Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Generation that Aborted Will be Euthanized
Call it the new population control. Dr. Peter Saunders of Christian Medical Fellowship looks at the combination of demographic decline, financial crises and disrespect for life and comes to a sobering conclusion: The generation that killed its children will in turn be killed by its own children. In other words legalised abortion will lead to [...]
Every Dollar Spent on Condoms Means Less Dollars in Taxes
An article from Keith Riler at First Things fleshes out the long term effects of population control efforts among the poor in America. Riler suggests that the FED and States should gladly spend $11,000 worth of Medicare on births among poor Americans, rather then spend for family planning. Riler sees it as an investment. The argument is [...]
Eliminating People to Help People?
Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and [...]
Lancet’s Push for Contraception Falls Flat
The Lancet medical journal launched its series on contraception today with a rah-rah introduction at an event held in conjunction with the Summit on Family Planning in London. “The link between contraception and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] was missing,” announced the emcee. “Now we have the evidence needed in the Lancet papers. This will [...]
The UNFPA’s Miserable Failure to Control the World’s Population at Rio +20
The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were [...]
Melinda Gates and the New Population Control Movement
Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives. Colbert: “But now you’ve got [...]
Round-Up: Supreme Court Decides Affordable Care Act
Much ink will be spilled in the coming weeks and months over today’s Supreme Court ruling, which preserves the Affordable Care Act. Today, we link you to some of the best explanations and analysis that we’ve found (thus far): Best Place to Read the Opinion: Interactive: Inside the Health Care Ruling, by Erica Ryan and Matt [...]
Rio + 20 in Pics
You can check google for more pics of the conference. Here is a selection of pics to give a different perspective. The Earth is Sick and Humans are the Problem. A poster hangs in the main entrance of the Rio +20 pavillion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, showing that human beings are the disease that plagues the earth. Some [...]
Rio + 20: Green Economy Loses, Sovereign States Win, Civil Society Disappointed
Rio + 20 was touted as the most important United Nations Conference ever by the UN bureaucracy led by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. It was also touted to be a UN Conference where we would witness unprecedented collaboration between Governments and civil society. To that end, for the past two years civil society had [...]
Rio + 20: Holy See Shines Light in the Midst of Darkness
If you are reading this, you are probably afraid that what is going on in Rio de Janeiro right now during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development is nothing other than the proverbial “blind leading the blind”. As countries hurry to make politically expedient and alarmist statements about climate change, the green economy and reproductive [...]
Rio + 20: Brazil Takes Control of Document
It was almost expected, and everyone here in Rio is taking it on the chin. Late Friday night it became inevitable. The outcome document of the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development will not be the result of multilateral negotiations carried out under the rules of the United Nations, but will be controlled by Brazil, the host [...]
Rio + 20: No Guarantees of a Sustainable Future
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, is now in its third day. It has been touted as the most significant UN Conference ever. That’s what we’ve been hearing from the Secretary General and his UN political sales fleet made up of high and low ranking UN staff and delegations for [...]
Rio +20 Re-post: “Royal Society call for free access to reproductive health services despite protests from Vatican”
Full article here and here. The world’s 105 science academies, including the Royal Society, have warned international leaders that a failure to act now on population growth and over-consumption will have “potentially catastrophic implications for human wellbeing” The Royal Society also released a study in the months leading up to the conference calling for population [...]
Report Posits Population Control as Solution to Poverty in World’s Least Developed Countries
In the last months leading up to the Rio +20 summit, yet another report was released promoting population control as essential in the fight to eradicate world poverty. The report, published by the Royal Society of London, titled “People and the Planet” acknowledges that the world’s population has declined while pointing out that in the [...]
New Zealand introduces an intrusive birth control plan for women receiving welfare payments
The New Zealand government is planning to offer free long-term contraception such as implants and IUDs to women who receive welfare payments and their daughters, the BBC reported last week. The plans have aroused opposition from those who consider this to be an intrusive step into private family life; and some have accused the government [...]
G77 Pushes back at Rio +20: Negotiations Extended
Straight from the UN News Service last Friday, May 5th: Representatives from governments negotiating the outcome document for the United Nations Sustainable Development Conference (Rio+20) today agreed to add five more days of deliberations to bridge differences that have kept them from making further progress in negotiations. The extended negotiations will begin the 29th of [...]
Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual Youth Lobby Sent Home Empty-Handed from UN
By Timothy Herrmann NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Youth activists arrived at the UN in droves last week in an attempt to hijack the 45th session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) by promoting homosexual rights and abortion. However, countries rejected their demands and produced a fairly balanced outcome document that focuses on [...]
Family Breakdown at the Heart of Global Aging Crisis
By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Is family breakdown the cause or the cure for the global crisis of population decline? Two new articles in top foreign policy journals raise the question. “As the flight from marriage and the normalization of divorce has recast living arrangements in Japan, the cohort of married [...]
The Problem with Climate Scientists, Politicans and Car Salesmen…
… Is that none of them know what they are talking about most of the time, and when they do, they are usually lying. It’s a well documented fact. Politicians are among the least trusted professionals (if we can call them that) together with lobbyists and car sales people, according to the most recent Gallup [...]