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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Debunking the Overpopulation Myth 0:10 Well, welcome to chapter 46 of the book, Reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. Chapter 46 is titled population growth. Well, you0:22 know what the alarmist would have you to believe? Oh my goodness. There's too many people. The problem is people. There's too many people. And so what did they say? Don't procreate. Don't don't populate the earth.0:34 There's simply too many people. Clear back in 19 68, Paul Irich's book, The Population Bomb, warned us that the earth was gonna be overloaded, has too many people. We have to0:46 get rid of people. We have to stop procreating. Well, since that time, the earth's population has doubled. 8000000000 people. And no, the Earth didn't cease to exist. There's all kinds of0:57 groups trying to warn us how bad it is if we have too many people. There's the population council, the population services international, population matters, the United Nations Population1:09 Fund. It was founded a year after Paul Eric's book, The Population Bomb. All these warning us, the Earth just cannot take any more people. And they're saying, make sure you don't have any more children. So what1:21 have some people done in more recent years with high technology? Some people are saying, I'm not gonna have a child. I'm gonna have a virtual child. Can you imagine that? I'm gonna have a virtual child. The metaverse is1:33 gonna create my virtual child by AI, and that way I'll save the planet by not having an actual literal human being child. How utterly you ludicrous that is. Now there's consequences when you do1:45 this. In August of 20 23, an adviser to the World Economic Forum boldly stated, the population collapse is good for the planet. Oh, really? Try1:57 to tell that to Japan. Try to tell that to South Korea. The fact is even in United States, we've fallen below the fertility rates. The fertility rate has to be 2.1 per couple. In other words, each2:08 couple having 2.1 babies. Why why the 0.1? Because some children die in infancy. They'll make it to adulthood. So it takes the 0.1 to make sure we actually the 2 replace themselves. That's a2:20 replacement. So 2 people replacing themselves with 2 people is what that amounts to. That's the population just holding steady at that particular point. And and across Europe, Western Europe, in particular,2:33 it's 1.61 0.21 0.51 0.3. In the US, we've dropped well below the 2.1. This is reason for concern. No society does well economically or otherwise.2:45 No society does well economically that starts on the trend of going below that 2.1 number. Japan is in a crisis free fall. It's interesting. I was talking with a a member2:57 of the senate in Japan. He happens to be a Buddhist. And we were, visiting together, and, we were talking about I said, your population is decreasing. I can't remember the numbers now. Something like from hundred and3:08 28000000 down to hundred and 20000000. It was going down pretty rapidly and, with some ominous signs in the future. He said, yes. It is, and it's alarming. I said, do you realize your3:20 stance on abortion, your the abortion laws in your land are contributing to this factor? He said, I don't know understand what you mean. I said, well, if you're if abortion is killing babies, you can have less3:31 people being born. He literally could not connect the dots. I explained it 2 more times, and I could see a blank look. He couldn't make the connection between abortion, the phenomenon of abortion, killing preborn babies,3:43 and the the population plummeting. But across much of the civilized world, the industrialized world, what we have is a radical drop in in the number of3:55 babies, the number of the fertility rate for couples, and the result is very catastrophic. The only country that's really addressed it head on and addressed it trying to address it really well is Hungary4:07 with prime minister Viktor Orban. And in Hungary, they, they they have 1 of their men that's fairly high level in the government. He has an assignment to try to turn this around. And what is their what is their4:19 policy? It's a pro family, pro birth policy, a pro life policy. In fact, if you'll have 2 children, you'll get, half your student debt4:30 canceled. If you'll have 3 children, you'll get all your student debt canceled. If you're if you have 4 babies, you'll get you'll have to pay income tax for the rest of your life. If you'll keep having babies, the4:41 government will help buy you a van. If you'll fill up with babies, they'll help even buy you buy you a a car. Now that's a smart country. They're determined to turn that. They also have some incredible4:53 immigration policies to protect their Christian values in that nation that need to be explored. We have reason to admire what Hungary has done. But here here's some of the terms that get used, these alarmists5:05 that tell us we're in a dire situation. The population problem, population pressure, exploding population, overpopulation, population disaster, population challenges,5:17 population explosion, calling for population planning. It's interesting. All the people who think that no no more people should be born are the people who are already born. It's like Ronald Reagan used to say, the only5:28 people in in favor of abortion are the ones that are already alive. My wife and I have attended, 2 different times at the ARC Conference in London, England, organized by Jordan Peterson. Alliance for Responsible5:41 Citizenship is what ARC stands for, ARC. And Jordan Peterson properly calls attention. Even in the brochure, it uses like this. We don't have to live like we're in a constant I'm gonna write these words down because5:52 these are kind of fascinating words you don't hear very much. Permacrisis, meaning, obviously, we're in this permanent crisis. We're we're we're in a a declensionist mode,6:03 decline or declensionist mode. Declensionist, I think, is the word that were they use in their brochure. These these alarmists screaming, oh, no. We got a crisis. They're in permacrisis. He used another6:15 word. Let me let me spell the word catastrophe. But he used it in a different way. I've not I never heard. Catastrophizing. Catastrophizing. He said, we6:27 this cat catastrophizing, I can't even really say it, must stop, said Jordan Peterson. He's right to call attention to that because the the sky is not falling. Chicken Little is wrong on on this6:38 1. How many people can the earth handle? Well, the the alarmists say, oh my goodness. It can't handle 8000000000. It can only handle about 500000000. That's 1 half6:50 billion. Well, it's doing quite well. They want to reduce the population of the earth however they way they possibly possibly can. What about in America? Do we have too many people? No.7:02 We're clustered wrong. We're not distributed properly. If you fly across America, once you get, western west of the Mississippi,7:13 notice how low the population notice the vast amounts of land. And and once you go on the western air, western states, until you get to the, coastal region, just look at the enormous amounts of land7:25 that's available for development for population. And who owns that? The federal government. The federal government owns way too much land. State government owns a lot. In the state of California, I don't remember the7:35 percentage. It's a staggeringly high percentage of the land that is owned by federal or state government. Why? Is that necessary? Absolutely not. Is it nice to have some parks like Yellowstone and such? Of course, it is.7:47 There's a legitimacy to that, but the excessive amount of ownership of land in the west harms us economically and in terms of population growth. They would allow and and not have the7:59 restraints on bringing in water and other natural resources, the mining of natural resources. There is so much productivity. There is so much room for expansion. We have room for way more than8:11 340000000 people in America, and the Earth's gonna be able to handle quite well 8000000000 and more ongoing. God's given this Earth incredible resources. We're not distributed8:22 properly. We're clustered wrong. And most of the problem, quite frankly, of the challenge we have with baby starvation by the way, poverty and starvation has been going8:34 down as the population has been going up during this entire time. The problem is bad governance. It's not too many people. Our problem is not too many people. People8:46 are are blessing. The problem is bad governance To the extent a government will follow the biblical principles of governance we outlined in here, to that same extent, we8:58 will we will reduce human pain, suffering, and poverty. To the extent we violate we violate biblical principles. To that same extent, we increase human pain, suffering, and poverty.9:11 Why? This emphasis upon anti people, anti population, it's part of Satan's strategy. He comes to steal, to kill, and destroy. Why? Why is he why is he after9:22 humans so much? Because they are that part we've said in previous videos. They're the part of God's creation that has the capacity for procreation. Angels can't do that. And on top of that, they're made for the purpose9:34 of worshiping the Lord, honoring the Lord, bringing glory to the Lord, carrying out the commission for which they God put them on earth. And that angers Satan and he stirs up the spirit the spirit of9:46 death, whether it's abortion or euthanasia or everything in between to try to steal, kill, and destroy and destroy the population. Children are a gift of the Lord. Children are a9:57 blessing of the Lord. I say to young couples, they think, well, maybe we better let's not get married. Let's not have babies yet. Maybe let's wait. We're gonna wait till we have a nice house and 3 new cars and no. No.The Real Crisis: Population Decline 10:09 No. No. No. No. Don't do that. Find the 1 that God's ordained for you, a godly wife, a godly husband. Commit under the lordship of Jesus Christ that marriage, and yes, procreate and10:21 have babies and bless the earth and receive the blessing yourself for the children you have. And now, we're moving from culturally woke to biblically awake.10:33 Now let us pray. Almighty father, you have called us to be fruitful and multiply. Children are a blessing and eternal gift from God. We thank you for the nations10:45 that honor life and family. We bind and rebuke the spirit and culture of death that engages in lifestyles that end the procreation of children that cut their10:57 life short even from the womb and that harm our children. Father, forgive us for this atrocity. We declare that children are a gift from the Lord, and they11:08 are a reward of life for those who love him. Father, break this curse of death off our nation. May we love what you love,11:20 and that is our children. We thank you for them, for the blessing that they are. In Jesus' name,11:29 amen. We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Debunking the Overpopulation Myth10:00 The Real Crisis: Population Decline12:00 God's Design: Room for Growth
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