For over half a century, policymakers committed to population
control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud
upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing
countries of their progeny and the people of the developed world of
their pocketbooks. Determined to stop population growth at all
costs, those Mosher calls "population controllers" have abused
women, targeted racial and religious minorities, undermined primary
health care programs, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not
dictatorship. They have skewed the foreign aid programs of the
United States and other developed countries in an anti-natal
direction, corrupted dozens of well-intentioned nongovernmental
organizations, and impoverished authentic development programs.
Blinded by zealotry, they have even embraced the most brutal birth
control campaign in history: China's infamous one-child policy,
with all its attendant horrors.
There is no workable demographic definition of "overpopulation."
Those who argue for its premises conjure up images of poverty--low
incomes, poor health, unemployment, malnutrition, overcrowded
housing to justify anti-natal programs. The irony is that such
policies have in many ways caused what they predicted--a world
which is poorer materially, less diverse culturally, less advanced
economically, and plagued by disease. The population controllers
have not only studiously ignored mounting evidence of their
multiple failures; they have avoided the biggest story of them all.
Fertility rates are in free fall around the globe.
Movements with billions of dollars at their disposal, not to
mention thousands of paid advocates, do not go quietly to their
graves. Moreover, many in the movement are not content to merely
achieve zero population growth, they want to see negative
population numbers. In their view, our current population should be
reduced to one or two billion or so. Such a goal would keep these
interest groups fully employed. It would also have dangerous
consequences for a global environment.
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