The United Nations has estimated that October, 1999,
will see the birth of the six billionth person. The population reached a
billion people in 1800. The 2nd billionth person is 69 years old; the 3rd
billionth is 39; the 4th is 24; and the 5th billionth soul is 12 years
old. A cursory glance at these numbers can be alarming; three billion to
six billion in less than four decades! While the United Nations (UN) and
globalist community use these figures to scare the world into believing
there is an overpopulation crisis, the facts suggest something quite
different.
Historically, national populations resembled a pyramid
with a large, younger population providing support to the significantly
smaller aging population. As growth rates stagnate, the pyramid becomes
more like a box. Replacement rate for a stable population is generally
understood to be 2.1 children per female, with the 0.1 required to make up
for childless couples and the death of children.
If fertility rates fall below what is needed for
replacement, the box eventually becomes an inverted pyramid, leaving a
very small number to populate the workforce that supports the economy
which then supports a vast, aging population. This dilemma is already
becoming a reality for some nations. Last spring, for example, for the
first time in history Japan had more people over 65 than under 15.
The actual global rate of growth has fallen from about
2.3% in the early 1960’s to 1.3 % today which is a decline of 44%. The
average number of children per fertile woman has fallen from 5.5 to 2.7
during the same time period. In many developed nations, the fertility rate
is drastically lower than the averages indicate. Bulgaria, Italy, the
Czech Republic, Romania and Spain, for instance, have an average of only
1.2 births per woman. In the Russian Federation (where there are 7
abortions for every live birth), Germany, Estonia, Greece, Slovenia and
Latvia, the average rate is 1.3. In 22 countries of Europe and North
America, the rate averages 1.5.
In the period from 1970-1975, 79 countries had high
fertility rates of greater than six children per woman. Today, only 10
nations exhibit this rate of growth. In the face of concern over decline,
some nations such as France are offering financial incentives to entice
women to bear more children. Italy must import workers to staff their
labor force because the declining population has left more jobs than
people to fill them.
In 1993, the UN proclaimed that population growth was
experiencing a boom that would be beyond the planet’s ability to support
it. The UN’s estimate at that time for a high fertility rate was that
the population would reach nearly 20 billion by 2100 A.D. A mere 5 years
later in 1998, the estimate using the same fertility ranking was reduced
to between 12-13 billion. While a much more realistic, mid-range fertility
rate predicts a population of around 9 billion in the year 2100. Many
analysts believe it will be even less than that. It is likely that the
fertility rate will drop below the replacement rate of 2.1
The UN’s 1998 report, E/CN.9/1999/2 by the Commission
on Population and Development, states that government must implement
population policies and limit prosperity because the environment is
threatened by a more numerous and prosperous people. And yet, according to
this same report, it is precisely the advances achieved as a direct result
of prosperity, such as education and lower child mortality rates, that
account for lower fertility rates. Furthermore, it is only a prosperous
people who have the resources to adequately protect the environment.
Those who trumpet the incessant rhetoric that the
planet is becoming over populated, consistently point to densely populated
areas to prove the point. The truth is that these areas such as Africa,
China and Latin America are relatively low in population density. The
density in the Netherlands is triple that of China, and the UK has a
population density 5 times that of Africa.
Like every other crisis proclaimed by the UN and
globalists, the population crisis does not exist. And, like most UN
solutions to solve crises, government control of population growth will
only exacerbate human misery and suffering. Rather than help the people of
the world, it is designed to enslave them.
The truth is that if the current trends in reproduction
world wide prevail, approximately 7.7 billion souls will be living on
planet Earth around the year 2035, then we will actually begin to see a
decline. God’s Word tells us that the birth of every child is a gift, a
treasure. If fertility rates continue to decline, we will see a world that
mirrors the China of today where an entire generation has grown up with no
siblings, no aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, no nephews....and,
no freedom.
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and
the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty
man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver
full of them..." Psalm 127:3-5 (KJV) V
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