A threat to the 1%? Are the attacks on the Pope Coordinated?

[MisterP]

94. well, if you want to dig into natalism it's an extremely broad issue

this was a vocal and prevalent view, left, right, and center; it was the unquestioned lefty position that "it's not the demand, it's the distribution" (not that that helped the Ethiopians or Tanzanians ...); Nehru, Mao, Nkrumah, Ceaușescu, Alfred Sauvy, the Tibetans all agreed that the Pill was a Rockefeller/Kissinger plot to cripple the Third World by depriving it of human resources, bypassing real issues, and preventing revolution from breaking out--after all, Belgium and Hong Kong had huge densities, and they did great!

the Salvadoran students' union called it "preemptive genocide" by reducing the number of the poor and Honduras's Communist Youth were the ones beating up any doctor who talked about contraception on the National University's campus and cancelling even demographics from the curriculum ("We've convinced them that to carry out such a program is to act against the nation. ... The Medical School will never allow a plan of North American penetration to be carried out in its name!&quot ; Salvadoran editors (pre-Humanæ Vitæ) opined that Central America "should think of birth control only after it has twice the population of England or France. At one point he speaks of Central America's resources being sufficient for a population ten times its present size" and the Hondurans' belief 1970 was " If we would have had more people, El Salvador would not have dared to invade us": 75% of intelligentsia and 60% of students in Honduras thought that a doubled population was needed to end poverty; Planned Parenthood's job was seen as "assuring the domination of western civilization" by keeping foreigners in control of the Third World: the First World feared "that their prestige and power positions might be threatened if our countries grow too fast"; one French-educated atheist in El Salvador(?) said that "A situation now favorable to the U.S. will no longer be so once Latin America triples its present population," and leftists were likelier to oppose family planning if irreligious (39% right pro-planning vs. 29% left): 24% of the right denied that growth increased poverty, as opposed to 50% of the far left (Axel Mundigo); in the 80s it was the decidedly un-religious (but very male-dominated) human-rights orgs opposing legalizing abortion way more than the Archdiocese in the newspapers

by the mid-80s the most religiously and ideologically devout countries were acknowledging that demographic explosion was a disaster--and also that it was caused by "deformed" economic development rather than just being a blind force of nature, and that it was "articulated" rather than automatically causing war if it tipped past 2.66667%; by the mid-80s, OTOH, the Right Livelihood Award was still being used to say "nothing's going on here"--after all, "Man is born with his own capacity to produce his food"