With continuing increases in crop yields, the world’s farmers are harvesting hundreds of millions of tons more grain each year on tens of millions acres less land than they did in the 1970s and ’80s.

According to USDA figures, the world was producing 1.9 MILLION metric tons of grain from 579.1 hectares of land (a hectare is 2.47 acres) in 1976.

In 2004, we got 3.1 MILLION metric tons of grain from only 517.9 hectares of land.


The TRUE state of poverty is not just a state of having less money or posessions than others around you. Although those details are an integral part of poverty, real poverty is the lack of dignity and quality of life that results from that lack of money or possessions.

In other words, human beings require more than simple survival to make our lives worth living. Poverty in terms of statistics can be tricky sometimes


Poverty isn’t a disease or a “condition,” like the measles or a broken leg. Poverty is the state of not having what we need.

POVERTY is a terrible state we all revert to when our support structures are removed.

Poverty is like darkness: it isn’t a thing. It’s the LACK of a thing.

The MOST EFFECTIVE way that poverty has been DEFEATED is by INFRASTRUCTURES that HUMANS have SET UP.

When poverty does exist, it is when these infrastructures either



“FIXING”poverty is about FIXING BAD INFRASTUCTURE, NOT about eliminating people.

The fact is the poorest nations in the world are often among the least populated.

The CONGO is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a meager per capita GDP of only $300. The Congo’s population density is only 75 people per square mile, a fairly light population density

Compare twith the NETHERLANDS, one of the wealthiest countries in the world with per capita GDP of $39,200 with a population density of 1,039 people per square mile.

You claim that when people move to more crowded areas, they’re actually more likely to get out of poverty. Prove it.

In 2008, the World Bank paper called “Urban Poverty: A Global View” discussed the effects of urbanization .

People who moved to urban areas were not only more likely to ESCAPE poverty, but were also likely to be better off over time because “urbanization contributes to sustained economic growth which is critical to poverty reduction.” (emphasis ours)

Overall the urbanization process has played an important role in poverty reduction by providing new opportunities  … growth and job creation.”

Of course, poverty in crowded areas still exists (which is the larger point of this paper). But the point is that it continues to exist in spite of, rather than because of human population.

What is it that brings human beings out of poverty?

Like most things, the answer to poverty isn’t any one simple thing.

The MOST EFFECTIVE method to alleviate poverty requires one primary ingredient: community.


to escape poverty HUMANS need OTHER human beings. Solitary human beings are incapable of solving some of the most basic problems that need to be solved in order for their lives to improve.

Community … collection of minds and a multiplication of labor allows human beings to solve problems and accomplish more difficult and complicated tasks.

The larger the community, the more effectively and creatively this division of labor is likely to occur.

The multiplication of humans has directly led to the improvement of our species:

The source of improvements in productivity is the human mind. because improvements — their invention and their adoption — come from people.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that simple population growth leads to human improvement. There are plenty of places with large populations that remain poor.

Any time human beings get the opportunity to work together and better their situation, the percentage of poor people is likely to drop significantly.


As human POPULATION numbers have GROWN, our average STANDARD of LIVING has GROWNas well.

Every single statistic points to ONE SIMPLE TRUTH: that as POPULATION has GROWN over time, the AVERAGE PERSON has BECOME BETTER OFF

Measures show RISING per capita income – average life expectancy, average height, caloric consumption, sugar consumption, cotton consumption, even beer consumption.

Every single one of these averages has been steadily INCREASING over time as the population has grown.

This is in direct contradiction to overpopulation alarmists, who hold that as population increases poverty becomes more severe.

They claim that this is simple common sense. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, science actually shows the opposite.

As population grows, productivity and innovation GROW, which means that more and more people have access to the goods and services that they need.

Maybe population CONTROL IS NOT the ANSWER to poverty.


Population control programs don’t just miss the point on poverty … they DISTRICT from it.

Poverty can be ALLEVIATED by a number of different programs.

But when the focus is on bringing down population, valuable time, energy, and resources are spent solving a “problem” that doesn’t exist, rather than the real problems at hand.

“Family planning” programs miss the point, especially in places like Africa — which is that the people need legitimate, concrete aid.

People who are hungry, cold and exposed need food, water, and shelter — not population control.


Did Paul Ehrlich really say that famines would devastate humanity in the 1970s?

Yep. In his 1968 work The Population Bomb, Ehrlich stated:


What’s the UNFPA? How do they profit from fear?




No way everyone could fit in Texas …


Divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person.


Given an average four person family, every family would have a 66′ x 66′ plot of land, which would comfortably provide a single family home and yard – and all of them fit on a landmass the size of Texas.


Where are you getting these numbers?

U.N. Population Database provides Low, Medium, and High Variants, the Low Variant is the one that keeps coming TRUE

The world’s population will PEAK in 30 YEARS

According to the U.N. Population Database, using the hisrically accurate low variant projection, the Earth’s population will only add another billion people or so over the next thirty years, peaking around 8.02 billion people in the year 2040, and THEN it will begin to DECLINE




If current trends persist, our growth will halt right around 8 billion by 2045.


If you find this whole idea counterintuitive, don’t worry! You’re not alone. At first glance, it really does seem like population is skyrocketing. That’s because we’re still adding a billion people every few decades . . . and a billion people is a lot of people.


Are the UN’s predictions are reliable?

It depends on which variant you use.

The UN’s predictions have been compared with real life – and in every case the “low variant” has been the most accurate.

Even if population growth is slowing down, a BILLION people every 15 years is still a LOT of people.


It is a lot of people. Greater numbers bring their own challenges and issues.



But population growth DID NOT create these problems–they have have EXISTED SINCE SINCE PEOPLE HAVE EXISTED.

We can’t blame population for problems that have been around forever.


WHY has the global total FERTILITY rate DROPPED so much?







Demographic experts observe as more and more of the human race find itself living under urban conditions in which children NO LONGER provide any economic benefit to their parents, but are rather costly impediments to material success,


A World in 2050 report presents economic growth projections for 32 of the largest economies in the world, accounting for around 84% of global GDP.

Reports rojects the world economy to GROW at an average of just over 3% per annum in the period 2014 – 50,

DOUBLING in SIZE by 2037 and nearly TRIPLING by 2050.



China has already overtaken the US in 2014 to become the largest economy in purchasing power parity (PPP2) terms. In market exchange rate (MER) terms, we project China to overtake the US in 2028 despite its projected growth slowdown.

India has the potential to become the second largest economy in the world by 2050 in PPP terms (third in MER terms), although this requires a sustained programme of structural reforms3
