Katherine Frisk – The solution to poverty, overpopulation and the obvious threat this poses to the dwindling availability of resources that cannot sustain large populations is obvious. But the solution requires investment, time, patience and hard work. It requires money.

In the 20th century all of this was available to us, but many instead chose more profitable options such as armed conflict and genocide which is the aftermath of war; or poisonous genetically modified maize which increases infertility and cancer rates; vaccines disguised as anti-malaria in order to make women infertile; or viruses like HIV, Bird Flu, Mad Cow disease or Ebola. Cull ém and make a profit.

The real solution is the education of women. All women. This requires money and investment. Singapore took this option and in a short span of time, reduced poverty levels and created a stable population growth rate that would not threaten this islands limited resources. Birth control and family planning was part of the program. They did not resort to dictatorship coups and the culling that invariably ensues justifying these actions with excuses that range from “political dissidents,” “liberals,””communists,” “terrorists” or “engineered civil war.”

A country like India which has a disastrous over population problem and poverty levels so horrific that are not seen in many other parts of the world, is exacerbated by little to no education for the majority of women coupled with a medieval caste system. The cause is a social and economic system where women are third class citizens, forced into arranged marriages, the purpose of which is the transference of wealth from the bride’s family to the bridegroom with expensive dowries attached. In other words, parents pay a heavy price to marry off their daughters. The resulting poverty and overpopulation is dealt with by abducting women and forcing them to have their tubes tied rather than educate them. Bride killings are also common.

In South Africa poverty levels even after 20 years of ANC rule is still blamed on “the whites.” A convenient whipping boy for all current social, economic and political problems. But the root cause for high poverty levels and unemployment is the low standard of education for the vast majority of black women, coupled with a disastrous social scourge where almost 50% of women are single parents, some supporting up to six children with little to no financial and emotional support from the fathers of those children. The situation has been exacerbated by a decline in family values and responsible parenting; high divorce rates; the institution of marriage denigrated; and the proliferation of hard-core and often violent pornography that has as its spawn, rape, sexual child abuse, teenage prostitution and unwanted babies. Continue reading →