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The legend of overpopulation was born in the 1960s. Since then, population alarmists have fantasised that global overpopulation will cause mass migration, overcrowded slums and megacities covering continents, diseases and pollution, chaos and violence over energy, water and food, and humans focussed only on sustaining themselves.
Even using the guestimates of current global populations, these apocalyptic prophecies are not true.
Interestingly, the 2016 video above was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Considering Gates is overly keen on vaccines which are doing more harm than good and often seen as one of the Globalists’ depopulation tools, perhaps Bill Gates is regretting he helped put out a video that debunks the overpopulation myth.
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The following is the article ‘Is Overpopulation a Myth?’ published by Science Alert on 28 December 2016.
There are currently around 7.47 billion people living on our planet, a figure that’s made all the crazier when you consider that there were only 2.3 billion in 1940. But as that number continues to steadily rise, what will it mean for us as a civilisation?
Overpopulation is one of those issues that many people think might lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. And on paper, it makes sense: if we have too many people, we will exhaust our resources, leading to famine, war, and many other devastating issues. David Attenborough certainly thinks so.
The problem here, though, is that overpopulation isn’t really that simple. The good news for us is that Kurzgesagt is back with another video (above) to break down the truth behind the hype.
As the video explains, the concern about overpopulation started back in the 1960s when a population boom – spurred on by the end of World War II – caused a bunch of doomsday hypotheses to emerge about what would happen if the Earth were covered head-to-toe in humanity. Eventually, cities would be overrun and we’d all run out of resources, right?
Kurzgesagt argues that this is a misconception because population growth is not a runaway problem. It’s controlled by a four-stage process that is intricately connected to economics, and much of the world has already been through most of the steps.
This four-step process – known as the demographic transition – is a model of how populations change over time in industrialised societies. In summary, the transition happens when economies foster better life expectancy, leading to a boom, then a slowdown, and finally an evening off of population growth.
To illustrate this, the video jumps back to the 18th century when the world wasn’t as industrialised as it is today. Back then, women had, on average, between four and six children, though only two of them were likely to make it to adulthood, meaning that a lot of people were born during this time, but many died. This is stage one.
But that high mortality rate shifted once the Industrial Revolution took place because it allowed families to flourish more than ever before. Now, instead of having only two out of five children reach adulthood, all five of them were reaching it, creating the population boom that characterises stage two.
After parents realised that children would make it through childhood, they stopped having so many, and population growth slowed – creating stage three – because parents were only having two or three children instead of the previous five or six.
Eventually, in stage four, society had advanced enough to the point that fewer people were dying and fewer babies were born every year, creating a balanced system that many industrialised nations are still maintaining to this day, according to the video.
But if this balance exists, why do we still hear the term “overpopulation” thrown around all the time? We’ll let Kurzgesagt explain in the video above, but it just goes to show that nothing is as black and white as we think it is – not even overpopulation.
[Related: Where did the myth of overpopulation come from?]
Featured image: What Is the Malthusian Theory of Population? Economics Online, 29 July 2021
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Obviously begun by eugenicists.
I spent most of my life in Southeast Asia. Allow a household to buy a TV and a washing machine, and watch natality plummet from eight kids per family to one or two max. Or even zero, what with continued urbanization — people moving to tiny shoeboxes where they can be alone, play with their iPhone, and watch Netflix. The trappings of middle-class life instantly turn having a baby into a luxury, and folks are eager to play the game. The way westerners picture this part of the world – jungles and rice fields and fishermen – that was 60 years ago.
Exactly where they want people so they can control every aspect of life!
The legend of overpopulation was born in 1798 aka The Malthusian Catastrophe (ie wars, famine, disease will occur when human population growth rate exceeds food growth rate) not in the 1960s.
The only dangerous overpopulation is about one meager percent.
Yes… the “elite” themselves!
Hi Rhoda,
I have mentioned this before.
In the UK 25 years ago, the population was going down.
I remember thinking, good, everything our ancestors built will last longer.
The roads, the motorways, the bridges, the sewage systems, the old buildings.
So what did our government do ?
They let into the country another 25 million people.
Now the countryside is being destroyed for new housing projects.
Over population and migration replacement are not the issue.
It is the infrastucture overload incapacity that then leads to dysfuncntional mal-contented society;
A signifcant list of infrastucture incapacity; Housing, school places, diminished pensions, sewers, jobs, and NHS chaos define the infrastucture capacity.
All of which becomes dysfunctional governance and breakdown of society.
The optomists believe even Africa will reduce from 5:1 child bearing to a sustainable 2:1 in the next 100 years.
Tell that to those who cannot get an NHS appointment, or buy a house.
Obviously, as we are witnessing, as the population increases, life in this world becomes better and better!! 🥹 😅 😂 🤣 🥲 😀
According to “Them”, the overpopulation is caused by Humans (Whites)
and that is why “They” are replacing us with 3rd World Coloreds!
Overpopulation is real. The planet is overrun by humans who destroy and consume everything. We aren’t governing ourselves so they will govern us for us. That is to say, if we won’t control our own procreation habits, they will control it for us.