The history and plans for a death culture.
Statistics, Malthusian theory, the demographic transition goal, and treating humans like bacteria.
He doesn't mention another method:
This video, also starring Hans Rosling, looks at the "progress" in developed countries in reducing infant mortality and reducing the average number of children per woman. You may finish watching it thinking: "This is great news! we are really saving babies lives, but what's wrong with Africa? Why couldn't they get with the program?" Well, I know of a lady who was brought to tears after trying to represent her African nation at a United Nations meeting in New York. The men around her bullied her "ignorance" for expressing that the people of her country do not want abortions.
The square on the top right represents developing nations and the bottom left represents developed... but even developing nations have moved into the developed square, except most of Africa. Could it be that only Africa lacks the healthcare to save babies lives, or that mothers with 8 children can't afford to feed their youngest? Well certainly there is an infrastructure problem and certainly people die of hunger and poverty, but there are two major problems with using these data for writing policies.
What is infant mortality?
Sure, it's defined as child deaths per 1000, but what is a child and what is death? If we could define a new life as beginning at conception as we do for every other animal, these data might be more useful.
Does killing a child through abortion or after a botched abortion factor into "infant mortality"?
I haven't looked it up, but I bet you it does not in "developed countries."
Do aborted children factor into "children per woman"?
Once again, I can bet you that they do not.
Whether Dr. Rosling means to or not, showing the correlation between a drop in infant mortality and a drop in children per woman makes it seem like fertility is the independent factor influencing mortality, and if we just drop that, we can lower infant mortality. As we scientists are always being reminded, being able to establish correlation is far from establishing causality.
You would expect that no reputable scientist would be so bold, but you would be mistaken...
When studying for the MCAT we learn the four stages of an ideal demographic transition into a developed, industrialized society:
Source: Population Reference Bureau, The World at 7 Billion (pdf) (2011)
Here is the Link to Culture of Life, Africa's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCowrg8Wn26Et1tKqq_afkdg
THE HISTORY
For Catholics, here is a concise, solid history including the UN, Malthusian theory, abortion, Rockefeller, etc. from a talk by Monsignor Reilly:THE PLANS
Hans Rosling's Gapminder Foundation has developed impressive visualizations and animations to make UN global statistics more comprehensible. I really recommend watching his videos if you are studying MCAT Sociology. His video DON'T PANIC is a documentary-style, run through of population statistics. It's meant to uplift the viewer with the ongoing efforts to control population through some family planning methods:- promote family planning (pass out more contraceptives, abortifacients).
- shame fathers who want more children.
- shame women for raising too many children.
- get women to study and work just as much as men
- so that they will wait longer to settle down.
- make children spend more years studying
- so parents will have fewer children in consideration of education time and costs.
He doesn't mention another method:
- The US and UN have refused to offer aid to African countries after disasters unless they succumb to birth control policies. (video)
This video, also starring Hans Rosling, looks at the "progress" in developed countries in reducing infant mortality and reducing the average number of children per woman. You may finish watching it thinking: "This is great news! we are really saving babies lives, but what's wrong with Africa? Why couldn't they get with the program?" Well, I know of a lady who was brought to tears after trying to represent her African nation at a United Nations meeting in New York. The men around her bullied her "ignorance" for expressing that the people of her country do not want abortions.
The square on the top right represents developing nations and the bottom left represents developed... but even developing nations have moved into the developed square, except most of Africa. Could it be that only Africa lacks the healthcare to save babies lives, or that mothers with 8 children can't afford to feed their youngest? Well certainly there is an infrastructure problem and certainly people die of hunger and poverty, but there are two major problems with using these data for writing policies.
- There is no international definition of life or death.
- He seems to imply causality.
DEFINITIONS
What is infant mortality?
Sure, it's defined as child deaths per 1000, but what is a child and what is death? If we could define a new life as beginning at conception as we do for every other animal, these data might be more useful.
Did you know that in Canada, Germany, and Austria, a premature baby less than 500g is considered to be "unsalvageable" never truly alive in their statistics? They certainly are salvagable, but perhaps their healthcare isn't good enough or they don't even try. By not including this category, which tends to have much higher mortality rates (about 86.9% in the first month), Canada seems like it has reduced infant mortality. Does that mean they have better medicine and America should get rid of private healthcare to improve? No! From 2000-2008 42 of the 52 babies who survived after being born weighing less than 400g were born in the United States! Norway boasts some of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world, but if they did not ignore low birth weights, they would be no better than the US. In Hong Kong and Japan, death within 24 hours after birth is considered a miscarriage and never factored into infant mortality rates.
Does killing a child through abortion or after a botched abortion factor into "infant mortality"?
I haven't looked it up, but I bet you it does not in "developed countries."
Do aborted children factor into "children per woman"?
Once again, I can bet you that they do not.
If this is true, the shift shown in these data could be completely explained away. Women aren't making fewer children, they're just aborting more of them. Children aren't dying less, we are just explaining away their lives. Think about a pregnant mother in America whose unborn child is diagnosed with something that may cause death after birth. The hospital will simply recommend that she "terminate her pregnancy" (notice that they don't call it terminating a life, though it's their goal). If she agrees, the child will be killed before he has a chance to die after birth and contribute to the infant mortality statistic. If she tries to give her child a chance, she will be shamed for causing the baby unneeded suffering for her own ideologies
CAUSALITY
Whether Dr. Rosling means to or not, showing the correlation between a drop in infant mortality and a drop in children per woman makes it seem like fertility is the independent factor influencing mortality, and if we just drop that, we can lower infant mortality. As we scientists are always being reminded, being able to establish correlation is far from establishing causality.
You would expect that no reputable scientist would be so bold, but you would be mistaken...
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION GOALS
When studying for the MCAT we learn the four stages of an ideal demographic transition into a developed, industrialized society:
The Classic Phases of the Demographic Transition
Source: Population Reference Bureau, The World at 7 Billion (pdf) (2011)
- preindustrial, high birth and mortality rates
- sanitation, wages, access to healthcare, and food cause mortality to drop. (population rises)
- "improvements" in contraception, abortion rights, and more years spent studying cause birth rates to drop. (population stops rising)
- industrialized society, goal reached
They leave out phase 5: birth rates keep dropping, population plummets,
The Georgia Guidestones also incorporate Malthusian ideology: they propose that we somehow kill off a large portion of the world population so that we can finally have "harmony" with nature.
This is where we begin to treat humans like bacteria. If you were to isolate one B. cereus bacterium and place it on a petri dish, it will grow exponentially until all resources are used up and they die off. It's similar in a cell culture lab, your cells will grow to 100% confluency. Then they stop growing, not because resources are used up, but because they're done doing their job, which is to fill their container, like your own cells filling in a healing wound. The Malthusian theory is that humans are just like bacteria--we will reach our carrying capacity, exhaust our planet, and LIFE ON EARTH WILL CEASE TO EXIST because there is no more agarose in the petri dish. Bacteria can't farm, though. They can't build towers. A rich bacterium can't bring food to poor colonies.
Maybe you have heard already that the world population could all fit into Texas with enough space for a house and a yard, or that in the United States, we have many more empty homes that homeless people. We are not too concerned about hunger here, or else we'd be taking the effort to plant fruit trees in our cities rather than ornamentals. It's seen as unviable because then we'd need to clean up both leaves AND fruit, and there would be more bees in the world (Oh no, more jobs and living things!).
In fact, our poor tend to be more obese because of what MCAT sociology calls "food deserts," where only fast food is available. It's not that our poor are starving, it's that they can't pull themselves out of poverty (no social mobility).
Here are Pro-Life videos concerning this topic
(and China has to try a too-little-too-late 2 child policy because it can't replace its population and girls are being selectively aborted over boys, and they won't have enough doctors to care for their elderly population so the next generation will have their vengeance by euthanizing the generation that aborted theirs.)A Malthusian catastrophe would occur in phase 2. The population would keep rising and cause mass starvation. To prevent it, family planning advocates push for phase 3 as the natural progression for an "enlightened" people.
The Georgia Guidestones also incorporate Malthusian ideology: they propose that we somehow kill off a large portion of the world population so that we can finally have "harmony" with nature.
This is where we begin to treat humans like bacteria. If you were to isolate one B. cereus bacterium and place it on a petri dish, it will grow exponentially until all resources are used up and they die off. It's similar in a cell culture lab, your cells will grow to 100% confluency. Then they stop growing, not because resources are used up, but because they're done doing their job, which is to fill their container, like your own cells filling in a healing wound. The Malthusian theory is that humans are just like bacteria--we will reach our carrying capacity, exhaust our planet, and LIFE ON EARTH WILL CEASE TO EXIST because there is no more agarose in the petri dish. Bacteria can't farm, though. They can't build towers. A rich bacterium can't bring food to poor colonies.
We are nowhere close to exhausting our resources!
Maybe you have heard already that the world population could all fit into Texas with enough space for a house and a yard, or that in the United States, we have many more empty homes that homeless people. We are not too concerned about hunger here, or else we'd be taking the effort to plant fruit trees in our cities rather than ornamentals. It's seen as unviable because then we'd need to clean up both leaves AND fruit, and there would be more bees in the world (Oh no, more jobs and living things!).
In fact, our poor tend to be more obese because of what MCAT sociology calls "food deserts," where only fast food is available. It's not that our poor are starving, it's that they can't pull themselves out of poverty (no social mobility).
IN SHORT
We shouldn't be trying to prevent a population crisis and "empower women" by killing their children and making motherhood shameful. It's not logical to prevent mass death with mass killings!
Here are Pro-Life videos concerning this topic
Here is the Link to Culture of Life, Africa's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCowrg8Wn26Et1tKqq_afkdg
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