The Country of Bangladesh is Drowning From Over Population



So called "right to life" anti abortion activist so often claim they are "saving lives." The lives they want to save are not those of people but those of fetuses. They have no interest in saving the lives of people.

I spent several days in Bangladesh several years ago. We have close friends there who were at North Dakota State University. Their daughter was born in Fargo.

Bangladesh was once called "East Pakistan". This came about when Britain withdrew its colonial status with India. There were two areas that were majority Muslim which were given sovereign status as one country, Pakistan. The two areas were far apart and culturally different. Eventually there was a war and the two are now Bangladesh and Pakistan.

While among the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh has been doing many things right. It has improved education and health. But, it made one mistake which is bordering on fatal. It did not control the number of births. Its success in education and health came to clash with its cultural which values many children. This forced people to move into areas close to sea level which have flooded repeatedly and which are expected to flood permanently. 

Recent rains have flooded about 1/3rd of the country and there may be four million people forced out of their homes. 

Bangladesh is a metaphor for the entire globe. Our globe is an island and if we continue to over produce people the story of Bangladesh will be repeated in many places.
 

  


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  1. Ardy BAugust 5, 2020 at 5:06 AM

    Jon,
    I’ve been reading your blog for at least a couple of years and I recall back then someone asked Matt Noah, a scientist and father of seven, to take a guess at what the population of the U. S. would be if seven children were the typical family size for his generation. Maybe the question included his generation and the next. Anyway, I believe he replied that 600 million would be about right. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

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  2. Jon LindgrenAugust 5, 2020 at 7:04 AM

    Ardy B "..600 million...That's a lot of mouths to feed."

    The food is one thing, the environment is another. If this meant there would be three times as many cars how about parking. In cities, each car needs about three paved parking spaces, home, work and shopping. So, multiply our current paved parking spaces by nine. We can't handle the rainfalls with the storm sewer systems we have. And it would all go into rivers that would be the same size. Garbage landfills, three times the size.

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