Capitalism, Population Control and the Culture of Death

Brian Clowe, advancing the argument further on the insidious motivation for population control quotes further from R.T. Ravenholt, Director of the United States Government’s Office of Population, who said at a 1977 meeting of the Population Association of America that “Population control is needed to maintain the normal operation of U.S. commercial interests around the world. … Without our trying to help these countries with their economic and social development, the world would rebel against the strong U.S. commercial presence. The self-interest thing is a compelling element.” Hear Brian again “Since 1991, the “developed” nations of the world have spent $4.91 billion in Nigeria trying to keep down the population of the people. In 1991, the population controllers spent about $31 million in Nigeria, but this has increased by a factor of more than 30 to more than half a billion dollars a year. This is because Nigeria is becoming too strong and must be kept weak by suppressing its population.”

Population density is usually the basis for determining if a population is overpopulated. Inspite of their claims about Africa, a comparative analysis of African and European populations clearly exposes the fallacy and hollowness of their claims. The European claim of 39 people per Sq Km in Sub Saharan Africa as being terribly overpopulated is exposed by the fact that the European population density per Sq Km is 174, about five times more populated. The same is true about individual countries. Nigeria`s population density is 197 per Sq Km and is of course considered scandalously overpopulated while England with 400 people per Sq Km is not considered overpopulated. Of course racism is playing a role in all of these contradictions. In Brian Clowe`s words, “The greatest fear of the racist population controllers had finally become a reality.Currently, Europe’s population is actually declining by two and a half million people a year, while Africa’s is increasing by 17 million per year. By the middle of this century, the continents will have completed the process of switching places. Africa will have 21 percent of the world’s population, while Europe possesses only eight percent. Even more interestingly, the average European will be 58 years old in the year 2050, and the average African will be only 29.”

With a final coup de grace, Brian Clowes asks the inevitable question “So who does the future belong to a continent with an old, small population with few natural resources, or a continent with a large, young population with vast natural resources? If Africa can overcome its corruption and civil wars, it will lead the world in just a couple of decades?”