Lunacy of African population crisis
Saturday July 12 2008
Well done to Kevin Myers. At last someone is saying what needs to be said about the reckless population increases in Africa.
How can we be surprised that Ethiopia is suffering from famine when its population is increasing by millions every year? It is presently at 78 million, but is expected to get to 170 million by 2050, or even sooner.
This is lunacy, given the country's miserable condition. And it is the same with other African countries, notably the Congo, which is undergoing a similar massive increase.
But why does nobody say this, apart from Mr Myers?
Instead, we get the same old mantra about "curing" world poverty, and the need for us to continue "aiding" Africa, and somehow helping it to develop up to first-world standards -- when, in fact, we are doing the very opposite.
Why does the Ethiopian government not encourage birth control, like the Chinese do, however cruelly?
And why will no one address the issue of such reckless population increases -- not Bono, the Aid agencies, nor the UN?
