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Subject: The Population Control Bomb
Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:14 AM
The Population Control Bomb
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By Khalid Baig
http://www.albalagh.net/population/Malthus.shtml
When a hippopotamus gave birth recently, the "world famous" San Diego Zoo
in California celebrated the arrival for weeks. At the zoo, it is always a
joyous occasion at the birth of a panda, a kangaroo, an elephant, or what
have you. You are assured that each arrival has enriched the world!
Now contrast this with the birth of a child in any LDC (Less Deserving
Country?). An unbelievable assortment of "experts" would immediately tell
you that it is a moment of great sorrow. That the world is somehow
impoverished by the birth of each child.
It is a strange world in which the arrival of a hippo is a blessing but
that of a human child is a burden. But it is even stranger that the
argument given is economic. A hippo needs 100 pounds of food everyday,
compared with a few pounds for human beings. Further it does not produce
any of the food it consumes. No animal ever does. Only human beings
produce their own food. Lions eat goats and so do human beings. But lions
do not breed goats; human beings do. Jay-hawks eat chickens as do human
beings. But jay-hawks do not breed chickens, human beings do. If there
were an economic argument against overpopulation, you would think that it
would apply to all animals except human beings.
Yet an extremely powerful propaganda machinery has been busy for more than
a century in spreading the nonsense that the world faces a human
"overpopulation problem." While at the micro-level, the idea had been
there in many ancient jahiliyyah societies, where people even killed their
children so they won't have to feed them, its introduction at the
macro-level is recent. It was Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
who forcefully presented the idea that the human population would always
exceed our ability to produce food by some natural law. He opined that
population grows in a geometric progression (2, 4, 6, ) while production
of food grows in arithmetic progression (2, 3, 4, ). Even if there is
plenty of food for everyone at the beginning, in two generations there
will be more people than the means to feed them. Hence the "population
problem."
Malthus based his theory on very limited observations in American colonies
and even more limiting assumptions about the progress of agriculture
technology. The result is a theory that is totally contradicted by facts.
World population has not been growing as fast as his theory suggests;
African population is smaller today than it was before the European-led
slave trade played havoc with it. The increase in food production, on the
other hand, has been much greater than Malthus allowed. World population
has more than doubled since 1950, but food supplies have more than
tripled. Further, experts believe that if technology continues to improve
at today's rate, it will be possible to feed ten billion people on roughly
the same amount of land currently devoted to agriculture. As a result of
improving crop yields, the area that is used to grow crops---about three
billion acres globally---has increased little in the last two decades.
Other estimates suggest that the world can support 33 billion people.
While as a work of science Malthus's theory was worthless, it was received
enthusiastically for political reasons. The industrial revolution and
capitalism that accompanied it, did not deliver what they had promised. It
was expected that as it became easier and cheaper to produce goods,
everyone would share in the resulting prosperity; the rising tide would
lift all boats. It did not. Capitalism produced a small class of very rich
people and a large mass at barely subsisting levels. This made many people
to start questioning the system. Karl Marx's was one extreme and misguided
reaction to the very real injustices. Other critics differed in their
prescriptions but agreed that the issue was political and social justice.
Malthus's The Essay on Population was avowedly a reply to William Godwin's
Inquiry concerning Political Justice, a work asserting the principle of
human equality. And its purpose was to justify existing inequality by
shifting the responsibility for it from human institutions to the laws of
the Creator. As Galbraith would say, his work provided a satisfactory
formula for the rich to suffer the misfortunes of the poor. Malthus was a
priest in the service of the East India Company and taught generations of
its staffers who would then go out and plunder the colonies with the
satisfaction that the plight of their victims was the result of "natural
laws."
After World War II, when European powers found it difficult to maintain
direct control of their colonies, they were concerned that the newly
liberated colonies would develop and become economically independent and
politically powerful if left to grow on their own. The current population
control mafia is born of these concerns. While Malthus's original theory
remains discredited, the neo-Malthusians have tried to resuscitate it with
"concerns for the environment." Add to it the U.N. charlatans who are
never short of fancy phrases like "reproductive rights." And you get the
Population Control Bomb that has been devastating the world.
It did not have to be like this. The clear Qur'anic teachings destroy the
basic assumptions of Population Control campaign. "And the earth We have
spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and
produced therein all kinds of things in due balance. And We have provided
therein means of subsistence, for you and for those for whose sustenance
you are not responsible." [Hijr 15:19-20] "And there is not a thing but
its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send
down thereof in due and ascertainable measures." [Hijr 15:21] "There is no
moving creature on earth but its sustenance depends on Allah: He knows the
time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit: all is in
a clear Record." [Hud 11:6]
These verses clearly demolish any basis for use of birth control as a tool
of economic policy. How can anyone who believes in the One Creator,
Master, and Nourisher of the universe, entertain the idea for a moment, of
limiting the number of children for fear of want? Our job is to use the
resources wisely and distribute them justly. And Allah will provide for
all human beings as He has promised and as only He can provide. Muslims
are bound by their faith to work to dismantle the obscene birth control
establishment in their lands and devote their energies to solving the
problems caused by capitalism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism.
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