In north India, where in rural areas and among the poor, female foetecide and infanticide is rampant, the ratio of man to woman is 9:3, they have to import girls from other states which leads to huge problems.

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There's small population somewhere in India, that litterly "steals" food from the rats in order to survive.
They have recently taken care of by a Western foundation, together with their Indian counterpart.

TPRF’s Food for People Brings Hope to Villagers in India

Just over a year ago, The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) inaugurated Food for People (FFP), an innovative food initiative, in a remote area of Jharkhand, in northeastern India, where tribal people have historically struggled just to survive from day to day. Situated on six acres of land, FFP is a newly constructed, impeccably clean 10,0000-square-foot facility, equipped with a large kitchen, separate storage and food preparation rooms, a spacious dining area, and modern sanitation facilities. During its first year of operation, FFP served over 150,000 hot, nutritious indigenous meals to children and adults. Before this facility was built, children scrounged for grub worms and sought out the nests where rats store food for their young, snatching what they could for themselves. Many adults suffered from general weakness or illness and were unable to earn enough money to take care of their families. Children dropped out of school at a very early age to begin working in exchange for food. The population as a whole, generally overlooked by the efforts of larger charities, has been caught in a devastating cycle of poverty and disease, causing a high rate of infant mortality and short life expectancy.

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This is really a compelling subject. I started reading this book "On Population", it's fascinating, but not easy to read. Those editions stem back to the late 1700's and early 1800's. Words used, grammar and punctuation are partially very different. Many sentences and paragraphes I have to read 2x, in order to comprehend the content.

It's worth it though .... funny thing is, we're "Utopians" ... huuh at least that's what they thought we would be, 200 some years ago....

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Beware the population alarmists
2007-06-30
Nicholas Eberstadt
This week's U.N. "State of World Population" report warns that by 2008, more than half the world's population will live in urban areas. Shock, horror! But there is a serious point to the U.N. report: it wants to slow down urbanization by reducing birth rates. The only problem is that it provides no compelling reason for so doing.
For years, the U.N. Population Fund has been seeking to justify its existence by issuing reports claiming that we must reduce birth rates in poor countries in order to achieve "sustainable development." While intuitively appealing, these ideas are not supported by evidence. In reality, global living standards improved dramatically over the past century, despite a near-quadrupling of human numbers -- and they can continue to improve at current and future population levels.

There is no need for governments to alter our patterns of reproduction. Moreover, apart from morally reprehensible coercive schemes such as China's one child policy, it is not clear that government population policies can do much to change human numbers anyway.

Let's start with the much discussed idea of "overcrowding." If population density is taken as the basic criterion for overcrowding, India and Rwanda (each with over six times the world's average population density) would surely qualify as "overcrowded." But Belgium is considerably more "overcrowded" than Rwanda, and oil rich-Bahrain is three times as "overcrowded" as India. Wealthy, urbanized Monaco, meanwhile, is the most "overcrowded" country in the world, at 700 times the world average.

In most minds, the notions of "overcrowded" and "overcrowding" conjure images of hungry children, unchecked disease, squalid living conditions and teeming slums. Those problems are all too real in today's world -- but the proper name for those conditions is "human poverty."

Even though the number of people on the planet has increased considerably over the last 200 years, we are not running out of resources and we are certainly not getting poorer. Consider the twentieth century's "population explosion": between 1900 and 2000, human numbers almost quadrupled, leaping from 1.6 billion to six billion. But global GDP per capita quintupled over this same period.

Over these same years, furthermore, food production has steadily outstripped population growth, while practically all natural resources -- ranging from copper to aluminum -- have become cheaper in real terms: which is to say less scarce.

These trends provide some clues as to why there was a "population explosion" in the first place. It was not due to people suddenly breeding like rabbits -- it was because they finally stopped dying like flies. Over the 20th Century, average life expectancy doubled from around thirty years to over sixty years and infant mortality rates have declined substantially all over the world. With fewer people dying, populations increased, even though global fertility levels have been in decline since the 1960s.

This "health explosion" caused the "population explosion" -- and this dramatic, ongoing health surge is in large part due to unprecedented and extraordinary improvements in material living standards, particularly over the past few decades. Food continues to become cheaper and medical technology continues to improve.

Nevertheless, proponents of population stabilization worry that human numbers will more than double over the coming century unless governments take action. But their plans to control population by imposing State-mandated family planning have no scientific basis.

Globally, there is no causative link between the availability of contraception and fertility levels -- the rate of contraception use is virtually identical in Jordan and Japan, for instance, but Jordan's fertility rate is more than three times higher. In 1974 Mexico brought in, a national family-planning program. Brazil has never implemented such a program but, during the following 25 years, Mexican and Brazilian fertility levels fell at nearly identical rates.

The truth is that parental preference is the key determinant of family size amongst illiterate people in poor countries, just as it is among educated people in rich countries. Anti-natal population plans are therefore futile -- unless they follow China's lead and impose coercion with its terrible consequences.

At any given income level -- including even very low income levels -- parents around the world have been opting for fewer children since the 1960s. As a result, future world population may be far lower than the population alarmists have imagined, and "world population stabilization" will be achieved without the emergency government interventions they advocate.

Fortunately for our troubled planet, "overpopulation" is not a problem. With sensible policies, health and prosperity will continue to spread around the world, as will continuing improvements in nutrition and medicine.

Human ingenuity has historically found the answers to the problems of scarce resources, and it is humans who create the technologies that allow us to accommodate larger numbers of people on the planet, in increasing comfort.

By ignoring the potential of human beings, anti-natalists blame the poor for their poverty and propagate false solutions. The poor need economic freedom so they can raise themselves up, not sterile U.N. schemes.

Professor Nicholas Eberstadt is Wendt Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Adviser at the National Bureau of Asian Research.


Article Source: The China Post (Taiwan)

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Remember that Malthus was a pre-darwinian and a cleric of some sort. So he is not really a scientist and is more closely allied with scholasticism. You'll see that begin to come out as he describes human morality in relation to his population studies. In some aspects it is a small step from Malthus to Himmler.

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They are tribes, they chose their independence and way of life like the native American Indians did, the government generally keeps out of their way but yes, they are in a bad shape, not due to the fault of the administration but due to their own leasers who are quite corrupt and embezzle funds given to them for their tribe's upkeep.

Western foundations, most of them are various Christian religious organizations in guise of aid, they do a good deed but at a high cost of coercion to convert them, I don't mind them changing their faith, but then these neo converts become vehemently opposed to the establishment and the majority faith and huge friction is created, not all of us want to be saved.

This kind of situation also exists in worse numbers in Eastern Europe as well, I have seen that first hand during my visit there, also child prostitution is rampant there.

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If you take outwardly as the key point in this statement it probably gives a clear picture of this idea.

Societies don't express, people express, exactly who are we talking about here?

Slavery, on a worldwide basis, has been on the rise in recent years. I think that says more about moral status attached to human life than almost anything else. Providing food and health care for people so that there is larger pool of slaves is not a humanitarian effort.

“Why call the whole world’s attention to the fact that we have no past? Himmler is digging up these mud huts and enthusing over stone axes. All we prove is that when the Romans were erecting great buildings our ancestors were living in mud huts.” Hitler’s Machiavellian point was that “we really should keep quiet about this [primitive German] past” (Rudolph Hess).

full essay:
http://israelendtimes.com/blog/2007/06/30/gothic-grotesque-precursor-of-modern-horrors.htm

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