“…these people generally believe that so many children should not be born, because there are already too many in India … Yet the fact is that most people on Earth do not live in a way that uses more than what is available to them. It is we who do this, precisely people like us, here in Sweden.” On the contrary! These are not facts, but widespread delusions, with which schools, religions, movements, politics, media, etc. waste the goodwill and energy of youth on futility. Sweden uses only two-thirds of its own territory’s biocapacity, not more than what is available. By contrast, India overloads its biocapacity threefold, using three times as much as is available. And why? Because since independence in 1947, its population has exploded fourfold.

Good news: the Swedish Post has issued a stamp featuring Greta Thunberg. Bad news: even an educated, well-meaning high school student deeply committed to science and biosphere protection has had delusions and guilt pressed into her head — burdens from which it will be a serious psychological task to free herself and to learn the facts.

“… these people generally believe that so many children should not be born, because there are already too many in India, Africa, and China. Yet the fact is that most people on Earth do not live in a way that uses more than what is available to them. It is we who do this, precisely people like us, here in Sweden. We live as if we had four planets at our disposal, and we are the ones saying there are too many of us.”

(I Am Greta, p. 262)

On the contrary — these are not facts, but widespread delusions, with which schools, religions, movements, politics, media, etc. waste the goodwill and energy of youth on futility.

Sweden uses only two-thirds of its own territory’s biocapacity — not more than what is available.

By contrast, India — nearly one-fifth of humanity — overloads its biocapacity threefold, using three times as much as is available. And why? Because since independence in 1947, its population has exploded nearly fourfold. http://footprintnetwork.org

Why should Swedes or Hungarians live ever more poorly because in other countries women are oppressed, girls are not allowed to study, contraception is banned, and thus population explosions occur? – This is the question the BOCS Civilizational Planning Foundation in Székesfehérvár has been asking for many years. It began supporting the girls’ educational opportunities in India back in 1977.

In 1961, the Earth still had 3.12 global hectares of carrying capacity per capita; today only 1.63 remain (about half), due to those who force reproduction, oppress women, and drive population explosions.

The Swedes do not set a bad example with consumption, but with reproduction (though even this is only a 30% increase in sixty years — one-tenth of India’s explosion).

Hungarians are the best! If everyone lived like Hungarians (who already stopped population growth by 1980), there would be less than half as many people on Earth (!) and by the turn of the millennium we would have already recovered from the global ecological crisis! (Instead, we are drifting toward final destruction.)

July 29 is Earth-Overshrinking Day, not “Overconsumption Day”

It is in the vital interest of the developed world to help hundreds of millions of oppressed women — treated like breeding stock and struggling for liberation — with the kinds of contraceptives that can be hidden from men. This is also in the interest of the poor, and above all of the future generations yet to be born.

It is in your interest, too. Calculate the carbon footprint of your lifestyle, business, or organization with our calculator and offset it: this is how you can help most effectively! Get in touch with us.

Greta is not to blame, but the immature-green movement, which for decades has repeatedly derailed the energies of countless well-meaning young people. This could have been another huge opportunity for wealthy youth to finally be in solidarity (!) and compassionate (!) with the poor majority of their own generation. This is the key to the ecological crisis. The largest adolescent and youth generation in history has hardly any right, knowledge, or means of contraception. Scientifically it is clear: the Earth’s overburdening was caused solely by population explosion.

Gyula I. Simonyi | BOCS Civilizational Planning Foundation