a desert, we make a garden. Where there is a problem, we solve it. Where there is hurt, we heal. As broken as we are, we retain the image of God, and it is beautiful.
Adding people does not add a linear strain on the environment. Instead, it offers exponential solutions. Disease-resistant crops, antibiotics, electricity, computers, planes, rockets, and nuclear energy were invented by people who had the opportunity to live.
I am routinely amazed that people can be alarmed by charts like these:
So let me get this straight. People who can’t predict what the weather will be next week know with certainty what the global population will be in 2100, both with and without their interventions? What utter hogwash. Some dipshits in charge convinced people of a scam.
Science!
Meanwhile here’s some pretty clear charts of what is going on with those Covid “vaccines”: this is the likelihood of getting Covid based on how many jabs you’ve had:
And here is total mortality based on time since last dose. On the plus side it does seem to go down once you stop the shots! (edit note: Morality is not the same word as Mortality on the top table)
So the excess mortality is continuing as long as these dipshits continue pushing poison. I’ve been at a loss for how to red pill mom’s (our) roommate, who is at least quadruple jabbed and may well have taken the latest bivalent tested on eight mice booster too. He has no teeth, eczema on his face, is taking nitroglycerin tablets for bouts of angina and has had a medical check of his blood glucose and today has a bone density test. I have been here 11 days and that has all happened since I came back. Doctors are utterly baffled about his health problems. I tend to think that being poisoned can manifest in myriad ways.
From my interest in demographics that stretches back over 20 years it’s been clear that the bigger problem on the horizon is depopulation. That was true even before Covid, so I’m still wrapping my head around how bad it is now. The total fertility rate of almost every developed country on Earth has fallen below replacement levels, something that is papered over to a degree by immigration to some places and the built in momentum of previous baby booms. Sperm levels have halved since the 1970’s globally and women are settling for less children than they want to have, which indicates that infertility or economic pressure are big problems. Even abortion rates were dropping, though they did see an uptick in 2020 during the pandemic year that was almost certainly tied to the economic uncertainty of, you know, shutting down the world. That was a big win for the globalists I’m sure. Just remember that we are the carbon they ultimately want to reduce.
As Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker write:
Abandoning growth as humanity’s target inevitably means a return to a feudal system, in which history tells us that humanity stalled for thousands of years. People in feudal systems were stuck with no growth per capita, but with enough technology to make enslavement possible. Once the size of the pie is believed to be fixed but the means to force others into submission are available, all the energy in the political system is yoked to the cart of helping the powerful secure their share of the pie and minimise the share allocated to others.
A negative equilibrium emerges in which the vast majority are enslaved by a tiny minority, coupled with a supporting ideology to pacify the vast majority by reassuring them that the situation is fair. Such a system also typically features a group of brutal middleman enforcers to keep the non-elite in line. This is exactly what is emerging right now in the West.
The picture we paint above was the reality of life for many centuries in the empires of China, Russia, medieval Europe, India, Latin America, and elsewhere. The supporting ideology and the names of the elites varied, but the politics was pretty much the same: a situation of servitude for the vast majority, with no say over their own bodies or their own time. The subjugated peoples in Roman, Arab, and colonial societies were slaves…
The fear of the rich that the ‘wrong people’ will breed most and will thereby inherit the earth is an ongoing theme in history. The solution to this, from the elite perspective? Deliberate depopulation, making it harder for the ‘wrong people’ to breed, or ensuring that they themselves would outbreed others. One may think that actually trying such solutions is a thing of the past, but just as peasants had to ask their lords permission to be married in feudal times, barriers to marriages were normal during lockdowns, at the whim of “health” bureaucrats.
What do the authors think is the answer to this? The free market.
What breaks that grip is not a golden moment of revelation, but rather market forces. Within these new slave societies, breakaway groups can be happier and more productive than those still yoked to modern sin stories and the control of parasites. Across societies, there is real choice.
The long-run market pressure is towards efficient structures. The slave model is not efficient for societies fueled by human capital investments, and hence by a belief in progress through growth in knowledge. In that deeper sense, the news is still good: production and wealth creation in our societies are still dependent on human capital and the scientific progress that it creates.
Here’s what our current incentive structure pays more for:
Hospitals got big bonuses for killing people with Covid. In a sane world, wouldn’t you reward hospitals that treated your loved ones for the lowest costs, with the best outcomes, i.e. they recovered and lived? Wouldn’t you want to save their lives?
If you are a billionaire Malthusian, who is convinced that the world is overpopulated with undesirables and is able to set up an incentive structure that enriches yourself, maybe not so much…
For all of my 58 years, there has been more than a subtle message from both educational and religious (in my case, Catholic) institutions to have fewer kids, that we are overburdening the earth. In addition, my own parents neither encouraged nor discouraged me to have kids, as if they had no opinion about the subject. (I come from a family of 4, but my Mom had at least 8 pregnancies and a few miscarraiges to get to that number). As if this was not enough discouragement, my parents and my siblings were dutifully injected with various death elixers that likely decreased our viability as humans; I could share stories of illness. My sisters birth control pills (in the late 1970s) resulted in her eventual sterility due to hysterectomy. The enormity of this anti-birth psy-op is staggering, especially because it has been implemented so silently, without decree or discussion.
If anyone thinks the earth is overpopulated, please, let’s start with you. Put your money where your mouth be at