It seems that as people get more wealthy (and kids don't die), they decide they don't need 6 kids to make sure someone is there to care for you in your old age.
And yes, even Muslims and Africans are limiting their offspring. Even here in the Catholic Philippines, where birth control was not supplied free to women, the average number of kids fell from 6 to slightly over 2 in the last 20 years.
and something else happened to stop the mass starvation predicted by these honored globalists: Norman Bourlag and the green revoution.
but hey, the population bomb went putz, so now it is global warming, aka climate change.
and of course, those pushing this also include pollution (not just nasty pollution but GM crops, pesticides and artificial fertilizers, along with chicken farms for poor people to eat chicken and eggs, and feed lots to produce cheap beef)
The latest hysteria: Bee Apocolypse.
My granddaughter Ruby at a PC NWO school in Canada has to read an R book about this: not just full of propaganda but a couple of perverted X rated scenes to make things interesting.
We grow organic rice, and I see no problem: it is healthier. But it is also more expensive and has a smaller crop. The government here and the Catholic church love organic foods, and thanks to the growing middle class here in Asia, there is indeed a market for our product.
But the dirty little secret is that without modern farming techniques, including hybrid seeds (and now GM seeds), fertilizer and pesiticides, you wouldn't have enough food for the large urban poor population: or if there was enough food, the poor wouldn't be able to afford it.
so essentially we are gourmet food producers, for the growing middle class, but import our cheaper rice from China, Thailand, and Vietnam, where they use chemicals galore, and have larger harvests.
Ah, but the author doesn't seem to be in favor of such things.
The book starts out with Chinese post apocoplypse farmers pollinating fruit trees by hand.
Well, they already do this in China, to improve the apple and pear harvest, but one wonders why: to make money of course. Not because people would starve without those fruits.
so what's the alternative when there are no more honeybees (aside from, maybe breeding GM bees who don't die from mites, which are why they are dying off)?
Heck, even MotherEarth News has an article pointing out that there are self pollinating apple trees available out there, and it only took two seconds of googling to find where to buy self pollinating pear trees.
Duh. Guess a book starting with Chinese farmers planting and harvesting self pollinating fruit trees just wouldn't have the same propaganda value.
And of course, it reminds one of the stupid agricultural shennanigans ordered on Chinese communes during the Great Leap forward: inefficient and mainly not helping the poor farmers, who often overworked doing stupid stuff while starving to death.
But never mind. This is a book in the latest genre of post climate change apocolypse fiction.
silly me. when I was growing up, the meme was post nuclear war fiction: but I guess that is out of date now.
of course, the Atlantic insists the depressing book does have a solution:
heh.
Lunde leaves open the possibility of a way of life that values the collective over the individual.
Can you say "socialism" people? New World Order dictatorship?
Sigh. Maybe my granddaughter's father was right (he opposed sending her there), but on the other hand, the X rated shennanigans going on here was the reason I helped her mother finance the move. (she got a full scholarship but we paid the plane ticket etc)...
But you know, when a school charges 30 thousand dollars a year tuition for high school, you do expect the kid to get a decent education, and learn to think.
That is what reading the classics and learning philosophy was all about, at least in the old days.
On the other hand, questioning stupidity is why they killed Socrates...
Mortimer Adler call your office. Homer and Luo Guanzhong are now banned as obsolete white men.
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