An open letter to all the Governments and other responsible persons of the worldBy Billy Meier.
www.figu.org
Already on the 5th of July, 1951 and on the 25th of August, 1958 I sent warnings to all the governments
and other responsible persons of the world concerning the coming events on Earth with respect to the
climate and human beings as well as their behaviour. They were warnings in regards to predictions that
have been totally fulfilled in a frightening way. My warnings were based on an absolute certain source
regarding the given predictions for the future of Europe and the entire world. These predictions had
nothing to do with prophecies, because these predictions were based on a look into the real future from
which the following resulted: In only a few years, the climatic conditions in Europe and in the entire world
were altered through the human beings’ actions in such a dramatic way, that through the climate’s rising
temperature resulting from the greenhouse effect, extreme storms of all kinds appeared to such an extent
that they caused tremendous material damage to land, houses and other buildings, roads, mountains,
train tracks, streams, rivers and lakes. Tremendous storms, typhoons, tornados, and hurricanes as well as
ice-, rain- and snow-storms, droughts, flooding, rockslides, forest fires, earthquakes, oceanquakes, tsun-amis
and volcanic eruptions were unleashed throughout the world; and all this will continue to occur in
the future and will even worsen. Hundreds of thousands of human beings have already been killed by
these climatic induced changes and storms, and the death toll will furthermore run into the millions, be-cause
in the coming times the atmospheric warming and climatic changes will be even faster and stron-ger,
which can no longer be stopped anymore. Already in the 1950s I warned: «This does not mean the
end of the extraordinary incidents, because after the 21st century has started, nature will rise even more
powerfully against the human being’s environmentally destructive madness and will reach such a dimen-sion
that it will be a reminder of the Earth’s primeval time.»
When the entire climate disaster and the coming events produced from the climate change are examined
and analysed, then the earthly future looks gloomy. However, something which even now is accepted as
the truth by only a few responsible ones is, that the human beings of Earth shoulder the blame to a great
extent – actually up to around 75% – for the coming troubles and chaos as well as all disasters of every
kind. Although the strong forms of the coming catastrophe have already become recognizable, and for
realists visible, there are still pathological fools as well as irresponsible know-it-alls, governments and
scientists etc., who still antagonistically claim the opposite. The fact that the real reason for all existing
troubles on Earth is not being acknowledged and nothing useful is undertaken to fix them, is all the more
a factor not being recognized. The amount of stupidity present in not recognizing and not understanding
the effective factors of the truth and reality is just as great an amount as found in refusing the sole effective
and achievable radical measure; a measure based on a drastic restriction or reduction of the overpopula-tion
through a regulation of a worldwide birth stop or through a rigorous regulation of births.à´ŠFinally it should be clear to all the governments, scientists and other responsible persons of Earth, as well
as Earth’s mankind, what the main reason is for all troubles and catastrophes on our planet. However, in
order to understand and accept this, it requires a sound ability to understand, just as it also requires a
sound ability to reason in order to seize what has become the most urgent rigorous and radical measu-res
to counter the ecological devastation and world destruction. It also requires the same ability to reason
in order to get the upper hand on all the misery, the suffering, the plagues, the criminality and crimes as
well as the sexual abuse of children and every other form of child abuse as well as the ever increasing,
degenerated forms of prostitution. This also applies equally to the oppression and exploitation of women,
hate, thirst for revenge, urge to retaliate, religious and political fanaticism and mania, hatred of foreig-ners
and other races, ideological and state-military terror, just as it also applies to the worldwide natural
disasters, the rapid advancement of the global warming and climate change as well as to the air pollution
and the destruction of the environment etc. for which complete countermeasures must be worked out and
implemented. But this will only be useful when the root cause of all the troubles is finally recognised and
the radical countermeasures are seized. However, neither all the high-level responsible ones of Earth nor
the individual human beings of Earth’s population want to recognise and fight this root cause of all
troubles. The main reason for this refusal is the human being’s presumed freedom, to do whatever he likes
– even regardless of the losses – or to be more precise, without consideration that the climate and the
world are being shaken at their foundation and are slowly but surely being destroyed through this incor-rect
freedom of deciding for oneself regarding the fulfilment of ones own wishes and desires etc.
The fundamental problem of all catastrophes and troubles is found in the factor overpopulation because
it alone is responsible for all the destruction, the global warming and ecological devastation, the energy
and water shortages as well as the human being’s degenerations of the worst kind, and all other troubles.
Also the ever growing open prostitution and crime as well as the problems of asylum seekers and
refugees, the neo-nazism and all other small and large problems stem from overpopulation. And when
madmen, like e.g. the Pope and other irresponsible ones, plead for human beings to «go forth and
multiply» then such elements are equal to ideological and religious terrorists and fanatics as well as
political and war criminals – also known as state powers and their vassals, who, in the name of their land,
alleged security and freedom and alleged fight against terrorism, commit murder through the use of their
military and secret services. In view of the widespread overpopulation and its resulting worldwide troubles,
unsolvable problems and blatantly increasing catastrophes among human beings and in nature, it really
is a contemptible crime without parallel against the climate and planet when more descendants are plea-ded
for, instead of putting a stop to it and only allowing descendants when an appropriate legal regula-tion
permits it. The irresponsible ones who nevertheless demand the reproduction madness, or even sup-port
it or who are in a responsible position and do not stop it through decisive laws, should be punished
extremely hard. This applies to governments and every single person of the population. This appears to be
an extreme measure and an interference in the individual’s private sphere, an argument always put
forward as a defence for the private sphere by egoists and those who do not have the necessary ability
to understand, form concepts, draw conclusions, judge and think. In a certain way it may seem so, yet in
regards to a rigorous and controlled birth stop, the private sphere must be conceded if the terrestrial world
is to be kept as a functioning planet and Earth’s human beings are to survive in the end. Out of pure
reason and understanding there is just as much value in giving up a certain part of the private sphere in
favour of the survival of the human race as there is in giving up the egoism of the alleged right to be able
to do whatever one likes. If this does not happen then it can be foreseen at this stage, that the final de-struction
of the planet Earth and the decline of Earth’s humanity or their miserable “vegetating away“ is
only a question of time. That is why it is necessary for all individuals to be aware of their own responsi-bility
in every respect and also to restrict the right of their own private sphere, as far as the procreation
of offspring is concerned.
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 2à´ŠIf any problems are tackled and solutions worked out, then these solutions are already ineffective and are
damned to be useless as soon as they have materialized. During the time when the solution's end project
is worked out and drawn up, it has become obsolete and insufficient to a great extent because the in-crease
of Earth’s population has grown again by hundreds of millions during the time period from plan-ning
to the end product. Consequently the constructed products for the alleviation of the problems are
again to an enormous extent out-dated and require new projects. This results in more and more progres-sive
and endless problems whereby it comes to robbing Peter to pay Paul and so every problem is fol-lowed
by two new problems. Harsh effective measures must be seized against this and against all other
troubles, just as against the machinations of the powerful state leaders desiring world domination, who
trigger off wars all over the world, who wage wars and bring other countries into a state of chaos and
want to break and eradicate their mentality, religion and politics. Through the incredibly fast growing
number of human beings, mankind is forced to exploit and destroy the environment and Earth with in-creasing
frequency and effect, in order to meet the increasing demands of all kinds. Because of the
growing number of human beings these demands increase more and more, whereby nature and the en-tire
environment suffer more and more and are destroyed, which naturally already had a disastrously
destructive effect on the climate for a long time. The planet itself is tormented because atomic and other
explosions disrupt the Earth’s structure and trigger earthquakes. Bodies of water, nature, the atmosphere
and space close to Earth are contaminated, the ancient forests are greedily destroyed and eliminated for
the sake of profit and the Earth’s resources are irresponsibly exploited.
The main priority for the future is: The madness of the overpopulation growth must be drastically preven-ted
and stopped, which, however, is only possible through worldwide rigorous measures concerning a
controlled birth stop. This also requires – through authoritative clarifications – effective measures which
allow to still produce offspring when all the human circumstances are satisfactory and when no factors are
expected that violate the human dignity, the social system, the societal norm as well as the security of the
society, the human race, the planet, the environment and the individual human being etc.
Therefore the world population must be reduced to a reasonable size through a worldwide and controlled
birth stop, because only through this will it be possible to eliminate the increasing demands and their as-sociated
destructions. According to the law of nature, the size of the Earth’s population should not exceed
the amount of 529 million, because the planet has a guaranteed surplus of provisions for this number.
Even three times the number, thus 1.6 billion, but not more, would still be acceptable and could be hand-led
by the planet and its nature. Time is running out and therefore swift action is called for; and this is
your responsibility, you who sit in governments and in other responsible positions, or you who are working
as scientists and now know what needs to be done in order to bring the future, life and the entire world
back into line; even if it will take a very, very, very long time and will take hundreds of years – presumed
that the above-mentioned necessary measures will be seized and put into effect in a useful way in the fore-seeable
future. You who are responsible, act now because time has run out, for the only thing that remains
is to start a new beginning in reason, understanding and logic, otherwise the final catastrophe will be un-avoidable.
Do also pass on this warning to your successors, because the obligation is just as well their re-sponsibility
as it is yours and the one of every other single human being on Earth. This means to act in
the framework of the necessary urgency in order to protect and preserve the land and Earth as well as all
that exists and all the things created by human beings, and to lead all to a healthy, good and positive
future. This also applies to the hard-won worldly goods, the entire nature, the planet and its climate, the
body and life of all human beings and all creatures on land and in the air.
‹Billy› Eduard Albert Meier,
Semjase-Silver-Star-Center, Hinterschmidrueti, 8495 Schmidrueti, Switzerland
Translation: Willem Mondria and Mariann Uehlinger Mondria, Switzerland
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 3à´ŠThoughts on the Overpopulation, its Supporters and Breeders
as well as its Critics and Those Fighting Against it
The majority of human beings, be they normal people or specialists and experts, appear to be incapable
of seeing the larger connections between things as well as questions and problems of our time and to be
not able to grasp them in their entirety and to bring the different facts and perceptions in connection with
each other in order to draw out concrete conclusions and consequences.
Inspite there are always more and more special fields and specializations being created today in which
the one specialist is often unable to communicate with the other because they do not know or don't want
to know anything beyond their special field and terminology. That makes this knowledge practically in-accessible
to those who are not initiated in the respective technical jargon. But one asks oneself, what kind
of knowledge this is, when, on the basis of its complexity and general incomprehensibility, it can only be
shared among the few who are knowledgeable in the special field and not with other people?
When every expert or narrow-minded specialist only tends to his own tiny area of knowledge and is only
knowledgeable in his limited field, it is of no surprise that in our highly specialised society there are
swarms of scientists, economic experts, ecologists, sociologists, politicians, consultants, philosophers and
intellectuals, who are not in the position to be able to recognize that the overpopulation is the root and
main cause for all troubles in our time. How could they when they are not even able to see beyond the
end of their noses!
There is much and loudmouthed talking about all sorts of things; such as the distribution of the global
wealth as a method to fight poverty as well as the moral obligation to give the poor countries more help
and money. Furthermore there is talk about the necessity on the part of the industrial countries, in connec-tion
with the global warming, to reduce the emissions of environmentally harmful gasses, and there is talk
about the emerging energy shortages and the depleting resources as well as about the urgent political
measures to stem the continuously increasing wave of immigrants, which already equals a regular mass
migration.
Also there is a lot of, and with increasing concern, debate generated by pacifistic orientated human
beings as well as religiously stamped human beings as to how to cope with the overall and more frequently
erupting ethnic conflicts, wars, civil wars, dictators etc., which plague our Earth.
But it appears that it has not occurred to almost all of these debating human beings (the few exceptions
prove the rule) and the superexperts who hide behind their abstruse, euphemistic and diplomatic technical
jargon, that the root of all these grave problems and phenomenons have a common deep cause: namely
the overpopulation. Instead of finally acknowledging this fact and working out a corresponding solution,
most of the professional gurus and do-gooders even contradict the fact through flimsy argumentations
about whether the Earth actually really is overpopulated! They claim that there is enough place on the
Earth for many more milliards/billions of human beings, because there are still enough large tracts of
land that are empty or under-populated. There even exists, in the ranks of the blinded population breed-ers,
those who presume that the Earth could easily accommodate up to 30 or 40 milliards/billion human
beings, since, according to their opinion, technological progress or providence will automatically, and for
good, get rid of all the present-day shortages and needs, like for example pollution of the environment and
poverty, through new inventions and discoveries concerning renewable energy sources, production of
foodstuffs etc., so that there would be enough food and clean air for everyone. In addition it is again and
again claimed that the contribution of the large number of human beings to the dangerous environmental
pollution and greenhouse effect was basically incredibly little to almost nothing, since only the out-dated
and dirty industrial and production plants, power plants as well as the heavy road traffic were responsible,
which are mainly found in developing countries. The overpopulation or actual population size had also
nothing to do with the ever more occurring natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, ocean-quakes,
flooding, hurricanes, tornados, cyclones and heat waves, since such natural catastrophes had, of course,
always happened.
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 4à´ŠWhoever has a different opinion and persistently points out the overpopulation as the root cause of all
troubles – namely in the form that without solving the overpopulation, all the other problems would like-wise
not be resolved or at least not effectively –, is frequently branded as a prophet of doom or pessimist.
It is not uncommon to even go so far as to accuse those backing a global control of births and a periodic
controlled birth stops of inhumanity, eugenics as well as of an unwarranted intervention in the private af-fairs
of the fellow human being. Yet the question is, how can those representatives of ideologies, who
through toleration, open or disguised approval and promotion as well as through downplaying the issue
of overpopulation, i.e. the unlimited, uncontrolled and degenerated growth of the world population, be
called humanists when hundreds of millions of human beings are consciencelessly abandoned to a death
from starvation, misery, poverty, epidemics, wars and civil wars and are, in the name of incorrect human-istic
theories and unrealistic religious dogmas, damned to an agonising life? On the other hand it is also
clear that many of those who are aware of the very fast depletion of fossil fuel deposits, on account of the
rapidly increasing exploitation, and in this connection speak of a limit to the economic growth, are not
ready and willing to accept that there is a set natural limit to the population growth as well; because the
Earth’s cultivatable land (on which human beings are able to grow foodstuffs) is not only obviously limi-ted
but always decreasing as a result of the growing overpopulation and the resulting urbanisation (ac-cording
to some studies the amount of productive acreage lost in the 20th century equals that lost in the
previous 1000 years). It is also not so as some wishful thinkers and know-it-alls think, that the insane re-production
of human beings will, at some time through natural ways, i.e. epidemics, starvation, and
natural catastrophes, be stopped and the population size will again be – quite spontaneously – normalized
and take on an environmentally compatible size.
The Catholic church or rather the Vatican plays a particularly inglorious role by all the aggressiveness,
attacks as well as attempts of defamation and covering-up directed against those few, not listened to,
advocates for a real humane solution to the grave troubles of the overpopulation. As has been thoroughly
explained in some newly published books, the Vatican has exercised and still exercises a large, subtle,
lobby-like influence and pressure on the commissions, committees and agencies at the United Nations as
well as on the governments and state leaders of many Catholic and Christian countries of Europe, Africa
and North and South America who are working on the issue of overpopulation. In this way, they block
all efforts, oppose by means of their veto and let everything break down in regards to programs and plans
of the community of peoples, UNO or other individual nations to get the overpopulation under control.
Therefore it is not without reason that President Bush – in return for the help he received in his deceitful
election victory from American Catholic groups as well as other Christian sects – put a law into effect,
shortly after his assumption of office in 2000 which ordered the closing down of a worldwide educational
program for the prevention of pregnancies which was primarily funded by the USA. There is secret and
painstaking work being done by the Catholic Church and other religions to influence politicians to their
favour, and this also includes threatening to stir up the population of Catholic or Christian dominated
lands against those governing and thereby putting the consensus in danger in the event they begin or plan
with unwelcome measures for birth control. In the past at world summits and international conferences
(like at the Cairo Conference) the Vatican did not shrink back from making alliances with otherwise hostile
governments of Islamic countries, and before had even made alliances with murderous dictatorships, as
has been the case in the 1970s with the Mao Regime when it was about pushing through blockades in
regards to the possible birth control program and the hypocritical Catholicism population policy.
When one examines modern history and the present, then one ascertains that the overpopulation for
various reasons was and still continues to be constantly supported and encouraged by different political,
ideological and religious fronts and line of thoughts. Monarchs, dictators, despots, as for example Hitler,
Mussolini, Mao und Stalin, etc., were great and fanatic population growers, because a growing popula-tion
with many children served them and their politics in many ways, like for example raising and de-
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 5à´Šploying armed forces, in order to be able to expand their power and sphere of influence through wars
and conquests of other lands and then to exploit them. For them a large population also meant having a
large work force which were to be put to work in masses in the building of railroads, cities, settlements,
colonies and other works. The rabbit-like reproduced human beings were and still are in many places
used by unscrupulous rulers as workhorses and weapons of war and conquest.
In the present-day overpopulated industrial lands, like for example in Europe, a reduction in the popula-tion
is for politicians and economic leaders a dreaded disaster, and for this reason a hidden or public
birth promoting politic is pursued. This is because the human beings are viewed from a pure economic
and material point of view, i.e. as an affluent mass of passive consumers of goods and services as well
as tax payers and contributors to the pension plans. Since the more that is bought and consumed, the
faster the economy and market grows and in this way capital and profits are increasing.
Ever since the French revolution there is a worldwide conviction among farmers and the working class that
a large number of descendants should and must be produced in order to be able to recruit the necessary
workforce from one’s family, whereby the misconception has also spread that having a large number of
descendants is a good old-age insurance.
At the end of the 18th century, the philosopher Immanuel Kant advanced an ethic according to which the
human being should be an end for himself and should never be used as a means to some end. A similar
principle is also found in the teachings of the old prophets and wise ones and also today in Billy’s Teaching
of the Spirit and in his many other writings. But the ideologies which are bred through the overpopulation
contradict this universal principle or law, because they use and misuse the human beings without excep-tion
as means for their purposes regardless of what it is. All ideologies that have come into being during
the course of modern history and have fought each other, have more or less started with the absurd idea
that the Earth’s resources can be endlessly extracted and that the growth of the number of human beings
and economy have, therefore, no set limits through nature. But by the demographic explosion, this belief
has been very clearly proven to be totally unrealistic, i.e. an unrealistic theory and ideology.
It is an annoying characteristic and manner that has become habitual of many human beings of our
planet, to turn a deaf ear to the timely alarm and warning called out by all responsible-minded, rational
human beings, and even to drown them out with scorn and mockery. This was and is the case with Billy
Meier and the FIGU just as it is and was with others, whose reports, articles, books, talks and prognosis
on the question of overpopulation so far remained unheeded or were denied. That is particularly regrett-able
considering the fact that many of them were and are outstanding individuals who are/were recog-nized
personalities in their field, like for example the ethnologist Konrad Lorenz, the biologists Ernst Mayr,
Paul Ehrlich and Lynn Margulis, the science fiction writer and universal scholar Isaac Asimov, the writers
and visionaries of the future Aldous Huxley and Daniel Quinn, the science journalist Hoimar von Ditfurth,
the astronomers and physicists Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, the ecologist James
Lovelock, the political scientist Giovanni Sartori and last but not least, the engineer Aurelio Peccei. Peccei
founded the research group ‹Club of Rome› in the 1970s and within this framework initiated an impor-tant
series of studies and reports on the problem of overpopulation and had them published. The first and
most well-known of this group’s report, which was published in 1972, bore the title ‹Limits to Growth› and
warned of possible dramatic scenarios in the future, like extreme shortages of raw materials and food,
environmental destruction, world-wide economic crisis and final collapse of the Earth, which, as a result
of a non-stop and constantly growing world population, will be highly likely or in the worst case even
come true in the not all too distant future. The conclusion shows that a series of causes and effects, which
are caused through the overpopulation and are closely coupled with each other, can be summarised in
the following way: When the population grows, then the demand of foodstuffs also grows as well as the
demand for other material goods and commodities. When the demand for foodstuffs grows, then the agri-cultural
production must therefore also grow. When this grows then the use of fertilisers and pesticides
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 6à´Šalso increases and – as a result – the soil becomes increasingly exhausted and poor, so that the erosion
of the fertile acreages grows. When the fertility of the soil is constantly decreasing, then the agricultural
production also decreases and consequently also the amount of foodstuffs. But when the amount of food-stuffs
decreases then the number of undernourished people and those who die from starvation grows.
When the demand for material goods and energies increases, then the industrial production increases
and, consequently, also the extraction of raw materials, water and fuel consumption etc. increases as well,
whereby the Earth’s resources are reduced. But when the Earth’s resources constantly decrease, then there
are more frequent wars and conflicts over these resources. And finally: When the industrial production
grows, the environmental pollution grows accordingly, and if this growth is continuous, then this will have
a strong adverse effect on the life and health of the human being.
Since then it has become normal among most of the scientists and experts to claim that the Club of Rome’s
drawn up reports and prognoses have proven themselves to be wrong, and they attempt to bring the
group’s members into disrepute by labelling them as mad prophets of doom and gloom as well as enemies
of progress and the economy and to let them be recorded in the annals of history as such. To all appear-ances,
the warning call contained in this controversial report has had the effect of being a bone of con-tention
for the scientific community as well as for politics. Yet how careless and unreasonable were and
are the arguments of all those who reject the theses of those warning of and fighting against the over-population,
without thinking it over enough or simply basing their rejection on learned prejudices and
wrong hypotheses. A very good example of this can be seen in the reaction to the above-mentioned report
on the Limits to Growth: Firstly the economists reacted with indignation because they assumed that a re-duction
of the population would seriously affect the economic growth and that this would result in stag-nation
and standstill regarding the production of goods and technical development. That the Scandina-vian
countries, who have a relatively low population density, boast the highest per capita income is not
taken into consideration, naturally. In addition the assumption was that a limit, i.e. reduction in growth on
the part of the West was to the advantage of the Eastern Bloc. For this reason the creators of the report
were characterised as dangerous revolutionaries and traitors of the West. It was also argued that the
progress concerning technical inventions as well as the invisible and divine-like hand of the economic
market and its natural laws would solve every future problem related to shortage in resources, and so
there generally was no reason to worry about the population growth. Then loud voices also arose in the
Catholic churches which were highly critical of the report, because from their point of view every des-cendent
produced – regardless of how many – as well as all life is according to Christian teaching a gift
and work of God and his providence; and so, human beings have no right to interfere in the divine plans
in order to regulate the increase, respectively decrease of human beings since in the bible it is clearly
written “be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth”.
But there were also strong objections and protests to be heard among the leftists and members of the ´68
generation who ended up pointing out that the ideas advocated in this study would lead to shoring up the
privileges and supremacy of the capitalists and ruling class, because poverty and social differences would
further increase through the reduction of growth. The reaction was no different from governmental levels,
since in the East Bloc countries the prevailing conviction was that the future disasters, which the report
warned of, was only valid for the capitalistic countries, because the greater organisational ability of so-cialistic
systems would make it possible to regulate the ratio between production of goods and populati-on
growth through a central planned economy and state power, so that no destruction of the environment
would take place. Yet the fact that in these East Bloc countries just the opposite was the case – the worst
ecological catastrophes occurred there during the days of the Soviet Union –, became visible in the
following years, particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 7à´ŠThese examples show that every party, every social group and class as well as every country and govern-ment
pushed and pushes the responsibility for a reduction in the population growth on someone else:
those in the north on those in the south, those in the east on those in the west and vice versa. In the end
every one washes their hands of being responsible and thinks that this far-reaching terrestrial plague al-ways
concerns only others and therefore the duty to fight against it belongs to someone else. The situati-on
today is also not very different even though the cold war is over and the so-called globalisation has,
through immigration and the Asian economic boom, increased all problems relating to the over-population.
There is no ascertainable readiness and ability among those opposing globalisation to look
at the reality and see it as it really is in order to thoroughly get to the bottom of all troubles on Earth. In-stead
they only want to fight its outer symptoms and not the true, deep cause. However, in the eyes of the
true observers and researchers of reality, the close correlation between the strong population growth on
the one hand, and wars, conflicts, terror, anarchies, massacres, genocides, and revolutions etc. occurring
within individual countries and on a global level on the other hand, is more and more obvious (which of
course does not mean that the overpopulation is the sole cause of conflicts, wars, etc.), as it also is quite
clearly spelled out in the research results of the German genocide researcher and demographer Gunnar
Heinsohn. He has, based on longstanding historical and contemporary analysis and comparisons, come
to the conclusion that, in countries with an excess of young people or a strong increase of young males –
so that the number of children and young persons make up 30% of the entire population – the outbreak
of ethnic conflicts, wars, civil wars, terrorism, and genocides occurs considerably more often and that the
probability of such outbreaks is considerably higher when compared to societies and countries where the
share of the older population is much greater; because when a country brings a large and growing
number of young males into the world, who then live in a condition of unemployment, no future prospects
and social impoverishment – mainly brought about through the disproportionate number of young males
and the connected overpopulation – then they feel increasingly frustrated and discontented which is why
aggression and eruptions of violence of all kinds are pre-programmed.
There are also scientists who have directed their attention on the additional relationships concerning the
negative effects of the overpopulation, like for example the well-known animal behaviour researcher
Konrad Lorenz, who has researched in his book ‹Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins› the correlation
between overpopulation, impoverished feelings or cold feelings and general loneliness and anonymity,
particularly of human beings living in cities. According to his knowledge the excessive and unnatural
accumulation of human beings in a certain area increases the potential of aggression and leads to the
condition where one must protect himself from his fellow-human being because he is perceived as a
potential danger and threat so that one is inclined to withdraw more and more into one’s own private
sphere and to avoid if possible other human relationships outside the circle of one’s own family and
friends. Lorenz was also of the opinion that these deadly sins, i.e. the main problems of our civilisation,
are rooted in the overpopulation and therefore must not be examined separately, but in their totality and
interaction, because they are all interconnected. Lorenz’s above-mentioned main problems of our time are
as follows:
1. Overpopulation.
2. Devastation of the inner and outer natural living space.
3. Embittered competition among human beings, which makes them blind and indifferent to the true inner
values.
4. Cold feelings and the general softness of the human being.
5. Decline in the genetic factors.
6. Disappearance of traditions and the emergence of conflicts and the division between generations.
7. The increasing readiness of human beings to be indoctrinated, brainwashed and told what to do
through political-ideological propaganda, advertising and media-influence.
8. Nuclear arms race.
FIGU Offener Brief Nr. 1, Mai 2007 8à´ŠThe biologist Ernst Mayr pointed out that in the face of the obvious reality of the overpopulation the human
beings of Earth should develop a new environmental ethic, i.e. an environmentally compatible way of
dealing with planet Earth, which places the prevention and circumvention of its pathological tendency to
reproduce in the foreground, and takes into account that the overpopulation represents for mankind the
greatest danger, and its reduction therefore the greatest challenge. He even went so far as to rightly claim
that the work of those philosophers and representatives of religious ideologies who encourage and urge
women to give birth to as many children as possible, is nothing short of a crime against humanity and
shows that such individuals lack any real human ethic i.e. humaneness, because it should enable the
human being to pass on the consequences of his actions and decisions to the whole of mankind and Earth.
All those who support the overpopulation, bear, in his opinion, the responsibility for all the uncountable
human beings who are victims of death and misery, because the overpopulation itself is the cause. Those
are indeed very brave words which agree with reality.
An additional fact to mention which is connected with the uncountable bad effects of the ever faster ticking
demographic time bomb, is the direct and indirect relationship between the population growth and the
greenhouse effect, whereby a too high amount of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere through
the insane number of human beings and their corresponding works, activities, and means of transporta-tion.
Through the work of the scientists Norman D. Newell and Leslie Marcus, who analysed the time
period between 1958 and 1983, it could be proven that the constant increase of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere runs exactly in parallel with the increase in world population. They even claimed that both
factors are so closely interrelated that it is possible to calculate quite accurately the world’s population
through measuring the quantity of atmospheric carbon dioxide. One also now knows from Plejaren sour-ces
that even the ordinary breathing of several milliard/billion Earth human beings as well as uncount-able
pets are significant contributors to the greenhouse effect.
A further tendency concerning the question of overpopulation, which by accurate observation is clearly
revealed, is that when there is an admission of this problem then it is usually only applied to the third world
and developing countries, because the claim is that western countries suffer from a serious decline in
population. However, the fact that countries like Italy, Germany, Japan as well as all of Europe and the
USA are extremely overpopulated is often not taken into consideration, because the calculation of the
natural population limit of a country is not based on its total acreage of fertile land and that one square
kilometre of fertile ground can plentifully/abundantly nourish at the most 12 people. That basically should
be a simple point to comprehend. Because just like a ship has a fixed carrying capacity, which may not
be exceeded because it would otherwise sink, the ship Earth also has a limit to its carrying capacity of
human beings which may not be exceeded on account of the limited total fertile land on its surface if one
does not want to destroy it.
In the end it must also be mentioned that one cannot exclude that the urge to reproduce uncontrolled and
unnaturally is, in many human beings, so deeply imprinted in the collective subconsciousness as well as
in the individual subconsciousness’ forms of many human beings as an acquired, instinctive and geneti-cally
transferable behavioural pattern, that they are no longer conscious of this faulty reproduction
program because it keeps being activated as if it was a healthy, species-preserving instinct. Yet this should
not obscure the fact that each human being is a being who is self-aware and as such has the possibility
to think about his instinctive urges, to become conscious of them and then to control them.
