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About That Overpopulation Problem<\/a><\/h2>\n

Slate Magazine – JEFF WISE – Jan 9, 2013<\/p>\n

Research suggests we may actually face a declining world population in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor hundreds of thousands of years,\u201d explains Warren Sanderson, a professor of economics at Stony Brook University, \u201cin order for humanity to survive things like epidemics and wars and famine, birthrates had to be very high.\u201d Eventually, thanks to technology, death rates started to fall in Europe and in North America, and the population size soared. In time, though, birthrates fell as well, and the population leveled out. The same pattern has repeated in countries around the world. Demographic transition, Sanderson says, \u201cis a shift between two very different long-run states: from high death rates and high birthrates to low death rates and low birthrates.\u201d Not only is the pattern well-documented, it\u2019s well under way: Already, more than half the world\u2019s population is reproducing at below the replacement rate. Go to story<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Problem is not number, but godlessness<\/h3>\n

excerpt from lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam<\/em>, Canto 7, Chapter 9, Text 9, Montreal, July 6, 1968<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Pope says that “You cannot use contraceptive method. It is sinful.” But actually people are doing that because dictated by k\u0101ma, lust. It is actually very sinful, it is br\u016b\u1e47-haty\u0101<\/em>, murder. So how you can be that happy by continually committing murders? It is not possible. Therefore every religion, the contraceptive method will never be supported. It is br\u016b\u1e47-haty\u0101 mah\u0101-p\u0101pa<\/em>, according to Vedic literature. So they are now proposing that you cannot use contraceptive devices, but people have become mad after lust. They must use. They are putting the population theory, but I don’t believe in it. The population theory, that “Population is increasing; therefore it should be stopped by contraceptive method,” Malthus’s theory, in economics, they are following that. But actually there is no such problem, because if we understand from Vedic literature, from Upani\u1e63ad<\/em>, it is said, nityo nity\u0101n\u0101\u1e41 cetana\u015b cetan\u0101n\u0101m eko bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 vidadh\u0101ti k\u0101m\u0101n:<\/em> (Ka\u1e6dha Upani\u1e63ad<\/em> 2.2.13) “That Supreme Personality of Godhead is one, and the living creatures are many, many, without any number.” Asa\u1e45khya:<\/em> you cannot count how many living entities are there. So both of them are eternal, God and the living entity, nityo nityan\u0101n\u0101m. Cetana\u015b cetan\u0101n\u0101m. Cetana<\/em> means living. So He is also a living entity, God, and we are also living entities. But what is the difference? That eka, eka,<\/em> that one singular number living entity, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, or God, eko bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 vidadh\u0101ti k\u0101m\u0101n,<\/em> He is supplying all the necessities of other living entities. So how there can be any population problem if God is supplying everything?<\/p>\n

But there is restriction. How there is restriction? When people become godless, there is restriction of supply. Just like practical experience. I am saying from my practical experience that in my childhood I saw that India was exporting millions of tons of rice and wheat and other grains also, oil seed grains, huge export business. That India is now begging grains from other countries. You see. Why? Because they are gradually becoming godless. The population theory I don’t believe, because if K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is supplying, eko bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 vidadh\u0101ti k\u0101m\u0101n<\/em>… And actually we find that there is no population problem. Amongst the animals, amongst the birds, there is no contraceptive method. They are increasing their population, and they are being fed by God. So why in the human society the population theory is so acute? Because they are becoming less than animals. The animals, they beget, they mate at a certain period, but a human being, at the present moment, they have no such restriction. Any time. Therefore they want contraceptive method.<\/p>\n

Living entities are eternal – no increase<\/h3>\n

excerpt from lecture on Bhagavad-gita<\/em> 2.12, London, August 18, 1973<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nityo nity\u0101n\u0101m<\/em>. So every living entity is nitya<\/em>. As K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is nitya<\/em>. He is singular number we are plural number. That is the difference. We are many; K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is one. There cannot be many K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47as. But there are many living entities. So what is the difference between the singular number? That is also stated here: eko bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 yo vidadh\u0101ti k\u0101m\u0101n<\/em>. This one singular number is supplying all the necessities of this plural number. Is it not fact? We are very much disturbed over population. That is all nonsense. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is quite able, if there is overpopulation… There cannot be overpopulation, because there are already ananta living entities, what to speaking of overpopulation? It is already there, you cannot count. There is no question of… There are already overpopulation. And they can be provided by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Eko bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 yo vidadh\u0101ti k\u0101m\u0101n<\/em>. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is not limited; He is also unlimited. He can provide unlimited living entities. There is no scarcity of food. So this theory that overpopulation is nonsense. It is also nonsense. There cannot be overpopulation. But there is restriction, by nature. Nature will restrict production of food if there are demons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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