Even though there has been a gradual slowing of the overall rate, the world’s population is still increasing by about 78 million people each year. Whatever happened to zero population growth?

Amy Coen of Population Action International puts things in perspective: “It took all of human history for the world’s population to reach 1 billion in 1804 but little more than 150 years to reach 3 billion in 1960. Now, not quite 40 years later, we are twice that number. Every 20 minutes the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life, at least 27,000 species per year.” And the group’s latest projections say the population could double again by the year 2050.

The United States is the third most populous nation after China and India, even though 71-percent of its women use some form of family planning. And it still has the highest fertility rate among industrialized nations. The United States is expected to double its 270 million people in the next 60 years according to Peter Kostmayer of Zero Population Growth. The United States is also the “melting pot” for every other ethnic group on the face of the earth that supports huge families.

The biggest problems are in poor countries where it is expected that 95-percent of future population will occur. These are the same countries that already can’t provide proper housing, education, medical facilities, food and water sources. And about 1 billion teenagers are just now entering their reproductive years – considered a major reason for the continued population growth.

Other scary projections: by 2025, one billion people will be over age 60, although few efforts are being made to care for them medically or socially.

Some thoughts and questions: We don’t need anymore people on earth; there are way too many now. In fact, there were way too many back in 1960. Does the human animal have the right to obliterate every other species to make more room for his own? Should poor nations that have already proved incapable of supporting their massive populations continue to be subsidized by other nations so that the poor nations can continue their rampant procreation? Should nations whose religion or tradition calls for large families be tolerated by the rest of humanity? Should teenagers be allowed to procreate? How do you stop people who care nothing about the environment from procreating? Should we just procreate until every last resource on the face of the planet is used up and then worry about it later? That does seem to be the way things are going now.

When people get worried about the population, what do they do? Well, in Southern California they build more homes and mini-malls for the expected onslaught and wonder if the Colorado River’s water supply will be enough. I gather that’s how the rest of the planet’s authorities think too. In Southern California, it’s the Mexicans who supply the largest in population growth; in New York, it’s the Puerto Ricans. What’s in common? How about their Latin tradition and the stupid Catholic Church, an entity that thinks it’s better to bring hordes of babies into the world and then let them die in agony from starvation and disease rather than eliminate them through a more kindly birth control pill or even abortion.

Does that sound racist? It’s not. It’s common sense. But God forbid anyone should speak the truth! Mexico has exported all of its problems into the United States for many years now, including a non-stop population that the country itself cannot control. Other nations are just as guilty in their own environments.

In the animal kingdom, if the environment cannot support the population, it dies out. In the human kingdom, it’s medicated, educated and told to have a good life and make more children.

Human beings have no more rights than any other species. They only think they do and one day in the not too distant future, that fact will become abundantly clear … when there is no more space, when there is no more water, when our garbage is miles high, when our pollution is so thick no one can breathe, when our industrial waste has so poisoned the earth that nothing more can grow, when we have killed every last species of animal and plant. Of course by then, we will have figured a way to travel the universe and take our sick mentality elsewhere. (original post August, 1999)

The Border Patrol at points south, San Diego and beyond, spends millions figuring new ways to keep out the illegals at the same time that the government up north dangles gold-plated carrots in the form of free public benefits.

The Border Patrol builds high walls and fences, installs high tech surveillance, risks their lives trying to maintain some sense of control over our borders. And when the infiltrators do manage to breach the containment field, the Border Patrol shoots, arrests, runs them down in high speed/low speed chases and then gets blamed when the van carrying 20 illegals tumbles out of control and crashes in some bushes off a major freeway somewhere. What are they supposed to do to stop them? Use harsh words? On the other hand, maybe they ought to get gold stars for the hundreds they save who have been dumped in the desert by the coyotes (runners of illegals) trying to escape with their own derrieres intact. Recently, there was a massive invasion of over 600 illegal aliens in one night. And they’re not coming here for the fine climate.

In 1994 about 60% of the state’s population voted on an initiative (Proposition 187) to ban the misguided generosity of free benefits – no mean feat considering Latinos are pretty nearly the majority ethnic group now. Then last year, misguided soul, U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer ruled that the Proposition was unconstitutional and that it was a good idea to give illegal immigrants nonemergency health care, public schooling and numerous other social services. Her reasoning was that only the federal government had the right to make immigration law. Zounds! I thought there WAS a law that said illegal immigration WAS illegal … and if they have no right being here then they sure as hell have no right receiving benefits. California has never recouped from the federal government the money it spent trying to cope with illegal immigration. So where was the federal government whose job it is to make immigration law? Maybe the White House interns know.

Back when he was still governor, Pete Wilson appealed the ruling. Now that he’s out and Gray Davis is in (he opposed the measure when it was originated), that appeal may very well fall by the wayside and the decision of 60% of the state’s population may just as easily be dashed. A democracy? For the people, of the people, by the people? Not in California. Not in the state of the premier suckers of the sublime United Suckers of America. No wonder France gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty begging for all the world’s poor and downtrodden. No other country was stupid enough to take it.

Now, Davis, in order to play both sides of the fence, asked for a private mediation of Prop 187. Many say that’s illegal in itself as an abuse of the mediation process. I say it’s a huge cop-out. Illegal immigrants don’t belong in this country and they shouldn’t be rewarded for breaking the law. If the Federal government can’t or won’t handle the problem, then the state of California and other states in the line of fire, must stop the onslaught now. This Proposition is not unconstitutional. it is common sense. (original post 1999)