This is my first attempt to reach out in this format, so be kind…
I’ve been wondering for a long time why over-population of our world isn’t often referred to as a priority problem:
1. We live on a planet that can comfortably sustain about two billion people. We’re pushing eight.
2. Many religious leaders speak against family planning in all it’s forms except abstinence.
3. Many politicians want to force women to give birth, even if the child’s life would be a horror.
4. There are already way too many children at adoption agencies or in foster care.
5. Almost half of the pregnancies in the world are unintended.
6. The majority of the women in the developing world want to avoid pregnancy.
7. At the rate we’re going now, the populations of the least developed countries will double at about the same time as science tells us that the earth will become unsustainable for human beings.
Not exactly the lucky seven we would like to see, but we have to take off the blinders and listen to 97% of scientists who say that humans are a cause of climate change and can be the solution if we stop being so greedy and start protecting our home, Mother Earth. Even if we aren’t a cause and this is just a natural cycle, maybe we should fight for her anyway and live to say so!
According to Population Connection, this global population growth pollutes our air, water, destroys forests and wildlife habitats, and drives climate change:
“Global population soars by 82 million people a year — yet Donald Trump and our opponents in Congress are determined to slash international family planning funding!”
Trump has already imposed a Global Gag Rule to cut off foreign aid to any abortion provider or even any who speak of it to their patients. He has revoked funding for the UN Population Fund which helps to control the population in 150 countries. He’s gutted the Affordable Care Act by allowing bosses to refuse the birth control benefit for “moral reasons”. He’s taken out women’s rights and reproductive rights from the State Department’s Human Rights Report. He’s even proposed a domestic gag rule on Title X so that they can’t offer a full range of contraception.
One would think any decent president wouldn’t agree with the Catholics or the Baptists who are accused of assault. He certainly doesn’t go to their churches. Oh wait, this is the guy who assaults women and kidnaps children, so he would fit right in.
We need to stop Trump and start talking about over-population before Mama Nature gets even more angry!