How rational are leftist fears of overpopulation and food shortages?

Three nice short videos introduce the issues of overpopulation and the demographic crisis.

Overpopulation:

Demographics:

Food Production:

I actually have talked to some people who believe these myths, and I have developed a theory about what sorts of childhood experiences cause them to form these beliefs.

More importantly, I’ve also noticed that anxiety over these myths can manifest itself publicly in support for policies like taxpayer-funded abortion and global warming. The people who worry most about counter-factual doomsday predictions are Democrats.

Consider the connections between abortion, global warming, mass sterilizations, and overpopulation fears in the thinking of Barack Obama’s science czar John Holdren in the links below. His belief in these myths will be affecting public policy.

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6 thoughts on “How rational are leftist fears of overpopulation and food shortages?”

I love these videos!

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I regularly encounter these arguments from environmentalist friends. Now there’s nothing wrong with looking after the environment. Don’t litter, try to cut down on pollution, don’t go destroying important ecosystems, etc. As a Christian I believe that God gave us the task of stewarding the world in a way that glorifies Him. But when they start looking at human beings as a biohazard and telling us that human life is just as valuable as that of a cockroach they’ve completely lost the plot. Probably one of the scariest people on this is Peter Singer.

If they think that supposed overpopulation is what causes poverty, then why has there always been poverty in the world, even when the population has been much smaller? And what do they make of problems experienced by countries like Japan with aging populations with insufficient young working people to support them?

WK, tell us your theory about their childhood experiences. I’m curious.

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I run into this one a lot (the canard about overpopulation and “family planning”), but good luck trying to disabuse people of this notion that actually need to hear it.

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I just read on LifeSite News that most of the Buffet foundation’s millions goes to abortion and contraception advocacy and research groups, including tens of millions to Planned Parenthood and a whole lot to the Gates foundation, which is infamous for it’s population control advocacy. Buffet is the secret sole sponsor behind a big drive to make abortion mainstream and train doctors to do abortion because there is (understandably!) a shortage of doctors who want to do it. Ugh! This is why it’s helpful if there are financially successful Christians who want to put their money into good causes. Because there are plenty of very wealthy people ploughing money into evil causes.

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