Greetings in peace and wisdom, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to submit to your rational, critical and objective judgement the following assessment.
This is also a call, an appeal for impartial reflection, acknowledgement and action.
Looking forward to your contribution and feed-backs.
Now then.
A wise man once wrote, " Planet Earth and its inhabitants are suffering from diverse ills caused singularly and exclusively by man himself. These already existing ills, however, will continue to proliferate until finally everything completely deteriorates.
The Earth's population is plagued by famines, energy shortages, epidemics, environmental pollution, degeneration, terrorism, dictatorship, anarchism, slavery, excessive increase of waste materials, racial hatred, food shortages, destruction of rain forests, the "greenhouse effect", pollution of lakes, streams and oceans, hatred towards asylum-seekers; radioactive emissions, chemical pollution of water, air, plants, food, human beings and animals.
In spite of many efforts, mankind's problems are not decreasing but, instead, continue to rise steadily in direct proportion to population increases.
Mankind's horrendous ills originate from and exist through overpopulation with its unrelenting, irresponsibly continuing escalation.
The situation dictates that any ill can only be fought and remedied by grasping it by its roots, ripping it out and destroying it: The numbers of terrestrial humankind must be drastically reduced.
The only humane method by which this reduction goal can be achieved, is through stringent birth control regulations that permit married couples, of a predetermined age, to have only a strictly specified number of children."
Avalonians,
A close and objective look reveals indeed that everything is connected:
Shortage of almost all first resources (drinking water, food, oil… other vital items) and the therefrom resulting poverty, inequality, hunger, spiritual stagnation, despair... and subsequently crime, massive immigration, economic migration and ecological refugees, 'hatred towards foreigners', terrorism, wars... not to mention the destruction of the whole environment.
Earth needs to recover; natural resources need also time to renew themselves. We impede both. Alas.
Overpopulation is hence likely to become one of the most important and - perhaps - the most decisive questions and challenges in the coming times for the whole humanity.
We certainly need to break that taboo hanging above the topic of human reproduction, population, resp. overpopulation.
More emphasis must be put on the crucial rol played by overpopulation in the current, terrible state of our global affairs.
We indeed all know that everything needs management; ourselves and our number are not and can not be an exception.
Nothing is endless and all requires rational use, care and maintenance - including earth's resources.
The shortages of clean water, food, minerals and other basic life's items, pollution and the destruction of the environment are nowadays more obvious that never before.
We, Humans, and the ways we go about life, put too much stress on Earth.
We are doomed, unless we drastically change our ways of thinking and doing; our days are counted, unless we truly understand and accept our responsibility, as leading species.
We need a worldwide, democratic - valid for all individuals, social classes and nations - rational, responsible, scientific and rigorously monitored birth control.
Some may say, "multiply yourself" is written in The Book - Genesis 1:22:
God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.".
We shall argue, that also and together reason, common sense are given to us so that we can know, judge and decide when we 'have multiplied enough'.
And again, the Commandment could as well be: "multiply yourself in and with wisdom, reason, knowledge, humaneness..." - besides, if we keep procreating the way we now do, there wouldn't be much animals, fish, trees, "birds left on the earth"!
Interesting and highly encouraging publications and analyses on population are recently hitting the net:
- Baby decisions - adding to the world's woes?
"How responsible is it to have children in a world whose environmental health is already under stress? That's the question Joanna Benn poses this week in the Green Room. On the other hand, she wonders, will a couple more hungry mouths make much difference?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7759845.stm
- POPULATION: The elephant in the room
"Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet, warns John Feeney. In this week's Green Room, he calls on the environmental movement to stop running scared of this controversial topic."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7865332.stm
- One last chance to save mankind
"With his 90th birthday in July, a trip into space scheduled for later in the year and a new book out next month, 2009 promises to be an exciting time for James Lovelock. But the originator of the Gaia theory, which describes Earth as a self-regulating planet, has a stark view of the future of humanity. He tells Gaia Vince we have one last chance to save ourselves - and it has nothing to do with nuclear power."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...rue&print=true
New policy decisions have been taken on this sensitive matter:
- 'Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy'
By LIZ SIDOTI and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers – Fri Jan 23.
"WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama's executive order, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/...a_abortion_ban
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm
Friends, fellow Earthlings,
LET'S KEEP THE MOMENTUM!
Do please support our effort to put the important and so difficult issue of overpopulation and birth control on the national and international agendas.
Could you help us promote more awareness of overpopulation and of the threat of overpopulation to our well-being and to the capacity of self-sustainability of this planet - and ultimately to our survival as a species?
Could you also add your personal voice to our overpopulation awareness campaign and support our world wide birth control initiative?
The petition is at:
http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Bil...ecial:Petition
This petition will be sent to the UN, the World Population Awareness Organization, The Earth Charter Initiative, the Earth Policy Institute; to other major international organizations dealing with development and population; to mister Nelson Mandela and Father Desmond tutu, to all responsible citizens of our world and to all those who make decisions directly influencing our daily life.
Please, advocate and promote a worldwide rational birth control.
Help us shape a responsible future now.
We owe that to our children and to the children of our children.
We owe it to Mother-Earth.
Peace and Wisdom.
RaKaR
www.futureofmankind.co.uk