Lesson 1 – What the Experts Have to Say
DRUCKER (noted management expert): “The birthrate collapse has tremendous political and social implications that we cannot even guess at today… Of all developments, it is the most spectacular, the most unexpected and one that has no precedent whatsoever.”
EBERSTADT (former Rockefeller Foundation researcher): “Nearly half the planet’s populace [have] sub-replacement fertility levels.” This has led to problems such as “how to finance old-age retirement for a rapidly aging citizenry and questions for East Asia related to a looming bride shortage.”
FAZIO (governor of the Bank of Italy): “It is urgent that the number of births increase… in 20-30 years time the deficit of births will have repercussions on economic and social development.”
Lesson 2 – Overcrowding
| LESSON 2: Far from being overcrowded, the earth is plenty big enough for all of us and a whole lot more. In fact, all 6 billion of us could fit nicely into the province of Alberta, Canada (see tiny red area in the map below). |
Earth to population control fanatics:
There’s plenty of open land down there!
Just do the math:
In October 1999, the world population reached six billion people. If all those people lived in Alberta, Canada, the population density of Alberta would be 23,503 people per square mile (6,000,000,000 people / 255,285 square miles). This is the same population density that New York City currently has. And the rest of the world would be empty!
People say that India is overcrowded, but do the math. India, with a population of one billion people, currently has a population density of 788 people per square mile. This is less than the current population density of the state of New Jersey (986).
Just do the math, and the answer is obvious. Even if population doubled or tripled, we would need very little of the earth’s surface for living.
Lesson 3 – Food Production
| LESSON 3: Many population elimination advocates claim that we cannot produce enough food to feed a growing population. Yet, we currently feed all six billion people using only 4% of our grain production capacity. If we used 33% of our capacity, we could feed 50 billion people. |
Food for thought for prophets of famine:
There’s already enough to feed us all!
Read what the experts say:
- We produce enough food for every person to have 3,800 calories a day, at least one third more than what the average person needs.— Population, Food, and Nutrition, Bender and Smith, 1997
- Virtually all food shortages in African countries are due to “civil strife.”—UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) news release, August 9, 1999
- Global food production will continue to increase faster than consumption.—The World Food Outlook, 1997
Lesson 4 – Water
| LESSON 4: Population elimination apologists cast dire predictions of imminent water shortages, unless population growth is curbed. But, as usual, they’re all wet. Two thirds of the earth’s surface is covered with water and current desalination technology is capable of taming our teeming oceans into potable pools of pure tap water. |
. . . And not a drop to drink???
You’d better stop and think!
Read what the experts say:
- The real story of the drought of 1999 is the phenomenal level of distortion that has been heaped upon it. We do not have a worldwide water shortage.—World Climate Report
- In areas where fresh water is costly to recover, desalination plants currently pour out two billion gallons a day worldwide. One plant in the city of Cape Coral, Florida delivers 15 million gallons a day.—Technology Review
- One reason for desalination’s increasing popularity is the steady decline in the amount of fuel it requires, which is the main cost of the process. Modern techniques generate 100 units of water for every unit of energy consumed. Four decades ago, rudimentary distillation took 25 units of energy to produce a unit of drinking water.—Technology Review
Lesson 5 – Racism
| LESSON 5: Nothing reveals the dark side of the population elimination movement like the demonstrably racist outcomes of their policies and practices. Results only the Ku Klux Klan could love. Don’t believe it? Look below—the facts are all there in black and brown. |
See Africa … South America … India … Harlem!
And discover population control’s true colors!
Read what the experts say:
- Population controllers will go to great lengths to reduce the numbers of children born to people of color.—Excessive Force: Power, Politics & Population Control
Information Project For Africa, 1995 - Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.—Alan Guttmacher Institute
- Over 57% of population control money is spent on reducing births of Africans and Latinos.—International Planned Parenthood Federation
1996–1997 Annual Report
Lesson 6 – Nonsense & Common Sense
| LESSON 6: The theory behind population control relies on the theory of thought control. Create so may obstacles to the truth, that most people will prefer to believe “the Big Lie.” Until even really smart guys can’t tell the difference between… |
| . . . NONSENSE . . . |
| . . . AND COMMON SENSE. |
- The claim that two-thirds of the population is malnourished was originally made by the United Nations in 1950. It was proved to be false then, and continues to be false today1. Common sense says that men of substance who support claims without substance are soon parted from their money.
- According to United Nations data, over 80% of the world population is literate2. Common sense says that any claim that two-thirds of the world is uneducated is ridiculous.
- Children are taught skills in school. According to UN statistics, over 70% of children in India and over 95% of children in China attend primary and secondary schools3. Common sense says that if the kids don’t have the right skills, change the school program, don’t have fewer children.
- One last point. If the letter above is reflective of the “expert advice” you’re currently receiving, that provides at least a partial explanation for the course your foundation has so far been following. Common sense says you should stop listening to that nonsense.
1The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon, 1996, p. 93–94.
2Associated Press news story, 10/11/99.
3World Statistics Pocketbook, United Nations.
Lesson 7 – Energy Supplies
| LESSON 7: Proponents of population elimination often use dire predictions of global energy shortages to justify their draconian measures. But after decades and decades of false prophecies, there is no energy crisis in sight. It’s only our willingness to tackle tough problems that is running on empty. |
The only thing greater than our growing supply of fuels…
…is the gullibility of our constant supply of fools.
Read what the ‘experts’ have predicted in the past:
- In 1885 and again in 1891, the U.S. Geological Survey said there was “little or no chance for oil” being found in California, Kansas or Texas1.
- In 1951, the Department of Interior’s Oil and Gas Division said oil reserves would last only 13 years2.
- Paul Ehrlich, 1975: “What will we do when the pumps run dry?”3.
- Despite these dire predictions, oil is in abundant supply and oil prices have generally been falling. All other forms of energy are also in abundance!
1U.S. Geological Survey (1885 and 1891), as documented in The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon, 1996.
2Congressional hearings on the Energy Independence Act of 1975, as documented in The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon, 1996.
3The End of Influence, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, 1975.
Lesson 8 – “Family Planning”
| LESSON 8: Planned Parenthood plays down its aggressive abortion programs, preferring to describe such programs in deceptive terms, like “reproductive health,” or “family planning.” Every dollar given to Planned Parenthood is a dollar that, directly or indirectly, supports abortion. Why don’t the people at your foundation know this, Bill? |
Life begins at conception1…
…and ends at Planned Parenthood.
Just follow the money:
- On October 13, 1999, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grant of $1.7 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).2
- One member of IPPF is Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which commits 165,167 surgical abortions a year and is the largest abortion provider in the United States.3
- The new boss of the Gates Foundation’s global health program is Trevor Mundel.
- By supporting the IPPF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports attacks on our children in the womb.
1Conception is the joining of sperm and egg.
2Gates Foundation web site.
3PPFA 1997–1998 annual report.
Lesson 9 – “Reproductive Rights”
| LESSON 9: Thanks to a generally sympathetic media industry, the population elimination movement controls the language of the debate. That’s why news reports so often refer to abortion, sterilization and birth control as “reproductive rights.” It’s also why you almost never hear about the true price women are paying for their “reproductive rights.” |
This is not a “reproductive right.”
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She’s just a little baby.
Here’s the view of “reproductive rights” you never see:
- Women who take the birth control pill are as much as 88% more likely to develop BREAST CANCER than those who don’t take the pill.1
- Women on the birth control pill are more likely to get AIDS from an infected partner.2
- Women have filed numerous lawsuits because of health problems due to Norplant®.3
- Women using Norplant® have suffered numerous health problems including BLINDNESS.4
- Women using mifepristone have suffered numerous health problems including DEATH.5
- A newlywed woman was PARALYZED by the effects of the birth control pill.6
- Teenagers have DIED from taking birth control pills.7
1 American Journal of Epidemiology, January 1, 1996
2 Dr. F. Plummer, Third Annual AIDS Conference, 1987
3 Associated Press, July 29, 1995
4 The Human Laboratory, BBC TV, November 5, 1995
5 The Quick and the Dead, George Grant, 1991, pp.48–49
6 Daily Mail, May 22, 1999
7 Evening Post, May 29, 1999, p.7
Lesson 10 – Poverty
| LESSON 10: The population elimination elite shrewdly portray conditions in developing countries so that wealthy guys like you become convinced that the most charitable thing you can do for these poor people is make sure they don’t give birth to even more poor people. But frankly, Bill, it’s time you heard from someone who’s in a better position to judge what these poor people really need. |
