The debate about over-population has made its rounds in the media several times over, but how factually based is the debate that there is too many people in the world? The arguments for heads of corporations, like Bill Gates, is that the “carbon footprint” of populations will negatively affect the enviroment through climate change and that larger populations consume too many resources. Self-proclaimed philanthropists, like Bill Gates, claim that population growth in continents like Africa is a problem that has to be dealt with, but how big of a problem is it really? Some important people say the contrary, that actually, population collapse is a bigger problem than population explosion. What would happen if large populations in the world are actually rapidly declining, which makes the over-population argument insignificant, as well as, false. Well as it turns out, populations are declining.
New undeniable research has shown that the world is actually heading towards a population collapse. The United States has seen one of the biggest population declines in a century, and France and China has seen simular results according to hard data. Countries like these are projecting that their populations will half by the mid 21st century. This could be a huge problem that would hinder innovation and create a stagnation in the developmental growth of all societies on Earth. But why is this new emerging problem happening? The answer is, there could be a multitude of reasons compounding in every direction.
Some potential answers are that infertilitiy is on the rise as well as the promotion and distribution of birth control in third world and first world nations. This means that the era of baby boom is over and the age of baby bust has begun. This does not mean that birth control is bad, but this does show that society must stop propagating the view that the world is over-populated. In fact the opposite might be true, and we might have to deal with the problem of under-population by the promotion of multi-cultarism and having more children in the world. Population collapse might become a real problem. But why is this myth of over-population still being propagated by the corporate state media and billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates?
One answer could be that population collapse may be due to an over-reaction and alarmism of the need for population control from birthrates rising in the past. Many alarmists have been parroting the need for solutions to “too many people,”since the mid-20th century. This era was known as the “baby boom,” but like all things this era has died and come to an end. New data has revealed in modern times that this alarmism was just plain wrong, and the world never needed to worry about over-population because, plain and simple, times change. The fact of the matter is that the argument of over-population never held water to begin with; it was all mis-information.
In actuality the entire population of Earth would fit easily within US borders, or even the Mexican or Canadian borders for that matter. And this has always been the case, in actuality, the Earth could hold a substancially larger amount of people and still sustain itself. The Earth will always be here; it is the population of humanity on the planet that probably won’t be. The arrogance of self-proclaimed elite philanthropists like Bill Gates is really to blame for the propagation of the myth of over-population, and in reality the threat is non existent. But thankfully, there are truthful elites in the world that do not think the earth is over-populated; they actually think the inverse.
Elon Musk said in a recent Wall Street Journal summit that declining populations could threaten civilization if the trend continues. Musk claims it is one of biggest emerging problems that we face as a somewhat free society, and it could be catastrophic for the future. In the summit he exclaimed, and I quote, "So many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and the population is growing out of control. If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words.” Musk reveals the problem that “smart people” and their perception of over-population is what is creating declining populations because they are promoting the idea that there are too many people in the world. This perception lead to an elitist mentality that over-population is a genuine concern that must be dealt with. This is the absolute problem with elitism: It is the fact that the aristocracy thinks it knows better than the experts.
Elitism actually stifles innovation and real solutions from coming to the forefront of society. It actually creates more problems than it solves. Elitism discounts the useful solutions from useful people instead of the civilization critics that an aristocracy creates in an unhealthy society. This can even be seen in the communist and fascist societies of the past where simple aspects of society like agriculture were severely hindered due to the demonisation of “wealthy farmers.” The elite party, the Soviets, in Communist Russia slandered a group called the “kulaks,” because of a process Joseph Stalin called the collectivisation of farms. This group of “kulaks” were expert farmers and it lead to a huge loss in food production where people starved to death. When an elite authoritarian class, like the Stalinist Soviets, think they know better than the “average joes,” society as a whole suffers and people starve to death. Or in the case of the fabricated “over-population” myth, there is the threat that there is not enough people to propell society into the future.
Overall it is way more than an educated guess, that the true problem with the population is not birthrates, but the problem is elitism. Elites in the world that want to tell you what the problem is with “you” the “little people” is the true problem, and blaming the world’s problems on the falsehood that there is “too many people in the world” is just an excuse for the true causation of conflict, which is elitism. Some extremely rich people in the world should stick to business and leave the philanthropy to the experts who really care. Leave the worry of over and under population to the experts, please, elites of the world; go back to your ivory tower and take a seat.