Here is language from a Prophet of God on the matter. Thanks, Heather from Awaken for putting this together. You are the meme queen:
"All my life I have heard the argument that the earth is overpopulated. Much controversy surrounded a 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt. No doubt the conference accomplished much that was worthwhile. But at the very center of the debate was the socially acceptable phrase "sustainable growth." This concept is becoming increasingly popular. How cleverly Satan masked his evil designs with that phrase.
Few voices in the developed nations cry out in the wilderness against this coined phrase, "sustainable growth." In Forbes magazine a thoughtful editorial asserts that people are an asset, not a liability. It forthrightly declares as preposterous the broadly accepted premise that curbing population growth is essential for economic development. This editorial then states convincingly, "Free people don't 'exhaust' resources. They create them."
An article in U.S. News & World Report entitled "10 Billion for Dinner, Please" states that the earth is capable of producing food for a population of at least eighty billion, eight times the ten billion expected to inhabit the earth by the year 2050. One study estimates that with improved scientific methods the earth could feed as many as one thousand billion people. Those who argue for sustainable growth lack vision and faith. The Lord said, "For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare." That settles the issue for me. It should settle the issue for all of us. The Lord has spoken. (James E. Faust: "Serving the Lord and Resisting the Devil," Ensign, Sept. 1995, 4-5)
I really doubt the world is overpopulated...
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you could fit the ENTIRE population of China into Texas.
Any thing the Gads and Lucifer can do to gain control over people, feel a false sense of power, and destroy the principle of families and marriage they will do.
ReplyDeleteInteresting times to be sure. I have a business partner who in not LDS. He thinks he is being loving by hoping that people will not bring children into this evil and degenerate world. At least he pauses and thinks a bit when I counter that the way to counter the evil is for good people to have children and raise them to be good people and eventually, in a sense, to out breed the enemy. With a a strong minority of good Christians the tide can be turned and a righteous people will be able to help prepare the earth for the return of the Savior and all that come with that.
and lawyers and politicians.
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