{"id":3492,"date":"2011-07-11T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2011-07-11T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:02:28","slug":"overpopulation-and-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/11\/overpopulation-and-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Overpopulation and Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div id=\"attachment_3493\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/map_of_malawi1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"map_of_malawi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3493\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Good Map of Malawi<\/p><\/div>By Clive Wakely. The greatest threat to our natural environment is that posed through overpopulation; yet despite Britain\u2019s population being propelled relentlessly through colonization towards 70 million, mainstream environmentalists say nothing!<br \/>\nIt is entirely probable that had Britain not experienced wave upon wave of post war immigration, a phenomenon that now manifests itself as colonisation, that Britain would have a stable population of less than 50 million.<br \/>\nIncredibly, whilst mainstream environmentalists busy themselves campaigning against the effects of overpopulation, such as urban creep, increased pollution and road building for instance, they never address the underlying cause.<br \/>\nIndeed, in what any rational person would regard as hypocrisy of the highest order, such people find no contradiction in, on the one hand, complaining about environmental degradation whilst, on the other hand, opposing limits on immigration!<br \/>\nThe Green \u201cMelon\u201d Party (a red seedy mass concealed in a green skin) for instance, claims to be opposed to environmental degradation whilst promoting a virtual open door immigration\/asylum policy.<br \/>\nOn the international scene few people know that the globalist \u201cone world\u201d United Nations (UN) has declared today, July 11th, as \u201cWorld Population Day\u201d; just three months before global population is expected to crash through the seven billion mark.<br \/>\nIn actual fact the UN first declared July 11th to be \u201cWorld Population Day\u201d in 1987 as that was the day global population was estimated to have reached five billion.<br \/>\nIn the 24 years that has elapsed since then the tally has increased by a further two billion.<br \/>\nTragically, at global level, there is a direct correlation between poverty and population increase.<br \/>\nAccording to the experts some of the world\u2019s poorest nations will double their populations within the next ten years.<br \/>\nPerhaps more disturbing still is the extrapolation that global population will pass the eight billion mark as soon as 2025 \u2013 far earlier than the experts were predicting towards the end of the last century.<br \/>\nStatistics show that the world\u2019s five most populous countries are China (1.3 billion), India (1.2 billion), the United States (310 million), Indonesia (243 million) and Brazil (201 million).<br \/>\nThe statistics also reveal that Africa\u2019s population between 1950 and 2000 has more than trebled, expanding from 230 million to 811 million; consequently Africa is now more populous than Europe.<br \/>\nNigeria, currently Africa\u2019s most populous country (158 million), is expected to grow to an incredible 730 million by the end of this century, making it larger than Europe\u2019s projected population of 675 million (a substantial proportion of whom will not be ethnically European).<br \/>\nMore disturbing still, by the end of the present century Nigeria will not be the only African country having a population in excess of 100 million. Ten other African countries are expected to exceed that number: namely, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.<br \/>\nAs we all know from the numerous aid appeals seen on our television screens Africa, even today, is struggling to feed itself \u2013 what hope then is there when its population is many times what it is today?<br \/>\nIt follows that the most effective form of aid the West can provide to Africa is education relating to birth control and contraception, particularly that having the aim of instilling in young minds the singular truth that increased population results in increased poverty and starvation.<br \/>\nYet massive population growth is not unique to Africa \u2013 the projections for South and Central America and Asian are equally terrifying.<br \/>\nGlobal population growth is fast outstripping advances in agricultural production; the trend in some countries, such as Brazil, to switch from growing food crops to more profitable fuel crops, compounding an already worsening situation.<br \/>\nGlobal demand exceeding global supply is partly why global commodity prices for food staples, on the world\u2019s stock markets, are trending ever upwards.<br \/>\nWhereas population growth is theoretically virtually unlimited, the global acreage of agricultural land is not.<br \/>\nFood security for Britain, indeed the whole planet, is deteriorating by the day.<br \/>\nThat threat, together with the detrimental impact upon our environment arising from overpopulation, is why this grossly overpopulated country of ours must slam the door firmly shut on immigration and increase agricultural production capacity as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clive Wakely. 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