On Sep 22, 6:17*am, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:17:59 -0700 (PDT), Iconoclast





wrote:
It doesn't take an "expert" to figure out that prosperous nations need
to develop a fortress mentality before they are overwhelmed by Third
World poor.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...d35fc4f8355e56....

Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts
Sep 21 01:41 PM US/Eastern

Unchecked population growth is speeding climate change, damaging life-
nurturing ecosystems and dooming many countries to poverty, experts
concluded in a conference report released Monday.

Unless birth rates are lowered sharply through voluntary family-
planning programmes and easy access to contraceptives, the tally of
humans on Earth could swell to an unsustainable 11 billion by 2050,
they warned.

The UN currently projects that global population will rise from 6.8
billion today to between 8.0 and 10.5 billion by mid-century.

The researchers said that with one and a half million more humans
climbing aboard the planet every week, a recipe is looming for
ecological overload, famine and broken states.

"Continued rapid population growth in many of the least developed
countries could lead to hunger, a failure of education and conflict,"
said Malcolm Potts at the University of California in Berkeley, which
hosted the conference in February.

The papers, authored by 42 specialists in environmental science,
economics and demography, are published by the Royal Society,
Britain's de-facto academy of sciences.

"There is no doubt that the current rate of human population growth is
unsustainable," summarised Roger Short, a professor at the University
of Melbourne in Australia.

"The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional
energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global
warming and providing an increasing number of failed states where
civil unrest prevails."

Ninety-eight percent of the expected population growth will occur in
developing countries, especially in Africa, where numbers are set to
double to almost two billion by 2050.

"How Niger is going to feed a population growing from 11 million today
to 50 million in 2050 in a semi-arid country that may be facing
adverse climate (change) is unclear," said Adair Turner, a member of
Britain's House of Lords.

The population of Uganda was five million in 1950, is 25 million today
and could reach 127 million by 2050, Turner said.

Concern about population growth is not new.

It was most famously articulated by a British mathematician, Thomas
Malthus, who in 1798 -- when Earth was home to about one billion --
calculated that exponential growth would inevitably lead to famine.

Malthus's dire warning was widely taken seriously until the advent of
mechanised farming. The surge in food productivity, helped by the
Green Revolution of the 1960s, gave the impression that Earth's bounty
was limitless.

But relentlessly rising demand, diminishing farmland, depleted fish
stocks, falling water tables and the threat of climate change have in
recent years placed the Malthusian dilemma back on the table.

In their overview, the authors say that even though the burden of
excess population is clear, controversy and taboo stalk the question
of how to tackle it.

Some objections, such as the Roman Catholic Church's ban on birth
control, are religious.

But the question has been ignored or sidelined in the secular arena
too, the authors said.

Population control, for example, did not figure among the UN's eight
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, though it was added later
"as an afterthought," said Short.

One reason has been the family planning programmes in China and India
that critics say veered into forced sterilisations and coercive
abortions, breaching human rights.

The researchers acknowledged these problems but also pointed out that
without its "one-child" policy, China would have an extra 300 to 400
million mouths to feed today.

There would be double the number of young people, from 20 to 40
million, who enter the Chinese job market each year.

The researchers agreed with the widely held belief that improving
economic conditions generally lead to lower birth rates.

But, they argue, smaller families also lead to greater prosperity, and
this can be helped by programmes that are voluntary and inexpensive.

Some 80 million pregnancies -- nearly 40 percent of the total each
year -- are unplanned. More than half of those unwanted pregnancies
will result in abortion, with five million women suffering severe
complications or death.

"Much more emphasis need to be given to meeting the need for family
planning -- all women should be protected from unintended childbirth,"
they said in a collective editorial.

Copyright AFP 2008, AFP

And Uncle Suckemoff keeps welcoming about 1 million legal immigrants
a year!!

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Obama's next "push" will be amnesty for illegal aliens.

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