They want your money, not your babies. | Population growth and the black population.

The powers that be, they want your money, your resources, your land, everything, they sure as hell do not want your babies though.
What is urgently needed, according to a report in BBC Earth dated, 14 March 2016. 

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What is needed is ways to speed up the decline in fertility rates. Happen to find it yet, may I ask? and if and when you do, will you be waiting to get the consented permission from the population before applying it? just asking. One relatively easy way to do so, the report went on to say, might be to raise the status of women, especially in terms of their education and employment opportunities said one recent study. So, it wasn’t because it was the right thing to do? Wasn’t because women deserve to be treated as equals like you’ve been saying? Certainly not a question of rights and fair play. It’s because of some other things that are affecting you, or will be affecting you sometime in the near future? Something like population growth, for instance, and you’ve got to do your bit in order to fix it now, by whatever means necessary? I see.

Will Steffen, an emeritus professor with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University said. It is not the rise in population by itself that is the problem, but rather the even more rapid rise in global consumption.
Steffen suggests that “we,” (not you and me though, that’s for sure.) We should stabilize the global population, hopefully at around nine billion, and then begin a long, slow trend of decreasing population. From where you are sitting now black man, would you happen to see anything happening around those parts that could, in the vaguest of terms, anything that could be construed as a slow trend in decreasing the population of peoples, some people who may, or may not look like you? Let me put it another way. Is the black population in and around your neighborhood growing, or no-ing? Like, yes, or no?

That means, the report continued. That means reducing fertility rates. So, now one can begin to see and get a feel as to why the mad rush towards a one child per family, ratio. Hardly any effort on the other side of the issue -the: “rapid rise in global consumption” side though, nothing happening there in terms of trying to reduce that. I wonder why, why is that?
Creating a sustainable population is as much about boosting women's rights as it is about reducing consumption of resources
There are actually signs that this is already beginning to occur, even as population numbers continue to rise. The rate of population growth has been slowing since the 1960s and the UN Population Division's world fertility patterns show that, worldwide, fertility per woman has fallen from 4.7 babies in 1970-75 to 2.6 in 2005-10.
(Yeah! Very good, and young black men are dying in the streets like never before seen, I’m sure this too will be contributing quite handsomely to the set goals, your bottom line of reducing population to more sustainable levels, but one thing, in this regard, has nothing to do with the other, just mere coincidence. Yeah! I’m sure.)

Corey Bradshaw say what?

…However, it could still take centuries for any meaningful reductions to happen, says Corey Bradshaw…
Corey Bradshaw at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Said. The trends are so deeply set, that even a dramatic catastrophe might not change their course. In a 2014 study, Bradshaw concluded that if two billion people died tomorrow – or if every government adopted controversial fertility policies such as China's recently-ended one-child policy – there would still be as many if not more people on the planet by 2100 as there are today.

So, Corey, those thoughts are actually floating around somewhere there in your mind? Oh, no, I get it, it’s not you. You’re just articulating what others are thinking. Like, “a dramatic catastrophe might not change their course? yeah! that part. In a 2014 study, Bradshaw concluded that if two billion people died tomorrow...” It’s just a thought, Corey, and we are not able to go out and make it happen, even if we want to, and we are not trying to convince governments to adopt controversial fertility policy, which their peoples may or may not know about, or support, no? I see.

What is urgently needed, though, is ways to speed up the decline in fertility rates. One relatively easy way to do so might be to raise the status of women, especially in terms of their education and employment opportunities, says Steffen.
If some or all of us consume a lot of resources, the maximum sustainable population will be lower

Go read the report for yourself. I’ve had enough.

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