What is depopulation expected to do?

The thought that there are besides many people and that we request to solve this problem for the sake of humanity necessarily has their theoretical supporters but besides practicing believers putting these ideas into practice.

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was the first promoter of the request to carry out measures to reduce the number of Earth's inhabitants, who proclaimed that the rate of growth of the world's inhabitants was faster than the anticipation of expanding food production, which must lead to the crisis moments that Malthus theoretically calculated on the basis, as we now see, of erroneous assumptions. Malthus pointed out that it was the work of social engineers acting on behalf of governments to manage specified a "human flock" to avoid overcrowding crises.

The tools for carrying out anti-crisis tasks, according to Malthus, are: war, hunger and disease. Malthusian ideas were eagerly undertaken by the Roman Club established in 1968, which as the best method of governing promotes technological dictatorship. How to be scientifically active were scientists from MIT. Jay Forrester and Denis Meadows continuing Malthus's thought on the basis of computer simulation forecasts stated that improvement would be possible subject to balanced growth: economical and population growth. Sustainable improvement became a hero of the book The Limits to Growth published by the CoR in 1972.

The author of the "Granic of Growth" Denis Meadows in the 2017 movie justifies the depopular aspirations: "We could have 8 or 9 billion, most likely if we had a very strong dictatorship that is intelligent... but with a low standard of surviving ... But we want freedom and we want a advanced standard of living, so we will have a billion people” I remember that from the first calculations of the Malthusian experts of the Roman Club "the border of growth" in the first half of the 1970s, erstwhile the planet population was about 4 billion, or half of today's population, Poland was graciously granted an acceptable limit of 17 million inhabitants.

So what's left of these predictions? Over 50 years, the scale of both economical and population growth has not confirmed the catastrophic forecasts of growth balancing supporters, or de facto depopulation, which does not mean that they have given up promoting this idea. The book "Goundaries of Growth" based on computer-imposed forecasts has laid the foundations for, now extensively exploited, narratives that hold human work for climate change at hazard of disaster combined with unsustainable depletion of natural resources, which is simply a simple way to advance the conclusion that the less people the threat of disaster is less.

The planet economical Forum led by Klaus Schwab at its 3rd yearly gathering in 1973 adopted the Maltese assumptions contained in the book "Gronitions of Growth", expanding the ellipse of cooperating with the Roman Club of global institutions specified as the UN, the planet Bank, the global Monetary Fund and the Organisation for economical Cooperation and improvement (OECD). To Malthus’ first balancing factors, read depopulators, specified as wars, hunger and disease, we can add elements to have a set of apocalyptic threats contained in prayer: “From air, hunger, fire and war save us, Lord”. How these threats are to be and how they are utilized for depopulation purposes I will tell in the next column.

Jacek Frankowski

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Think Poland, No. 23-24 (4-11.06.2023)