Demographic Bomb - the movie that says demography is destiny

Andrea Mrozek

What should we make of a movie claiming the human family is headed for decline?

When World Population Day came and went on July 11, it was with all the requisite fear mongering about there being too many people on the globe. [1] This accepted view—the fear of people falling off the globe causing grave environmental damage even as they go— is not true. Under population is in fact likely the more pressing problem in our future, not merely in rich industrialized countries, but everywhere. This sounds so foreign as to be false, which is evidence of the ubiquity and success of Malthus and his modern followers— those who believe societal ills could be staved off were there only fewer people on the planet.

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/review_demographic_bomb_-_the_movie_the_says_demography_is_destiny/

Iran’s plummeting birth rates

Michael Cook

Despite its fundamentalist Islamic reputation Iran has experimented with birth control with some unexpected, and unwelcome, consequences. If demography is destiny, the family of Farzaneh Roudi is a snapshot of Iran’s past, present and future. A program director at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC, Ms Roudi was born in Iran. Her grandmother had 11 children, her father had 6 and she has 2.

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/irans_plummeting_birth_rates/

American Babies Are Ruining Everything

WILLIAM MCGURN
The truth is more brains will likely mean cleaner energy technologies.

Forget about the birthers, and the nutty claims that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. More and more, we are hearing from people who might best be described as anti-birthers. Their claims have nothing to do with long- versus short-form Hawaiian birth certificates. Instead, they advance a simple proposition: that the birth of each additional American child is a kind of calamity for the environment. The most recent example of anti-birth thinking comes from Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax of Oregon State University. In a study called “Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals,” they suggest that if you truly care about the environment, it’s not enough to trade your SUV for a Prius, use the right lightbulbs, or limit your lawn to organic fertilizers. To the contrary, you need to start thinking about something way more important: i.e., having one less child.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574328823712388930.html

Demographic Bomb

Part two of Demographic Winter, Demographic Bomb came out June 29th. This movie features a video clip of Dr. J! Check it out here!

Billionaires agree to overcome religious obstacles to controlling population

Times Online: “SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education . . . convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.”

http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/05/27/billionaires-agree-to-overcome-religious-obstacles-to-controlling-population/

Population Control Group Says Australia Must Adopt One-Child Policy

LifeSite News reported last week that Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), a population control pressure group, has issued a call for the Australian government to adopt a one-child policy to ensure Australia's economic and environmental sustainability. SPA said that the 22 million people currently living in Australia must be reduced to 7 million and that restricting families to one child, just as China does, is "one way of assisting to reduce the population" and avoiding "environmental suicide."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=505850

Holy See proposes alternative to new U.S. population policy

New York City, N.Y., Apr 2, 2009 / 09:22 am (CNA).- Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a strongly worded speech yesterday, sharply criticizing the “population reduction” mentality defended by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Planned Parenthood gala last Friday.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15568

Brazil: soap opera sociology as birth control

by Carolyn Moynihan

Why would an aid agency be interested in television soap operas? Because the agencies like to see the population growth of developing countries slowing down, and because soap operas in one developing country seem to be linked with lower fertility.

In Brazil, where population growth is down to 1.1 per cent, about 40 million people watch the mid-evening telenovela from Globo, the leading television network. The action often takes place in Rio de Janiero, where Globo is based, among families which are smaller, whiter and richer than average. The scriptwriters have, let's say, an agenda. "Their plots often tilt in a progressive direction: AIDS is discussed, condoms are promoted and social mobility is exemplified," reports The Economist.

http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/brazil_soap_opera_sociology_as_birth_control/#comments

Is Having More Than Two Children Selfish?

From OneNewsNow:

There's a new campaign in Britain to encourage couples to limit their family size to two children. See BBC News. The Optimum Population Trust (OPT) is launching the online pledge campaign, called "Stop at Two" this week. Jonathon Porritt is a patron of OPT and says that parents who have more than two children are "irresponsible" for putting a burden on resources and damaging eco-systems. The OPT believes that the future of the planet should play a large part in planning a family, and Porritt says "I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible."

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Green eugenics

by Bill Muehlenberg

Population control has gone from culling the ‘unfit’ to finding the whole human race a nuisance.

Who wants to be a eugenicist? Not President Barack Obama, I’m sure, and yet his reversing of the Mexico City Policy, which banned US foreign monies from going into organisations which perform or refer women for abortions, makes him an accomplice of a movement whose great aim, in the words of patron saint Margaret Sanger, is to stop the “unfit” breeding.

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