Population
Implosion
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Or, It’s Not da Bomb, But
the ‘Black
Hole’ We Should
Be Getting Worried About
When It Comes to How
Many People Are
on Earth
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1. Once Upon a Time, the Population Exploded +++
Certain fairy tales have an enduring charm. Take, for instance, the
fantasy of a worldwide ‘population explosion’. Not that we pretend
earth’s human population hasn’t grown huge during the past century
or so. But, in the late 1960s and on into the early 1970s, various scholars at
prestigious universities successfully touted the idea there were ‘too
many people’ for the earth to handle; that it was just a matter of a
little time for massive starvation and death to strike down millions or
billions of humans around the globe.
Why?
Because the earth ‘cannot handle’ so many voracious
eaters, said they.
Besides which, added they, humans are so polluting, greedy &
disgusting.
I can agree with the latter statement somewhat. Human beings really
can be dirty, greedy & disgusting at times. Yet the
former? That the earth can’t handle ‘too
many’ of us? No, I dare to disagree with that one. Up in arms yet?
Ready to blast me as an ‘ignoramus’?
Too bad. I’m university educated &
degreed. And I was once a ZPGer.
Or, if you will, a proponent of ‘Zero Population Growth’
(ZPG).
So… so much for that criticism of me. I know the arguments inside &
out, from both sides of the
debate. And I’ve not
abandoned the ZPG stance out of whim or a supposed ‘lack of
knowledge’. I’m perfectly familiar with all of the arguments, purported logic & alleged facts
regarding a ‘population threat’. Remember? I once believed in them as a clever
little student at a huge university, my college dean encouraging me to get a
Ph.D. and become a professor. So what
would cause an educated person like myself to change
my mind completely and do a total flip flop? What on earth happened
to my thinking?
Oh, tiny little things like further
logical analysis and examination
of the facts.
You know, that sort of thing. Yes --- the
horror! --- a ‘ruthless’ rationality.
But do you think this issue is passé, no longer a major
influence on the world --- that is, thinking that there are ‘too many
people’ living upon the earth? Ah, well then, you aren’t too clued
in to the academic mood of contemporary times. In November of 2017, 15,364 scientists publicly
signed & released the World
Scientists’ Warning to Humanity. These scientists called for, amongst
other things, limiting population
growth. Its lead author, William J. Ripple, is a professor of ecology
at my very own alma mater &
university. Technically, it’s their ‘Second Notice’,
as published in an eminent science
journal, BioScience, and has more scientist cosigners & formal
supporters than any other scientific journal article put forth in
history ever, period. So… passé or irrelevant?
Not at all. Not one bit. It is here, now,
and these people, collectively, are influential.
(Incidentally, if one is skeptical or curious of the assertions I
make above, peruse the ‘Second Notice’ of World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, in PDF format, at the
URL,
https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/sw/files/Warning_article_with_supp_11-13-17.pdf,
which is where they have posted it as of 15 September 2019.)
Consequently, their actions will
impact your life, whether you
realize it or not.
I suggest you realize it. Better to be wise than blind… even
if you’re nobody.
Yet are their concerns --- scientists though they be --- actually relevant?
Here’s where it’s odd. Because back
in the late ’60s or early ’70s, it seemed plausible.
Especially with the mainstream media of the time pushing it everywhere, like
crusaders for the ‘gospel’. A Mr. Paul Ehrlich was the main person
pushing for fear of a population ‘bomb’ or ‘explosion’
that would doom millions or billions of human beings to death & horrible
starvation. To be fair to Mr. Ehrlich, who is a biologist & hence a
scientist, he wasn’t the first to champion this idea. Other scientists
during the 1950s & early ’60s vaunted similar concerns prior to him.
So he wasn’t alone, or a solitary ‘loony’ who espoused this
‘never-before-heard-of’ idea. It’s just that Ehrlich hit the
sweet spot.
He was ‘charismatic’ (read: really roused people with his personality & speeches),
having, in addition, a great deal of ‘media savvy’ (read: knew how to get his message noticed,
taken seriously, appear interesting or essential, and generate publicity).
It also helps to be the right person at the right time. That is to
say, prior to 1965 and a Great Apostasy breaking out into the open
everywhere, all over the world --- as a real & wise Roman Catholic would
describe it --- the world just wasn’t quite ready to believe in
this fear of ‘overpopulation’, that the earth could only handle
‘so many’ human beings. Whereas, in the wake of the Vatican
II Pseudo-Council and resultant loss of any true restraint on Lucifer, the
Ancient Enemy of Humankind, enough people’s earnestly deluded minds were
ready to swallow whole the notion of impending doom.
And their fear was partially
justified. Adequately intelligent human beings have what Catholics call the
‘Law of Natural Reason’ upon their hearts. This Natural Reason,
even amidst the Great Apostasy… when Our Creator punishes us with removal of graces to see or seek for His
One True Religion of Catholicism Whole & Undefiled, His Sole Means of
Salvation, what Roman Catholic theologians describe as the ‘Amos
Curse’… is sufficient to
know that you’re being bad. You’re simply left with very little
help from Heaven to overcome this. Ergo,
you fear the punishments yet to come. Modern human beings are never exempt
from this. We know, deep down, how we deserve
God’s Wrath for some terrible sins, not least of which is utter rejection of anything to do with
Catholicity. It’s written in our hearts! Therefore, we are afraid. Yet
can modern humans afford to admit the most frightening thing by far is everlasting hell, or natural afflictions sent by God?
No, they can’t. Which is why they find
other reasons to justify a fearful foreboding.
Not that these reasons can’t be real or authentic in and of
themselves.
It’s simply that they avoid the utmost imperative thing.
Contemporary human beings have a lot of fears. What psychologists
would label ‘neuroses’. We’re afraid
of terrorism and terrorist attacks, be they of the foreign kind or so-called
‘homegrown’ domestic attacks. We’re afraid of climate change
and its possible repercussions, what used to be known as ‘global
warming’. We fear asteroid impacts and imminent collapse of all life or
civilization. The list can go on and on… and on. Some of these fears have
legitimacy. Some are overblown. Some are rather groundless. It doesn’t
matter. None of them are as dangerous as the threat of eternal damnation.
And so we envision all kinds of post-apocalyptic or dystopian futures.
All the while we suppress the uncomfortable truth:
That we’re very abominable rebels like Lucifer.
And thus deserve
earthly & hellish torments.
The myth of ‘overpopulation’ is a convenient bogie. The idea that the earth can only handle ‘so many’ human
beings. The notion that we already have, or soon will,
surpass this ‘limit’. The supposition that it’s
‘impossible’ for the global human population to be far bigger than
it is and still be able to successfully distribute the world’s resources
and feed humanity adequately. And the fairy tale that it’s totally up to
us, human beings, determining how many kids we will, or won’t, have. That we’re in full ‘control’.
Rather self-flattering, isn’t it? Charades
as ‘humble’… but reeks of arrogance.
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2. Reality Bites: Actually, We’re Imploding +++
In reality, the global human population is imploding.
Yes, you heard correctly. Demographers (specialists who study population statistically and analyze, describe
or predict human population trends, etc., etc.) have been trying to tell
us, for a decade or two, that we’re reaching critical terminal velocity
when it comes to the next few generations --- particularly in the most
modernized, communized or socialized parts of the world. To wit, too few people
are choosing to have children.
For a population to be stable, every man & woman that couples
must bear at least two children. This then replaces the father & mother
when they die, keeping humanity from shrinking in overall numbers. Oh, but
it’s a little more complicated than that. You see, a thing called
‘death’ occurs. And not just to the elderly, those expected to die.
Babies sometimes die. Teenagers occasionally kick the bucket. People in middle
age have cardiac arrest, cancer, strokes, car wrecks, suicide or what-have-you.
The upshot?
To keep a human population stable, every man & woman that
couples must bear, on average, 2.1 children just to make certain
humanity’s overall numbers don’t shrink. And, since nobody can have
‘one tenth of a child’, then, obviously, this means some men and
women must have a third child, or a fourth, or even a fifth. Just so long as it all averages out, as a whole, to a stable and
basically non-fluctuating population. To have a slightly growing population,
the average amount of children per couple must rise to 2.2.
Question --- have human beings, globally speaking, been hitting 2.1
or 2.2?
Answer --- nope, not lately. Worldwide, human fertility is
collapsing.
Apart from a few Mideast nations, and most of the continent of
Right. In 1 or 2 centuries, at current rates,
people could disappear from earth.
Alarmist? No, not really. Because before we could
get anywhere near to hardcore extinction, national economies will collapse.
Comprehend? If not enough younger people, then who replaces the workers who
retire? And who cares for them when they’re feeble & crippled, or
diseased & dying? Oh, and how about social programs designed to provide for
senior citizens after they’ve retired? Nations don’t actually
‘save’ the taxes meant to pay these older folks ‘social
security’ or whatever… did you know that? In reality, the taxes we
pay right now, out of our present paychecks, is what goes to providing these
older folks’ retirement money or what-have-you. So, with a very shrinking
pool of younger workers or self-employed persons --- then where does retirement money come from? Magically out of thin
air? Oh, you poor, naïve & charmingly deluded soul. Either they
don’t get benefits, or else benefits shrink dramatically, or else fewer
younger people pay way higher taxes to cover it.
Getting the idea? Ah, but that’s not all. Lots of other
problems arise, too.
For example, certain industries depend upon juveniles or the young.
Who will be purchasing toys when fewer and fewer children are around to want
them? Or how about diapers, strollers, playpens,
child’s garments, and so forth and so on? Who will need lots of
teachers as the number of children entering public schools shrinks
precipitously? Right --- as a population collapses sharply, businesses &
governments will be hard pressed to find solutions to these difficulties and
many others that we haven’t even mentioned. Additionally, did you know
that younger people, by far, are the biggest ‘consumers’ we have
when it comes to routine spending of money for various things like flat screen
TVs, the latest smartphone released, the most fashionable of clothing, going
out to restaurants, and etc., etc., etc? Less young people --- in our part of
the world, at least --- means way less money spent, way less money earned for
businesses, and thus said businesses way less profitable, with corresponding
reduction of employees since they don’t make enough to be able to employ
so many people… if there’s
even enough people left to hire. Get it? Revenues from taxes then decrease
at shockingly fast rates as less & less workers,
and less companies and corporations (leastwise,
much impoverished businesses…), are there to pay them. An
infrastructure still requiring our support --- like vast social programs or
healthcare, etc. --- will overwhelm the rapidly decreasing means to fund them.
In other words, whilst one could intelligently imagine carefully & slowly
shrinking population, preventing these financial crises, a dramatic plunge
is different. It creates pure chaos.
Which then breeds poverty, makes us scared & angry, and
overthrows governments.
Got it now? This is what we’re facing. Not a population bomb. Rather, collapse.
Yet don’t take my word for it. How about Mr. Elon Musk? I.e., the man who either founded or joined ‘little’
tech & engineering companies like Space X or Tesla. Right… that Mr. Musk. Famous for his
all-electric Tesla cars, and for launching his own personal cherry red Tesla
Roadster on a brand new Falcon Heavy rocket out to the orbit of Mars, it is
essentially indisputable that he’s a cool geek and really smart guy. What
has he recently said about the earth’s population situation when it comes
to humanity?
In a live-streamed debate Elon Musk held with Asian industry giant
Alibaba chairman, Jack Ma, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held
in Shanghai, China, on 29 August 2019, in front of a large crowd (the curious
or skeptical reader may find the video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lUEnMaiAU, as of 15 September 2019), Elon
Musk stated, in response to Mr. Ma’s reflection on China’s low
birth rate, among other comments, “Most people think we have too many
people on the planet, but actually
this is an outdated view. Assuming that AI [artificial intelligence] is fine --- we’re assuming
there’s a benevolent future with AI --- I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse. Collapse: I want to emphasize this.
The biggest issue in 20 years will be population collapse, NOT explosion, COLLAPSE.” To which Mr. Ma replied, “I absolutely agree with that, the population
will be facing a huge challenge.”
And Mr. Musk went on to observe how such “accelerating collapse” WILL NOT
BE ABLE to be ‘checked’ by immigration. Noted Musk,
“The common rebuttal is, ‘Well, what about immigration?’ Like from where?” In other words, IF the whole world is having ridiculously few children, THEN THERE ARE TOO FEW TO MIGRATE.
End of sentence.
(Quote source given above. All emphases & annotation added here
or just below.)
Musk also remarked in a tweet from July 2017 regarding the human
population:
“…[We’re]…accelerating towards collapse, but
few seem to notice or care.”
¿Comprende, mi amigo? This is the
reality we face. Too few, too fast.
You might not think much of my assertions since I’m a nobody.
Yet Mr. Elon Musk and Mr. Jack Ma agree with me.
Hm. How ’bout that? Logic transcends
prestige.
But it’s nice the rich smart dudes back me up.
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3. Sizing Up the Shrinkage +++
(How Bad… and Why?)
To be as fair as possible to the esteemed Paul Ehrlich --- the one
who kicked off the whole ‘we’ve-got-way-too-many-humans-on-the-earth-and-we’re-headed-for-disaster’
scare --- he likes to say, in later years, that his ‘warnings’ are,
at a bare minimum, in part responsible for the rapidly dropping fertility of
contemporary human beings. That may be correct. Wouldn’t
want to rob him of his dues. Howsoever, these are rather dubious dues.
Wanna be the guy blamed, by our future generations, for a global
collapse & chaos?
Yeah. That’s a dubious distinction or honor. “You
destroyed human civilization.”
Perhaps Mr. Ehrlich, before he passes from this world, might like
to apologize.
“Sorry about that ‘population bomb’ scare thing. Went a little overboard.”
Better yet. How about he
works hard to get people to increase fertility?
Ah, but let’s not indulge fantasies. Or, as a Catholic,
demand miracles. Mr. Ehrlich, potentially, might come to his senses and be
intrepid enough, and humble enough, to correct himself
and try to set the record straight, warning us of the imminent population
collapse on the near horizon, yet what about explanations? Yes, Paul
Ehrlich has a lion’s share of the credit for popularizing the
‘population explosion’ myth (although,
to be fair again, there’s that crusading mainstream media that
doesn’t seem to care so much about hard news & accurate reporting,
instead indulging one faddish ‘cause’ to get behind, and be a
cheerleader for, after another…), but why would people appear
to buy into his claim so fervently, like religious converts, and continue to
believe in it long after it’s plain, to the intelligent & honest
person, that this is a bunch of hokum? What’s motivating us human
beings to cling to this myth like an earnest acolyte? What’s in it for us?
But first, how about the hard demographic data? Just how bad is it, really?
(By the way, sources for this data are the United
Nations’ World Bank, our own
Well, for instance, what’s the least fertile nation on earth right now?
Per the World Bank, it’s
Puerto Rico, a part of the
We can go on tediously. Leaving out citation of the exact source,
try these:
The list can continue until some 200 or so nations or areas are
tabulated.
According to World Bank statistics, based on 2017 data, only 90 of the 200 countries
they list are still beyond the 2.1 average children necessary to keep a
nation’s population above stable. Repeat --- STABLE. All other nations, etc.,
as of 2017, are barely stable or shrinking. Repeat --- SHRINKING. Population momentum, globally speaking, will
keep the earth’s human numbers rising till 2050 at the very latest, based
on current trends. Notwithstanding, fertility-wise, the world is already collapsing, bar sudden reversal.
Meanwhile, please get it through your head… apart from most
of Africa and a tiny amount of countries elsewhere… the fertility rates
just cited from reputable data are merely a freeze frame of the year 2017. Fertility rates have been
plunging dramatically everywhere on earth for at least the last two decades.
Ergo, both the approximately
110 nations, etc., at or below replacement rate in 2017 are almost surely now,
in 2019, lower than they
were, fertility-wise, in 2017, and
the approximately 90 nations, etc., still above the replacement rate in 2017
are almost certainly now, as of 2019, yet further down than they were, fertility-wise, in 2017, if not already
--- some of them, leastwise --- at the minimum replacement level or even today
in the below-replacement-level zone.
Understanding now? Fertility rates are in a global free fall. NOT
a gradual slowdown. NOR
a static level that just happens to be the replacement level. To the
contrary, with but a few exceptions, the great majority of countries’ fertility rates are skydiving into levels
astonishingly lower than the
replacement rate of 2.1, and, with NO
reason to think this long time trend will suddenly & unexpectedly reverse
itself, THEN demographers and
intelligent observers are left with every reason to expect human numbers to collapse.
And, as Mr. Musk commented in 2017, “…but
few seem to notice or care.”
That’s how bad it is. Leaving us
with the other query… WHY?
Why are most of
us today refusing, or unable, to have babies?
I know the chapter’s title
suggests we’ll answer it here.
But let’s break it down with the
next two chapters.
+++ 4. Kids Are a Pain (the Physical Reason) +++
To say you’re concerned about
having children because the earth has ‘too many’ people already; or
because this will worsen ‘climate change’ all the more; or because
this would increase the demand on limited ‘natural resources’, and
so forth and so on… is a ‘noble-sounding’ reason to many, if
not most, persons nowadays in a most modernized part of the globe. It makes you
appear ‘elevated’ in your sentiments or more aware in your
‘environmental consciousness’. You’re kind of patting
yourself on your own back.
I mean, who isn’t worried about
‘climate change’ or ‘environmental degradation’?
Um… yet is this the real reason, or only reason, for not having any
offspring?
Let’s get real. Let’s talk
about life, money, politics & pleasure.
First off. Is life
‘easier’ without kids? Answer: why yes, yes it can be. Children are
a responsibility. They make you lose sleep. They can be misbehaved. They can be
rather disrespectful, and insulting when they’re older but still not old
enough to be on their own. They can make a parent moan and say, “What was
I thinking wanting to have a child?”
Just keeping it
real. And honest. Even a true Catholic can have
these moments.
So, upshot? Yes, in some
ways, children can make your life more difficult.
Second thing,
though. Do kids cost you a bunch of money? Answer: why yes, yes they can.
Especially in the present day, when people expect --- even demand! --- that
certain things be done for, or given to, a child since the
‘right-thinking’ person (lately)
simply must --- must! --- make sure the offspring has the latest fashions, a
smartphone, some form of transportation, the most cutting edge laptop or tablet
for education or fun, a university education, or etc., etc., to be a
‘good’ parent. And don’t get me started speaking about the
costs to give birth in a hospital with medical technology.
Just trying to
be accurate. And candid. Children can cost a lot of
money.
So, outcome? Yes, in many
ways, children can make you pay for it.
Number three, however. Will
today’s politics make you think twice before having a child? Or a second child? Or a third, etc.?
Answer: why yes, yes today’s politics tend to make the average person
question the wisdom of having kids. So-called climate change is causing tons of
young adults to ask if it’s the ‘right thing to do’ in having
a child. Endless preaching in the mainstream or social media, or in schools,
about the ‘burden’ upon this earth of ‘too many’ human
beings is causing tons of people to reject a first, second or third child. And
who wants to be glared at by others when you go out into public, accompanied by
a gaggle of offspring? Those stares can be… intimidating.
Just telling it like it is. And frankly. Children aren’t so popular anymore.
So, the gist? Yes, in lots of
ways, children are no longer so fashionable.
And what about number four? Isn’t
it way tougher to have fun when kids are around? Answer: why yes, yes in many,
many respects life is less fun & pleasurable with children there to
‘imprison’ you and sting your conscience. Tougher to fornicate,
sleep around and commit adultery. Tougher to feel okay about
using recreational drugs, particularly illegal ones. Tougher
to focus entirely upon your career or business and climbing the ladder of
‘success’. Tougher to have plenty of ‘me time’
and relax. Tougher to take off whenever you want, to do whatever you want,
anywhere you want. Kids cramp your lifestyle.
Just pointing
out the facts. And bluntly. Children tend to take away
your options.
So, conclusion? Yes, in plenty
of ways, children are a total & utter killjoy.
But do I believe all of this? Yes and
no. Perspective is everything.
If the most important thing in your
life is making life easier, making more money (and spending it however you wish…), making people approve of
you (the ones whose opinion matter to
you, at least…), and having as much carnal or worldly pleasure as you
possibly can, then kids are a pain.
Who in the world would want to have them? Which is what more & more of the
world thinks lately --- in spite of claiming to care about them.
On the other hand, as a Catholic parent
of a lot of children (by today’s
standards in our part of the world), I can honestly tell you that the
trade-off is more than worth it. What a child gives to you, in this world and (as a Catholic) in the world-to-come,
far more than outweighs what people today think that they lose. So… are
the reasons people regularly mention for not having any or many children truly
the real reasons, or only reasons?
Oh my. Good thing I’m an imp.
Otherwise I’d feel bad for what I’m about to say.
No. I’m calling you out. The
emperor has no clothes. Regardless of some people’s reasons being true
& legitimate some of the time, the biggest --- and most whelming ---
reason today’s human beings don’t choose to have kids, or very many
kids, is what we’ve noted just above. To wit, they make life ‘difficult’,
you’re less wealthy, more
people will approve of you
having none in the present time or treat you like you’re a freak if you have ‘too
many’, and it’s way harder
to party hardy and get your kicks in this life.
In short, the present culture makes you
feel ‘noble’ for being a selfish prig.
+++ 5. Kids Are a Blessing (the Spiritual Reason) +++
But what about
Lucifer’s point of view in all of this?
You know, the devil or satan. I mean, I am a real Roman Catholic. I
therefore of a necessity believe in his existence. And that he’s
humanity’s enemy, as well as the enemy of Our Creator,
including the Triune God’s Second Person’s Mother, the Blessed
Ever-Virgin Mary. What’s
Lucifer’s interest in humans having, or not having, children?
Remember --- or realize for the first
time --- that a real Catholic professes ‘no Salvation outside the Roman
Catholic Church’ with no ifs, ands or buts.
There are no ‘loopholes’, like, say, for example, supposed
‘ignorance’. (Pssst… read
Helplessly Ignorant
if you think I’m making this up, or being ‘too
strict’. God’s
He would attempt to get as many people
as he can into the Pit of Hell, and he would correspondingly attempt to get as
many people as he can to be evil as possible, so as to offend Our Maker all the
more, spite God’s Mother to the highest degree he may, and so ensure even
worse punishment upon this world and more human souls in the hereafter.
Fathom what we’re saying? Find it
hard to believe? Maybe you’re not truly Catholic.
Because this is precisely what
he’s doing, and it makes strategic military sense.
Put in terms of children, the human family --- and the two sexes --- is
indeed how Almighty God
ensures that little human beings, made in His Image, can comprehend Eternal Life to come. Destroy that comprehension
by destroying human families,
and Lucifer engenders far more mayhem, confusion, darkness, sin &
punishment. People have difficulty understanding that which is invisible. They tend to get
preoccupied dealing with an everyday visible life, brief though this life be. With the ‘traditional’
family, and a real Catholicity,
most people have a far better shot at understanding Our Lord’s Heavenly Fatherhood, Our Lady’s
Celestial Motherhood, and the
fact that Her Son, Jesus Christ, is the Everlasting Husband of His Immortal Body & Wife, composed of Catholics who, in the end, die a good
death in the state of grace and consummate
this Spiritual Marriage in Heaven Above via the Beatific Vision, forever & ever, amen.
A Spiritual
Marriage that is Fruitful, being an Eternally Divine FAMILY.
Making a little more sense? Oh, I hope
& pray so. The world is so dark.
We need a lot more light. Heavenly Light. Roman Catholic Truth.
The truth is,
children are a blessing. The truth is, there can never be ‘too
many’ kids, or humanity’s population ‘too much’ for the
earth. The same Uncreated Creator Who made everything out of nothing, ex nihilo, can easily provide for
however many human beings there are --- especially when we’re being real
& good Catholics. The truth is, the more human beings, the more people
there are to be truly Catholic, and the more souls there exist to attain to
heavenly salvation, and the sooner this old world can be completed.
Starting to grasp Lucifer’s
challenge? And thus his consequent spiritual strategy?
He must keep human beings from being
truly Catholic… or from dying as good Catholics… in order to stave
off his eventual defeat & punishment. Spiritual blindness and maximum
wickedness achieve this goal spectacularly. In the meantime, slaughter of
unborn babes does two things: increase hugely the number of souls in hell, even
if only in the Limbo of the Babes, as well-informed Catholics call it; and make
the murderers of the babes, and all of those who freely approve of this
widespread massacre of innocents, all the more wicked, offending God, depriving
Mary of more spiritual children, not to mention increasing the torments
suffered by such evil souls if they wind up in hell.
Forsooth, if you can believe it, a
clinically-monikered ‘abortion’ is one of his satanic
‘sacraments’, inverting the order of the world, pretending that
truth is falsehood and good evil, thereby attaining to yet larger power in this
fallen world, increasing his ability to do iniquity exponentially, and
guaranteeing that God’s Wrath will be exponentially greater.
Nor be sidetracked by the deceptively
‘irrefutable’ argument that the earth can only handle ‘so
many’ human beings. Demographers claim we have nearly 8 billion people
alive today all over the world. That sounds impressive. For the thoroughly
Modernist person, it sounds alarming & scary. When, truthfully, it is a drop
in the bucket. Earth possesses about 57.51 million square miles of land.
Dividing our global population with earth’s global land surface, you have
just a little over 139.1 persons per square mile. Such a number sounds like a
lot, if fully accurate. But take a minute to think a little bit. E.g., in
We do not pretend the entire terrestrial
surface is easily inhabitable. Nor do we audaciously claim humanity will reach,
say, a population of 100 billion or thereabouts, hypothetically --- nor, as a
Catholic, would God necessarily allow us to reach that huge number. For, as
much as it irks a modernized human being, Our Uncreated Creator really is in
ultimate control of how fertile we are. Even if we suddenly change and begin to
try to have far more children, it’s ultimately in His Power to grant us
children or not. Nor should we place trust in the most ‘advanced’
medical technology, artificially upping human fertility. Even were it
permissible, for real Catholics to practice such a thing, Almighty God is not
‘usurped’ in such a facile & childish way. He calls the shots;
humans are subject to Him. We only deceive ourselves thinking such technology
‘outfoxes’ Our Maker and enables us to call the ultimate shots on
our fertility.
No, all we’re doing is putting
things into proportion for the honest reader.
Earth is larger than we think, and more
people can live together than we realize.
And food? We’ve
already found out, in the past half century, that, with more people and more
effort, we can grow far more to eat than simplistically thought when Paul R.
Ehrlich alarmed educated people, along with many persons with less learning via
the media, with his erroneous predictions. Millions and billions of humans DID
NOT DIE due to massive starvation as a result of an
inability to grow enough food, in the wake of his late 1960s & early 1970s
claims. HE WAS FLAT OUT WRONG. He may have swayed many to bear fewer children,
yet earth’s population is now way larger than he simplistically
thought it was possible for the earth to support. Viz., there were about 3.5 billion humans when he
started to sound his alarm, asserting confidently ‘hundreds of
millions’ would die of starvation in the 1970s as a result of earth &
humanity’s ‘inability’ to support us.
How many on earth
now? Ah, yes, nearly 8 billion humans
per demographers.
This is more than DOUBLE the amount of humans living circa 1970.
A tad off the
mark? Absolutely. It is today inarguable.
As a Roman Catholic scholar, I can
confidently say that, when lots of people starve, it results mostly from a few
things. One, drought --- when too little rain or snow falls,
it is hard for plants or animals to thrive. Two, blight --- when a disease
annihilates the crops, it is hard for humans to survive. Three, insects ---
when, for instance, locusts swarm, the harvests diminish horribly and it is
hard for humans to live. Four, war --- when humans fight terribly, and whether
or not an enemy purposefully destroys your fields, it is hard for humans to
grow & reap food needed to continue existing. And five, greed or sheer
carelessness, perhaps even cruelty --- when humans do not fairly distribute the
bounty borne by God’s earth, it is hard for humans to get what they need
in order to remain healthy & living. There are other causes, too. These are
the main ones, howsobeit.
Is God in ultimate control of all of
these factors? As Roman Catholic, I say yes.
I also dare to say that God can make
crops far more abundant as He sees fit.
Which, in turn, often depends on how bad
or good humans are being.
We are made in His Image. This makes us
as humans priceless.
And it makes our children…
literally… a blessing.
+++ 6. A Barren Earth +++
Sacred Scripture tells us human beings
began in the
Those who take this seriously usually
think of St. Adam as ‘tending’ this Garden.
Correctly speaking, though, this is not
true. Nowhere does Genesis or any scriptural passage say that God placed Adam
in the
It could do just fine without tending. That’s
part of what made it
Savvy?
No, the more profound point &
understanding is the following:
That
mere humans were the most crucial
thing, by far, God planted in
We
were to ‘dress’ & ‘keep’
ourselves;
as His slaves we were His premiere
crop.
Yes, you read that correctly. We were
the Almighty Maker’s most prized ‘plant’.
A plant that
went to weed with Original
Sin. Ergo, why
we were thrown out.
Our Maker did, though, instruct us to,
“Increase and multiply, and fill the earth…” (Genesis 1:28
DRC) This instruction did NOT go away just because we were evil and needed to
be thrown out of the
Why?
Per several Catholic saints --- and the
Church of Rome has never forbade holding the explanation they proffer
--- it is for the purpose of filling the angelic thrones in Heaven that were
abandoned by those celestial creatures who chose to follow Lucifer in his
rebellion against God. That’s right. Foolish demons left vacant thrones
waiting for redeemed human beings to claim them. See the perilous game the
devil plays?
He’ll never regain his former
throne. He also doesn’t want us to get them, either.
The catch is, no human being can claim one of
these thrones without being a real
Catholic Whole & Undefiled, or without persevering
and dying in the state of grace. Then, and only
then, may any human creature expect to occupy
one of those thrones, ruling with
Jesus & Mary over the New Heaven & New Earth, the New Creation.
This is the deal. This is what
we’re here for. This is what God commands us.
This is why it’s vital to profess
that there’s no
Salvation outside the Church.
Because ending your earthly life outside
this Church… either never Catholic or an iniquitous Catholic… makes
you no different from the rebellious angels, the demons, who fell from
Celestial Glory and will spend Eternity in the Pool of Fire. (Apocalypse 19:20,
20:9, 14-15 & 21:8) Don’t like that prospect? Then become or remain
Catholic. Part of doing so, imperatively, is believing in the infallible
teaching that humans bear God’s Image, that the Immaculate Mother of God
is Mary and His Tree of Life via Whom we may gain Her Son, Jesus, the Second
Person of God from All Eternity, including --- if called to the Sacrament of
Matrimony --- being obedient through willingness to procreate & raise as
truly Catholic any child He & She give you.
Because children
ARE
a blessing, gaining you a GREATER reward in Heaven.
This fact is now very unpopular, and
even forgotten & unknown, as human adults presume --- without knowing they
do so, oftentimes --- children are simply ‘choices’. Accordingly,
you simply ‘choose’ to have a child since you ‘want’
one at the moment. For more & more people lately, this is a
‘choice’ they increasingly answer with a “No way!” type
mentality, their ‘chosen’ lifestyle in no fashion willing to
‘accommodate’ the ‘inconvenience’ children would bring
into their lives. E.g., the prestigious BBC in
Think about it. No human being enters
this world full grown as a young adult. Every single one of us starts out as a
child. So, while in the short run such cities might make ‘more
money’ off of barren young adults… where will these free spending young adults come from in the not-too-distant
future? If too many people are refusing the ‘choice’ to
have children, then where in the world are these spendthrift young adults going
to ‘magically’ arise in
this world? As the saying goes: penny wise, pound
foolish.
Again, for all the pain & struggle,
children are a blessing, both
here and hereafter.
And thus why, until the end of this
world as we know it arrives, there CANNOT
ever possibly be ‘too many’ children in this life below, NOR ‘too many’ humans on
earth. To believe to the contrary is not only non-Catholic but anti-Catholic
as well. It is the wicked ‘spirit’ of Antichrist and the animating
‘soul’ of an apocalyptic and Oceanic Beast. It is irrational and defies the Law of Natural Reason
written by God upon our human
hearts. Popular to
think? Or ‘easy’
to admit & acknowledge during the Great Apostasy?
Not a chance. It flies in the face of
the zeitgeist of our demented, demonic era.
Yet true? And
infallibly so? Necessary to save an immortal human
soul?
Absolutely. It’s part & parcel of God’s Singular Faith
of Catholicism.
Queen Mary, like any good mother, wants
all the babies given Her.
We as real Catholics cooperate, in
wedlock, seeking to procreate.
And no good mother ever willingly allows
her children to starve. In abandoning the mythology of a ‘population
explosion’ and consequent ‘destruction of earth’, striving to
be truly Roman Catholic, such bogies are the least of our worries. A far better
thing to worry about --- if we must worry over anything --- is the population
implosion of all humanity. The implosion is real and it is transpiring right
now. It is a fallen angel’s desperate gambit to stave off his final
defeat, whilst inflicting maximum evil upon humanity’s temporary home,
the earth. Feel like letting him win in
the meantime?
Then either you are ignorant, or else
you are one of his many zombie children.
The
“…children of wrath…” as
The very children who are making the earth
barren, inheriting the same.
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