When I was a little kid doing one of those subjects whose name 8-4-4 changed to Social Studies, one particular topic stuck in my head; maybe that was because this topic made me see a bundle of human beings tied around an explosive and blown up - except instead of exploding into pieces, they became thousands of little beinglets.
Since we were children and thus credulous to a degree, we believed what the teacher told us; that somehow there were too many people on earth and that was due to, among other reasons, failure to go to school.
Among its effects, they said, was increased poverty and joblessness which are very bad things that nobody wants.
For many years, I somehow believed this bunch of bullshit coming from people's mouths and did not think properly about it. Maybe this was one intended effect of 8-4-4 - to make us doers and not thinkers, and only doers of the will of others.
I can say that intended outcome was successful in my case but that is not the point of this thing I am writing.
Some of the factors leading to population explosion, they said, were improved health outcomes through methods such as vaccinations, administration of antibiotics, piped water and improved sanitation. Obviously, the government has an interest in protecting and maintaining the welfare of the people whose money helps it exist. Or does it?
To reduce the amount of population growth, then, the government has to find ways to encourage people to have sex and pour inside less, including but not limited to introducing contraception programmes, making people go to school more and programmimg female people to pursue careers over family.
These programmes have been very successful, and adding the feminist idea that somehow younger women (obviously 18 and over) should not be having children, we have a society where the people who can give birth are not giving birth and the people who should have started giving birth to babies a long time ago are begetting fibroids instead.
You can see where I am heading with this and because I am the pilot here, I have decided I am not going to park by the side of the road to accommodate your brains.
Anyway, the first problem I noticed with the 'population explosion' and 'overpopulation' hypothesis was in China; somehow, the worst mathematician in the world became president (whatever) and decided that those people were giving birth to too much baby and decided to limit birth to one child per couple. The immediate impact of this move was less children born and therefore population growth which was easily controlled but, over the long run, the men in China who can make women pregnant outnumber them by a significant fraction.
This means there are fewer women to go around, and those are probably full of books and contraceptives or probably too busy working to even notice they are growing little fibroids in their wombs that will prevent them from giving birth to actual live human beings.
The same thing has happened in white people countries, most notably European countries like Italy and Spain, but with much less coercion by their respective governments.
The effect of all these population control measures is only now being seen but I will highlight it for you so you don't have to think about it too much.
First, because children are not being born, everybody is growing old and:
As a result, there is a significant gap between generations in terms of population parity, which means there are fewer younger people than older people, which leads to a spiralling effect where people give birth less and less and the population in question dies off or is conquered by their enemies.
Second, because there are fewer younger people to work, there are fewer people to pay taxes, which means there is less money for the government to do its job, leading to less investment in things like healthcare, security, education amd infrastructure with the attendant consequences.
Furthermore, there will be fewer workers across the economy, leading to less activity, less income, less investment and ultimately economic shrinkage.
Ultimately, however, when people are fewer, they are easier to conquer. When the white people of yurop were scrambling for our resources like high schoolers scrambling for food, our fathers were fewer, ignorant in the ways of the white man and weaker. They were sat upon for a century; more in some cases.
Now we are more, and knowledge has also increased which means everybody seems to know what we have and its value except us.
Now, instead of killing us outright like the Belgians and Germans did in Congo and Angola, they are paying "terrorists" and criminal elements in our societies to cause chaos in front while they take resources through the back door.
They are not alone in this: everyone across the world seems to be benefitting from our resources except us. Without our numbers, therefore, we would be in a substantially worse position.
Our people and leaders need to be alive to our situation and encourage us to give more birth. A properly working economy will always have room for more people.