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“Population Growth Driving Climate Change, Poverty: Experts”
by Breitbart.com
September 22nd, 2009

Unchecked population growth is speeding climate change, damaging life-nurturing ecosystems and dooming many countries to poverty, experts concluded in a conference report released Monday.

Unless birth rates are lowered sharply through voluntary family-planning programmes and easy access to contraceptives, the tally of humans on Earth could swell to an unsustainable 11 billion by 2050, they warned.

The UN currently projects that global population will rise from 6.8 billion today to between 8.0 and 10.5 billion by mid-century.

The researchers said that with one and a half million more humans climbing aboard the planet every week, a recipe is looming for ecological overload, famine and broken states.

"Continued rapid population growth in many of the least developed countries could lead to hunger, a failure of education and conflict," said Malcolm Potts at the University of California in Berkeley, which hosted the conference in February.

The papers, authored by 42 specialists in environmental science, economics and demography, are published by the Royal Society, Britain's de-facto academy of sciences.

"There is no doubt that the current rate of human population growth is unsustainable," summarised Roger Short, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Art's Commentary.....God said to Adam and to Noah, "Be fruitful, and multiply". God placed man on the earth and commanded him to take dominion over the earth and to fill the earth. God said because of his sin, man would have to work and by the sweat of his brow obtain a living from the earth. The earth is given to man as a marvellous home and latent in the earth is everything man needs sustain him. As the population has grown over the years, new resources have been discovered to meet the needs of the larger numbers. God has also endowed man with the intelligence to use those resources to meet the world's expanding needs.

Man's problem is not that God has not provided for him in the resources of the earth, but rather the problem is man's sin. The earth is cursed because of man's sin and we read in Romans that when the curse of sin is lifted from man, the curse will be lifted from the earth and all of creation, Romans 8:19-23.

Today, there are those that are opposed to God and everything He says in His Word. When you see God with the eye of faith, you have no trouble trusting Him to keep His promises and meet every need. When the heart rejects God, it rejects everything God has said in His word. Men reject God's command to multiply out of unbelief and fear. Men who do not know God will not trust Him to provide. Men reject God's commands concerning, marriage, immorality, abortion, homosexuality, idolatry and the whole counsel of God in His Word. If God says it, were against it. The world is divided into two groups of people, those who obey and believe God and trust Him to provide. The other group are those who will not obey God and will not trust Him. This group has come up with another program to replace the program of God.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13