... Today I watched the Census Bureau's world population clock. It brought home graphically what the human population explosion means. During the minute while I read the page 149 babies were born. I could visualize these little bundles arriving all over the planet!
... According to a Harris Poll:
... Birth control/contraception is supported by 93 percent of all [US] adults, including 90 percent of Catholics and 88 percent of born-again Christians, the "very religious" and Evangelicals
....Funding of international birth control programs is supported by 70 percent of the public, including 66 percent of Catholics, but only 53 percent of born-again Christians and 48 percent of Evangelicals.
....Funding of international birth control programs is supported by 70 percent of the public, including 66 percent of Catholics, but only 53 percent of born-again Christians and 48 percent of Evangelicals.
... Now of course I understand that as humans we are creatures of contradiction. But we do make sense at least some of the time. So I am trying to see where anti-population control policies would lead us, as in this statement attributed to Pope John Paul II "I resist the argument that we are poor because we are too many."
...I also remember a pronouncement from an Evangelical that went approximately as follows. "Population control is nonsense. The Earth could support five times as many people. Look at the Netherlands. They have over five times the density of the US. I don't see them starving or feeling crowded."
...Hmm. The current world density is 125 people per square mile, with the US not far behind at 85.6. Going to the logical extreme, that man would be OK with a US populace of 2.2 billion within a world that had burgeoned to 32 billion people. Does he realize this, or care to?
...Given the support for birth control why is this topic completely off the radar screen in our politics?
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