LETTERS Letter explosion
Sir: What I am about to write will be painfully unpopular with the heartbroken, the weepers, the 'do-gooders' and other bands of hope. But it's got to be said and said loudly, emphatically and often. Birth is the problem of the world and not death. The Rwandan crisis is a crisis of birth and overpopulation and I would be most sur- prised if the population thereof had not continued to rise, despite the scale of the killings. They are very fond of fornicating and totally neglectful of contraception or any other form of birth control. But one does not have to go to Rwanda to see the problems created by excessive procreation in Africa.
All the littoral Mediterranean states in the North from Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco et al can trace their aggression to multiplying population. Indeed, to take but one example, Egypt's population increases by a million every eight months. That is to say, assuming it doesn't accelerate, which I vow it will, the population in Egypt will increase by more than the entire popula- tion in Scotland in 36 months. How can Egypt, far less Scotland, accommodate them? There is a fantasy prediction, pro- duced by some bureaucratic waves in the overpopulated offices of the United Nations, that the population of the world will 'flatten out' in the year 2012. Upon what premise is this idiotic prediction based? Is fornication going to go out of fashion? Are the populations of South America, some of whom have a majority under nine years of age, going to suppress erotic instinct or indulge in hitherto unknown care?
The world must learn to understand that inbreeding is rampant and so are men and women from the youngest age. It out- smarts nuclear explosion as a piffling threat. But the tragedy is that politicians, when they alight from their grand limousines in 07 (Rome, Sicily or South America), will not even discuss, far less address, the problem. Because, I suppose, mankind is sentimental about birth and morbid about death God help the planet if they don't mend their ways and address the only real threat to our survival. In the meantime, death in Rwanda is having far less impact than birth.
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