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[mannyamador]

Curb the Population Myth
By Nicholas Eberstadt
5 Feb 2009
http://www.criticalopinion.org/articles/187

WASHINGTON -- President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies — and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.

“Continued rapid population growth poses a bigger threat to poverty reduction in most countries than HIV/AIDS,” the UNFPA said in an hysterical statement on World Population Day, last July. This is plain wrong: it is not human numbers that cause poverty, but bad economic policies, laws and institutions.

The densely-populated Netherlands and Japan are prosperous but poor in resources, while much of impoverished Africa is thinly populated but rich in resources. The United States rose to affluence with one of the world’s highest long-term population growth rates, while now-prosperous Ireland had negative long-term rates. Clearly, neither human numbers nor natural resources are keys to the modern story of global wealth and poverty.

The UNFPA talks of “women’s empowerment and gender equality” and “universal access to reproductive health” but, despite this politically-correct discourse, it remains committed to its original purpose of reducing population growth: reproductive healthcare is “the most practicable option for slowing population growth,” it says, equating this with poverty, food insecurity and environmental degradation.

These fallacies hark back to the 18th century economist Thomas Robert Malthus. Like many other pressure groups and NGOs, the UNFPA continues to commit elementary analytical errors: ignoring evidence staring us in the face.

The 20th century saw human numbers quadruple to more than six billion but food production widely outstripped population growth, average life expectancy doubled to well over 60 years, while global GDP per capita more than quintupled.

In the 1960s, alarmists such as Paul Ehrlich predicted imminent mass famine around the world. Indeed, in the last couple of years global food prices briefly shot up — maize, wheat and rice all doubled or tripled in a short time — but fell back again. In fact, the long-term trend in real grain prices over the past century has been heading steadily downward, at an average of seven to 10 percent per decade (depending on the product).

To be sure, a horrifying number of people today still live in squalor, scourged by disease and hunger — but the correct name for this is poverty, not “overpopulation.” In countries where people cannot securely own property, cannot sell their produce freely and get scant protection in law, government is poverty’s handmaiden.

Population alarmists and their allies in the UN are deluding themselves when they claim government intervention can reduce fertility rates and “stabilize” population. Their mantra is that education, high literacy and cheap birth control lead to lower birth rates.

Health, literacy and voluntary contraception are meritorious objectives in their own right, irrespective of any influence on population growth. But it is misleading to claim they predictably reduce birth rates.

Take literacy. The adult literacy rate in 2006 was about a third higher in Malawi than Morocco (54 percent vs. 40 percent), yet fertility levels in Malawi were double. Family planning campaigns are similarly unpredictable: in 1974 Mexico started a vigorous campaign to cut population growth and got fertility levels down by 56 percent but Brazil’s fertility level fell by 54 percent with no campaign at all, in the same quarter century. These are not cherry-picked examples: there is simply no way of knowing in advance the impact of family-planning programmes on birth rates.

It turns out that the single best international predictor of fertility levels is the number of children that women say they would like. The only proven way of curbing population growth is coercion, as in India briefly in the 1970s and in UNFPA-client China today. There is no other assured way of accomplishing immediate and dramatic birth reductions through population policy — period.

Many organizations, including the World Health Organization and UNICEF, already work to promote the health of women and children internationally.

Plainly, many global health threats, from maternal and neonatal deaths to diarrhoea, malaria and other infectious diseases, are creations of poverty.

Only economic growth and freedom, not deceitful population programs from the UNFPA, can empower women and spare them poverty and premature death.

NO TO ABORTION. NO TO THE ABORTIFACIENT-PROMOTING RH/ABORTION BILL (HB 5043)
Please sign the petition AGAINST the Reproductive Health/Abortion Bill (HB5043)
http://www.petitiononline.com/xxhb5043/

[psyd_1]

i would stress my thougths on this thread, I am NO TO ABORTION.. but mas maau sad cguro aware ang mga couples diha na di lalim ang manganak ug dili sad sila palabi ug panganak (gawas kung daghan au silag money, aws way problema maskin usa ka football team ba ilang babies).. control is the keyword..

[coolit]

Bro, ang mga tawo sa Singapore labi na ang mga intsik, hadlok ug responsibilidad. kay kabalo sila nga kong magkaanak na sila, kinahanglan na sila mokuha ug katabang which means, dugang gasto na pod. Ang gasto sa katabang is S$350 starting nga sweldo, S$300 ang levy, tagaan pa ug kwarto, pagkaon pa, mokunsumo pa ug tubig, kuryente, etc...unya kon dili dako ang salary sa asawa paundangon na lang kay di kaya ang katabang... unya unsaon na lang ang amortization sa balay, kotse, credit card, utility bills... mao nang bisan magminyo hadlok gyud... pero sa Pilipinas, bisan ug mga way trabaho, hala birada!!!! naa bitaw simbahan molaban.... naa pa gyud urban poor groups...

Mao ni naka apan sa atoa kay ang mga class D & E nga wa magbayad ug tax kay wa ma'y work, mao nuon dagko ug nadawat nga tabang sa gobyerno, dako ug allocation whereas, ang working class (class C) nga sakto ug buhis kay kaltas na daan ang witholding tax, mao nuon ang pinaka least nga naka benepisyo sa tax nga iyang gibayad... pagkabaliktad ba ani....

Right you are! Kaning simbahan kusog kaayo mu-oppose anang mga measures sa government to manage population growth nga di man intawn kaayo sila kapakaon aning mga tawhana nga sige nalang man og panganak.

Kani pud mga class d and e, magsige nalang og padaghan. Kabalong walay ikabuhi, sige gihapon. Not properly informed man sad gud mao kelangan jud og matudluan sad. Sometimes makathink nalang tawn ko nga are we wasting our taxes catering to these people's needs? Hate to be a snob but ako lang if wala gani contribution di nalang mudungag sa problema.. nya i-exploit pajud sila sa mga pulitiko..samot.

[AmorsoloX]

awareness and education is the key here.. ignorance will kill us all..

dapat jud nga aware mga tao ani population problem...

[raski]

awareness and education is the key here.. ignorance will kill us all..

dapat jud nga aware mga tao ani population problem...

Bro wurag gi-invade ni Mannyamador imohang thread.. unsa na man na iyahang gi-pang post oy, wala man nay labot diri sa topic nagpataka naman lang na siyag aw-aw...

[raski]

Right you are! Kaning simbahan kusog kaayo mu-oppose anang mga measures sa government to manage population growth nga di man intawn kaayo sila kapakaon aning mga tawhana nga sige nalang man og panganak.

Kani pud mga class d and e, magsige nalang og padaghan. Kabalong walay ikabuhi, sige gihapon. Not properly informed man sad gud mao kelangan jud og matudluan sad. Sometimes makathink nalang tawn ko nga are we wasting our taxes catering to these people's needs? Hate to be a snob but ako lang if wala gani contribution di nalang mudungag sa problema.. nya i-exploit pajud sila sa mga pulitiko..samot.

Apan mao gyud ni ang problema sa simbahan.. matud pa ni mannyamador, wala daw overpopulation ang pilipinas kay ang tao imbis pobre ni-produce man kuno og more kay sa ilahang consumption. Ay sus.. ana ra diay ka simple-minded ang iyahang definition sa overpopulation. So ang pasabot, bahala na kung pobre ang tao og walay kuwarta basta lang maka-kaon 3x a day og maka hatag og kuwarta sa simbahan sa sunday service!

Wala gyud gi consider ang quality of life sa ilahang definition sa overpopulation. Bahala na kung wurag animal intaon ang buhay sa Pinoy, nga wurag hand-to-mouth existence ang kinabuhi, basta lang matuman ang gusto sa simbahan. Mao ni ang ilahang gi-ingon nga "ivory tower insensitivity".. kanang mga religioso unta nga maluoy unta sa pobre og sa kalisoran nila ba.. mao diay wala nay motuman sa mga pari.. kay buwisit gyud sila usahay, dili kahibalo maluoy sa ilahang kapwa-pilipino...

[gikapoy]

Bro, ang mga tawo sa Singapore labi na ang mga intsik, hadlok ug responsibilidad. kay kabalo sila nga kong magkaanak na sila, kinahanglan na sila mokuha ug katabang which means, dugang gasto na pod. Ang gasto sa katabang is S$350 starting nga sweldo, S$300 ang levy, tagaan pa ug kwarto, pagkaon pa, mokunsumo pa ug tubig, kuryente, etc...unya kon dili dako ang salary sa asawa paundangon na lang kay di kaya ang katabang... unya unsaon na lang ang amortization sa balay, kotse, credit card, utility bills... mao nang bisan magminyo hadlok gyud... pero sa Pilipinas, bisan ug mga way trabaho, hala birada!!!! naa bitaw simbahan molaban.... naa pa gyud urban poor groups...

Mao ni naka apan sa atoa kay ang mga class D & E nga wa magbayad ug tax kay wa ma'y work, mao nuon dagko ug nadawat nga tabang sa gobyerno, dako ug allocation whereas, ang working class (class C) nga sakto ug buhis kay kaltas na daan ang witholding tax, mao nuon ang pinaka least nga naka benepisyo sa tax nga iyang gibayad... pagkabaliktad ba ani....

huh?
dili man sila hadlok mo kuha ug maid
ingon ako mga kauban nga local (singaporean nga mama) nga maski naa baby bonus.. dili daw enough. dako daw ang gasto mag pa dako ug bata. ang elementary ug HS kai barato ra... 100S$ kapin daw ang tuition in a year pero pag abot sa poly.. tagaktak na.. samot na kung mag kuha ug degree
ako mga kauban nga nag kuha ug degree kai mo abot 20k - 30k S$ ila total nga tution
pila ra baya ang sweldo sa middle class diri... 1300 - 2000 S$

[raski]

Curb the Population Myth
By Nicholas Eberstadt
5 Feb 2009
Curb the Population Myth - Critical Opinion

WASHINGTON -- President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies — and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.

“Continued rapid population growth poses a bigger threat to poverty reduction in most countries than HIV/AIDS,” the UNFPA said in an hysterical statement on World Population Day, last July. This is plain wrong: it is not human numbers that cause poverty, but bad economic policies, laws and institutions.

Isummarize nalang ni nako ha, kay taas kaayo ang article:

[peewee_toot]

yes to education... no to abortion...

[tokidoki]

hay. fear mongering post ni.