The following article by Billy Meier gives a complete, detailed explaination of the issues surrounding human overpopulation on Earth and the destructive consequences. Some readers may find the facts presented to be controversal but the fact is that the contents of this article the unequivocal, indisputable truth. This article was taken from http://www.scribd.com/doc/53757132/Billy-Meier-on-Overpopulation-Bomb-Destruction-of-the-Earth.

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Overpopulation bombDesctruction of the EarthDiscrimination against womenThe world's population will double and triple very rapidly unless the insanely uncontrolledprocreation of children is stopped very soon. Undeniably, all social, political, economic, natural,environmental, climatic and ecological problems on Earth can be traced back to the populationexplosion, respectively overpopulation. From the population explosion to the collapse of theecology, and the immediate future of our planet Earth.When the population growth for the year 1993 is observed, one discovers with alarm that duringthis single year nearly 100 million additional humans populated the Earth. More closelyscrutinized, the result shows that three newly born human beings arrived in this world every second:

1 second 3 humans
1 minute 180 humans
1 hour 10,800 humans
1 day 259,200 humans
1 week 1,814,400 humans
1 month 7,884,000 humans
1 year 94,608,000 humans

The year 1994, by comparison, was once again a year in which procreation of children farexceeded the norm, and twice as many humans were born, computing the following results:

1 second 6 human
1 minute 360 humans
1 hour 21,600 humans
1 day 518,400 humans
1 week 3,628,800 humans
1 month 15,768,00 humans
1 year 189,216,00 humans

This is a fact that was neither discovered nor realized by the "World Watchers", otherorganizations or statisticians concerned with these matters, for they stubbornly abide by apseudo-calculation scheme that establishes results only by rule of thumb. The fact is, however,that some years run contrary to the statisticians' rule on population growth, and it is possible thatfewer or more additional inhabitants of Earth are born during a particular year. And 1994 was sucha year when twice as many children were born than was anticipated. An additional element thatcomes into play is the fact that the world's population is considerably larger than the rule-of-thumb statistics lead others to believe, because many nations are capable of only providingpopulation approximations, whereby many people are overlooked and this amounts to between 200 and 500 million people at any given time who are not counted in the overall population totals. Hence, the "World Watchers Record" and their statistics are not correct when their figures showthat at the beginning of 1995 the Earth's population consisted of 5.75 or 5.85 billion humans. Thetruth is, instead, that on February 14, 1995, the total population amounte already to 6.27 billionhuman beings, a substantially larger figure than the statistics indicated. The "World Population Watchers" apparently do not take this discrepancy too seriously; evidently, several hundredmillion people are of no great significance to them. But this is where they err immensely. Thepopulation on Earth has reached the point where each and every human being is significant since each person contributes to the destruction and annihilation of all life on Earth, indeed the planetitself, in a constantly increasing proportion.

By the beginning of 1995, the world was populated by more than 6.27 billion humans; from this time onward, four more people per second are being added to this figure. The rate has since decreased marginally but, nevertheless, compare to the 1993 figure it has increased by oneperson per second, which was the inevitable result when in 1994 many more individuals becamesexually mature and are now bringing more children into the world. Nearly three quarters (75%)of th Earth's inhabitants live in the developing countries; 2 billion of these people are starving,and every day 40,000 children di of hunger and malnutrition for a total of 14 million a year!Hunger generates every type of human adversity such as socia tensions, revolutions and,ultimately, civil and international wars, whereby the battles for goods become increasingly morebrutal and inhumane. For the people involved, a human life no longer has any meaning. Entirenations are plunged int terrorism, anarchy and chaos. Hunger, misery, distress, war, persecutionand massacres force people to flee their homelands and immense human migrations occur inproportions never before experienced. In the Spring of 1995 alone approximately 200 millionrefugees existed. The exodus from the Third World is set into motion like a gigantic humansteamroller, whic begins initially within their home regions, but will soon increasingly expand in anorthern direction – toward the lure of the industrial, economic an welfare nations with their fullcooking pots, wealth, luxury and employment opportunities. However, through migration these opportunities become constantly rarer once the immigrants increasingly begin to occup the jobsand are willing to work for lower salaries than the local residents, who lose their own livelihoodand become welfare recipients as a result.

The wealthy 33% of the world's population reside in the northern industrial and economic nations,and on an average earn over ten times more per capita than the people in the poor Third World'snations to the South. This wealthy third produces 4/5 of the economic output in the world. In theirunrestrained consumption craze, however, the inhabitants of the northern economic nations use 2/3 of the planet's natural resources, raw materials and energy reserves. The total environmentaldestruction initiated by the northern industrial nations is by far more devastating, moredestructive and annihilative than tha produced by all Third World countries put together, eventhough the industrial nations have on hand more advance technology, and are more capable of protecting their environment and of preventing damage to their surroundings than the developingnations.

Approximately 70% of all motor vehicles in the world are in the northern hemisphere, and theygreatly accelerate the industrial nations' share of atmospheric and environmental pollution.Furthermore, people living in the northern industrial nations use nearly 100 times more water perperson than inhabitants of the Third World – therefore they generate the largest and mostmassive share of water pollution, e.g., creeks, rivers, lakes and oceans. The steady increase inagricultural industrialization and its constant, unrelenting utilization of chemicals completely leachthe soil and result in steadily decreasing harvests, increasing erosion and the rapidly escalatingdeath of various species. Likewise, animals of all types are shot and exterminated in the "spirit of the sport" and for other threadbare reasons which, of course, exclude their protection and careby gamekeepers and wardens. Additionally, the world's oceans, creeks, rivers and lakes areoverfished by small but highly mechanized fishing crews and fishing fleets with state-of-the-arttechnology. They negligently and irresponsibly decimate the supply of aquatic animals. Today, thefish yield by these expeditions is rapidly diminishing and many types of fish and other aquaticdwellers are threatened with extinction, while others have been exterminated altogether. However,the Third World nations to the South irresponsibly and criminally deplete nature as well. People,criminally and systematically, are cutting down the tropical rain forests; and as of the beginning of 1995, the forests have already been reduced, destroyed or annihilated to half of their original size.

The irresponsible degree and speed of environmental changes generated by humans can beclearly witnessed through satellite surveillance. Indeed, remote sensing photos prove that the AralSea in the lowlands of Turan in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has shrunk by 50% in just 30 years,whereby 40% of that reduction occurred within a few years. This outlet-free salt lake is fed by theAmudarja and Syrdarja rivers, which can only reach into the lake during wet years, measured54,400 square kilometers (21,004 square miles) in area. By 1990 the lake had shrunk by 40%over a period of 15 years, due to water depletion for irrigation. This shrinkage has led to irrecoverable death of fish in this once fourth largest lake on Earth and has brought to an end thefishing industry and utilization of its fish. The blame rests upon agriculturists technicians,scientists and the government. One group drained water from the lake for intensive irrigation of gardens and agricultural grounds, the other groups provided the means and ways to do this, whilethe government in charge authorized everything and looked on without intervening. Such actionsoccur in nearly all nations on Earth, but are simply modified in one way or another depending onthe circumstances. In the Mediterranean Sea, enormous destruction results, therefore, whenvarious types of fertilizers and sewage drift into the sea from the Po river plains, and the Adriatic Sea becomes constantly polluted. The result from this pollution is a growing, horrendous annualalgae plague that suffocates all lower life in the sea. Likewise, the harbor towns of Naples, Genoa,Brindisi, Catania, Syracusa, Trapani, Palermo, Marseille and many others contribute their share tothis pollution as they simply route their poisonous sewage into the sea.

A further gigantic, global threat is occurring as the Earth's ozone layer is depleted as a result of Man's fault and irresponsibility. Not only is the opening in the ozone layer above the South polegrowing larger from year to year but elsewhere as well, for Man is destroying this indispensable protective layer against UV rays. These life-threatening UV rays from space now strike the Earth'ssurface more powerfully and endanger every terrestrial life form. Above the Northern hemispherea rapid thinning of the ozone layer is taking place as it, too, becomes dangerously depleted. Thehole in the ozone layer is measurably and noticeably expanding and now reaches the temperatezones, resulting in "black cancer", or skin cancer in humans.

Concurrently, an artificially created greenhouse effect, generated by Man, is developing on aglobal scale that threatens life on Earth with total climatic collapse. Every type of unnaturalcatastrophe in nature directly results also from the huma destruction mania. Meteorologists aretoday registering an increase in natural disasters, such as tropical hurricanes or cyclones, and abnormal droughts and floods. Even earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are a part of thisscenario, although scientists continue to maintain that these events are purely natural, which is not consistent with the truth. Indeed, every one of these events has not been a totally naturaloccurrence in the customary, natural extent for a long time.

The ice caps at the Arctic and Antarctic poles, the icy plains of Greenland and the mountainglaciers are melting down rapidly and may raise worldwide ocean water levels. Entire low-lyingisland nations, as well as coastal regions will b endangered and could eventually vanish beneaththe rising waters.

In his absurdity and selfishness, Man, who loves to call himself the crowning glory of Creation, hasproliferated to such a degree that he has now become a vicious threat to all life throughout the globe. Man is the greatest menace to the Earth. He has by now initiated dangerous changes tocountless lives worldwide, while humankind's population continues to grow incessantly at a furious, constantly increasing pace. For this reason alone Earth continues to turn into a wasteland.Man's insane desire to procreate is now leading him to the point where every social, ecologicaland economic woe is climbin immeasurably beyond the point of recovery.

Man is a part of Earth but he fails to understand the way of life. In his view not every humanbeing is identical to the other, and if one belongs to another color, another race or variety, or if that person is simply a stranger, he or she will not be accepted, but is disregarded or hated,debased and persecuted. Power hungry and powerful individuals grab land an possessions fromthe helpless – and Man is dealing likewise with his native land, the Earth. He treats the Earth as acomplete stranger, lives strictly for his own benefit and not for harmony between Earth and all lifeon it. He creeps in like a thief in the night, as a stranger, and robs the Earth of whatever herelishes; or, conversely, he destroys and annihilate everything on the planet as he pleases. He fails to live in harmony with the planet, his own Mother Earth and, instead, he ha become herenemy; immediately upon conquering and subduing one part of her, he moves on to effect thesame destruction elsewhere.

Man treats his native land, the Earth, its atmosphere, its bodies of water, its entire environmentand its diverse life forms and species as objects, which he may simply utilize, use, destroy, plunder and then discard and destroy when he is through with them. Man's voracious appetitefor everything the Earth has to offer, and his excessive urge to procreate will ultimately devourand destroy the planet and all life on it, where he will leave nothing behind except for a dead,barren wasteland. How did terrestrial Man fall into this current dreary and destructive situation?To answer the question, the development from Ma 's initial beginnings through to his currentdevelopment must be considered. Over the past several million years, the human species, knownas homo sapiens, continually multiplied to such an extent that it inhabited the entire world. In thefirst year (year 1 AD) of Christian time calculation, a mere 102.4 million human beings lived onEarth. By the year 1000 AD, Earth's entire population had grown to 300 million. Wars of all types,plagues and epidemics repeatedly killed million of people, particularly during the Middle Ages. InEurope, especially during the 14th century, the "black death" decimate the population,whereupon the plague raged and prevailed to such a degree that humans died in great numbers,which ultimately amounted to many millions of deaths. Then, with initial major successes inmedicine, Man's deathrate rapidly dropped of again, which resulted in more births than deaths.The population began growing at an accelerated pace, and by 1810 the population reached its firstbillion mark. Of course, not only did the number of new inhabitants increase on Earth, but thespeed at which they multiplied also escalated. A dramatic problem arose that laid the path for thefuture destruction of al available living space, all life forms and the planet itself. Inevitably, earlywarnings were expressed in regard to humanity's rapid growth increases and their destructiveconsequences. These warnings were disregarded, however, in the same way they are ignoredtoday, at a time when the entire world is speaking of the global destruction caused byoverpopulation. Meanwhile Man continues to suppress the overpopulation problem instead of doing something about it.

By 1926, in a world of 2 billion inhabitants, humankind observed a doubling of its population –after only 116 years. By 1960 the human population had already reached 3 billion, and by 1977 itwas 4 billion. Therefore, it took just 51 years for the next doubling of the population. Ten yearslater, in 1987, the Earth's population totalled 5.1 billion; and by February 1995, after only a mereeight years –believe it or not – the number climbed to 6 billion. This figure is approximately 300million higher than the incorrect worldwide statistics indicate. Clearly then, homo sapiens tookseveral million years, about 4.5 million years beginning with the first human being, to reach thepopulation mark of 1 billion, and then it took a mere 185 years to reach a number of humanbeings on Earth six times that large. These statistics should not come as a surprise, however,when overpopulation advocates such as the Catholic Supreme Shepherd, the Pope, vehementlyand cunningl entice people; indeed, through their religious faith they practically force theirfollowers to produce unlimited numbers of childre in order to establish for themselves unlimitedfollowers who, in turn, can be exploited by the Catholic Church. The Pope often quotes a biblicaledict, which is, mildly put, irrational and criminal. The edict promotes the insanity of cultivating anoverpopulation and is expressed in Genesis, Chapter 9, Verse 7 with the following words:

"And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it."

This is precisely what happened – and it continues even to this day. The edict is still fostered as acriminal deed against humanity, life and the planet not only by the Pope, his cardinals, bishops,priests and others, but also by their faithful believers. Even some governments, communities andother authorities officially pay large procreation and child support funds to the duped followers of these religions. Furthermore, by blindly adhering to the Pope, followers stifle all commo sensefrom the very start. The Pope not only prohibits an often life-saving or otherwise vital abortion,but also all preventive measures and other birth control devices that would avert a pregnancy andprocreation. He and his follower look upon abortion or any type of birth control device asblasphemous and inhumane. Yet, the Pope says nothing about the fact that innumerable womenfall into need and misery when they become pregnant and give birth to children, or when thechildren are abused and mistreated by one or both parents – many women are also abused andmistreated – or when the children miserably starve to death because there is no longer any foodfor them. Is this demeanor not more abominable and inhumane? Apparently, the Pope's positionbother neither him nor any of his followers. When one of the faithful questions this approach, heor she pays a small offering as vindication to calm the guilty conscience. Certainly, neither particular approach nor the sectarian phrases and flowery language will advance terrestrialhumanity, nor will they resolve any of the many problems facing mankind – in particular, they willnot resolve the greatest problem of them all: the planet's overpopulation from which all otherexisting evils and problems throughout the world arise. Humanity's growth rate is outpacing foodproduction by leaps and bounds. Only a drastic reduction in terrestrial population, such as throughplagues epidemics, starvation and wars, etc., can the equilibrium reestablish itself, that is if Manfails to come to his senses and does not stop the further increase in overpopulation by logicalactions and countermeasures. He must initiate and effect strict, radical birth controls; he mustencourage deliberate cessation of births, and must enforce these measures without clemency.

A few words must be directed toward food production. A mere 12% of the entire Earth's land mass surface is entirely arable for agricultural and horticultural purposes. The remainder of the planet'ssurface consists of areas that cannot be cultivated, such as mountains, rocky terrains, tundras,arid regions, forests and deserts. However, the 12% arable land is not proportional to the mass of humanity, because one single human being requires by nature a living space of 83,333 squaremeters (99,665 sq. yds.), and 4000 square meters, or 63.245 x 63.245 meters (4784 sq. yds. or69.166 x 69.166 yards) of fertile ground or garden soil is required to feed him- or herself.Calculated for 6 billion people, this amounts to a total arable landmass requirement of approximately 24 million square kilometers (9.3 million square miles). Such an expanse is notavailable, however, because the entire planet's 12% arable land amounts to 18 million squarekilometers (7.0 million square miles) – 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million sq. mi.) less thanthe 6 billion-strong humanity requires for adequate food production.

This discrepancy widens with every newborn child because the 12% arable landmass neitherincreases nor remains constant. On the contrary, the surface is reduced daily and dwindlesthrough erosion, desertification and the construction of homes, streets, airports, villages, mega-cities and all types of large sport facilities, etc. etc.

Nine kilograms (19.8 lbs.) of grain are required to produce one kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of beef. One kilogram of meat is equivalent to 1 person's daily food requirement. By comparison, these same19.8 lbs. of grain would feed 16 people.

Today three million fishing boats operate on the world's oceans and are greatly depleting thesupply of fish and other aquatic life forms. Over the past 40 years fishing quotas have tripled. In 1950, 20 million tons of fish and water inhabitants ended up in Man's food chain. By 1990, this amount increased to 100 million tons per year. Fishermen not only unscrupulously plunder theoceans but also lakes, rivers and creeks for the sake of income and profit – as long as their cashregisters are ringing up returns. Business in this regard is conducted at a very professional level,albeit with total nearsightedness and irresponsibility in every aspect. The depletion of fish stocks has led to overfishing in all oceans and other bodies of water. Many ocean and lake creatures nolonger have the ability to reproduce, or are depleted to such an extent that they are dying out orhave already become extinct.

Man now faces the unfortunate situation where the fishermen, farmers, gardeners and otherscannot keep pace with the demands of population growth. This means that the many tens of millions of people who are born every year, and who add to the current population masses, willonly be fed if the people already alive now restrict their own food consumption. A totally newscenario now comes into play for Man, but he will not adjust to it. Consequently, millions of peoplewill continue to starve to death; indeed, they will starve in ever-increasing numbers.

The Earth's atmosphere and climate present problems as well. In comparison with the size of thisEarth, the atmosphere is actually only a very thin layer. Over the past 500 million years, a well-excogitated natural and complex cycle of patterns kept the ratio of various breathable gases forterrestrial life forms at constant levels. Likewise, the temperature range of the air was kept withinan extremely narrow range. A natural protective shield formed beneath which a moderate, equallynatural greenhouse climate developed and, step by step, a multitude of life forms began toflourish. However, over the last 100 years everything has changed because Man, his technology,production of poisons and other things, interfered with this sensitive equilibrium. He even the Earth's climate and is producing a new, dangerous, life-preventive and destructive greenhouseeffect that threatens to slowly destroy everything. This is Man's self-betrayal that will lead to hisown destruction and the annihilation of all life forms and of the planet itself. Every year 23 billiontons of CO2 are released into the atmosphere through fossil fuel burning and motor vehicle enginecombustion; 1 million tons of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are released into the atmosphere by thechemical industry and consumers; 380 million tons of methane gas are generated by cattlefarming, rice cultivation and garbage dumps in addition to 11 million tons of nitrogen-monoxidefrom nitrogen fertilizers and biologic mass burning.

Beyond a doubt, Man alone is responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer, the greenhouseeffect and climatic changes on Earth – the larger the human population on Earth, the worse andmore irremediable the situation becomes. Unquestionably, the climatic changes now evident willlead to increases in hurricane activity and other destructive natural events with catastrophicconsequences.

The overpopulation blight prevails simply because women are suppressed, disregarded andabused; they are considered inferior to men and are, therefore, condemned. A great many womenhave no rights. As a consequence, the men, especially through their religious faiths, threaten andstrictly prohibit abortion and the utilization of birth control. These forms of discrimination occurnot only within Christianity and its sects, but also in other religions and their associated sects, asthe following brief excerpts prove:

Islam/Koran – Sure 4

"Men are above the women, because Allah has given the one part a superiority above the other."


Confucius

"One hundred girls are not worth as much as one boy."


Hinduism

"A woman must never enjoy independence."


Christian Bible: Paul to the Ephesians in the New Testament

"The women shall be vassals to their men who are their masters."

The above quotes clearly demonstrate the value of women based upon a religious viewpoint andone upheld by many men. Still, these discriminatory words against women, though spoken in thepast, nevertheless prevail even today. Such attitudes also guarantee the abuse of women as beingmere birthing machines without being provided the necessary means with which to fight back.This, in turn, ensures that overpopulation is able to freely forge ahead, at an accelerated rate andin a more irretrievable manner.

The Catholic Church has erected an influential and powerful defense against the prevention of having children, respectively birth control. The Church holds a totally irrational attitude againstany form of birth regulation and birth control, hence, it is adamantly against all rights of womenand their own decision-making aspirations on children or pregnancy termination. Politicians as wellcurb women's rights in this manner. They sit in judgement and rob the women of their freedom byway of national laws. The result: unrestricted increases in birthrates are allowed to thrive inCatholic circles (along with those of other religions) and endanger all life on Earth, indeed, thevery existence of the planet. The unrestrained procreation of children without the capability introduce birthrate cessation and birth control is equivalent to fostering a culture of death. Thecriminal Holy Chair of Rome, respectively the Pope and all his lieges, have a horrendous power,whereby its occupant (as well as other religions and their representatives) leads all humanity andall life on the planet into misery, desolation, devastation and destruction.

The Pope and the College of Cardinals at the Vatican constitute the highest authority of theCatholic Church, which has a worldwide following of approximately 1 billion believers of all races.In 1968, Pope Paul VI's Encyclical Humanae Vitae came into force, whose title reads as follows:"On the correct order of passing on human life." Item # 14 describes the forbidden means of birthcontrol in great detail, in the exact manner by which the means were concocted by the Pope, hiscardinals and others in order to discriminate against women; to curtail their rights and to permitthe continuation of the world population's uncontrolled growth – to the detriment and destructionof mankind, all life and planet Earth.

Encyclical Humanae Vitae, Item # 14"The direct termination of a procreation that has already begun, particularly by direct abortion –even when undertaken for curative purposes, is not a legitimate method to curb the number of children and is, therefore, an absolute abomination."Likewise, the direct, permanent or temporary sterilization of the man or the woman must becondemned."Equally objectionable is any action that intentionally prevents propagation, or is employed as ameans to this prevention in anticipation of, during or after the consummation of the matrimonial act." One last item must be mentioned here: Anything the Pope says is hostile to humanity and life,and must simply be ignored, therefore, His prattle is irrelevant. What he says is without actualcorrelation to the issues now confronting the world and humanity.Billy Meier