Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits

摘要: For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They robbed people of developing countries their progeny developed world pocketbooks. Determined stop growth at all costs, those Mosher calls "population controllers" abused women, targeted racial religious minorities, undermined primary health care programs, encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship. skewed foreign aid programs United States other in an anti-natal direction, corrupted dozens well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations, impoverished authentic development programs. Blinded by zealotry, they even embraced most brutal birth campaign history: China's infamous one-child policy, with its attendant horrors. There is no workable demographic definition "overpopulation." Those who argue for premises conjure up images poverty - low incomes, poor health, unemployment, malnutrition, overcrowded housing justify The irony that such policies many ways caused what predicted which poorer materially, less diverse culturally, advanced economically, plagued disease. controllers only studiously ignored mounting evidence multiple failures; avoided biggest story them all. Fertility rates are free fall around globe. Movements billions dollars disposal, mention thousands paid advocates, do go quietly graves. Moreover, movement content merely achieve zero growth, want see negative numbers. In view, our current should be reduced one or two billion so. Such goal would keep these interest groups fully employed. It also dangerous consequences global environment.