Demography 23: The UN, Depopulation and Climate

This is one more proof that the UN is the springboard of Malthusian eco-socialism and global central planning. This lady is the Exec. Secretary of the UN FCCC, the club of governments to "save the planet." Story from Jews News, April 27, 2915.

For the UN, more people = more energy demand = more CO2 emission = more "man-made" climate change. Therefore, to "fight CC", the planet should have less CO2 emission, less power plants (mostly from fossil fuels), less people. Ang galing ano.

One more reason why the UN should shrink. Its top bureaucracy are becoming explicit eco-socialists.

When the UN IPCC was established in the 80s or earlier, it was meant as an activist body with an implicit goal of expanding governments and the UN -- via more environmental and energy regulations. But unlike before, the UN climate officials were less explicit in their advocacy for eco socialism. Now they are more explicit.

Here in the ASEAN, India, etc., people are optimistic about our "young and big population", more producers and consumers, more entrepreneurs and workers. At the other side of the globe, in one building in NYC, international bureaucrats there are plotting how to shrink Asian and other population. They are thinking of de-industrialization and energy poverty, lower standards of living and lower life expectancy, then global population will decline.

These three stories are from WUWT. 

1. Overpopulation: The Fallacy...

"Global warming and climate change are simply the emotional threats used to confront overpopulation. The problem is the world is not overpopulated.

The insanity of it all is that none of what they think matters because there is no overpopulation, no shortage of resources or any connection between CO2 and climate change. It is a story of science without evidence or at best-concocted evidence from Malthus through the COR to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

(2) Riddley: IPCC and OECD...

"TCOR and later UNEP’s Agenda 21 adopted and expanded the Malthusian idea of overpopulation to all resources making it the central tenet of all their politics and policies. The IPCC was set up to assign the blame of global warming and latterly climate change on human produced CO2 from an industrialized expanding population. They both developed from false assumptions, used manipulated data and science, which they combined into computer models whose projections were, not surprisingly, wrong. The result is the fallacy of global warming due to human CO2 is a subset built on the fallacy of overpopulation."

(3) Opinion: CO2 is the demon because...

"These IPCC and OECD reports are telling us clear as a bell that we cannot ruin the climate with carbon dioxide unless we get a lot more numerous and richer. And they are also telling us that if we get an awful lot richer, we are likely to have invented the technologies to adapt, and to reduce our emissions, so we are then less likely to ruin the planet. Go figure."

The successor to  Malthus negativism is Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Two short articles from Steven Goddard, Real Science.

I think the Earth's resources are infinite -- minerals, fossil fuels like oil and gas, coal, geothermal, etc. The Earth's core keeps regenerating itself, pushing up hot gases and molten rocks upwards, mineralizing otherwise "ordinary" rocks and soil, forever. New islands are created, the whole PH archipelago is a product of volcanic and EQ movements, our lands rose from under the sea. Centuries from now, we'll have the Bentham Rise/Plateau, possibly same size as Luzon. Rising consistently from under the sea. But by then, it can be another country.
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See also:
Demography 19: Top 30 Countries in Population by 2050, August 05, 2013 
Demography 20: Presentation at ILS, DOLE, on Population and Growth, November 19, 2013 
Demography 21: China Overtaking the US' GDP Size in 2014?, May 02, 2014 
Demography 22: Japan's Depopulation and Migration Policy, May 11, 2014 
Climate Tricks 38: Arrest Climate Change Deniers, April 11, 2015

Demography 19: Top 30 Countries in Population by 2050

* Notes: (1) I changed the subject series name from "Population Control" to "Demography" starting this paper. And (2) This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz.

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While many people in the Philippines are alarmed by the country’s big population (no. 12 worldwide) and fast population growth (about 1.8 million people a year, net of death and migration), other countries are getting paranoid with their fast ageing population and slow growth or even negative/depopulation trend in some countries.

Here is one projection of the evolving global demography. By 2050, ranked #9 Russia and #10 Japan in population size this year, will be out of the top 12. The Philippines currently #12 will rise to #10 by 2050. Meanwhile, African countries Congo to rank #12 and Ethiopia to rank #9, and India will overtake China as #1 by 2050.

Figure 1. The World’s 12 Biggest Countries in Population Size, 1950, 2013 and 2050.

Source: The Economist, The world’s population.

It implies that the population of the currently poorer countries is expected to expand fast while the population of the currently rich countries will plateau, if not slowly decline. In the minds of people bent on instituting population control, this scenario looks terrifying to them.

More details here. From one estimate, the worldometers, this year, 10 Asian countries are in the top 20 – China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran and Thailand. Four are from Africa – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egupt and Congo. Three from North and South America – US, Brazil and Mexico, and three from Europe – Russia, Germany and Turkey.

By 2050, there will be nine from Asia (Thailand will be out), six from Africa (Tanzania and Kenya in) three from the Americas and only two from Europe (Germany will be out).

Table 1. Most Populous Countries, 2013 and 2050 Projections

Source: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

In another data, some 10 percent or higher of the total population of Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, will be 80 years or older by 2050. An even higher percentage will be people who are 70 and older. For these countries, they will get more robots, or more humans, to take care of their oldies and economies. From where? From countries with many "unwanted pregnancies" and "surplus/unwanted children", like the Philippines.

Table 2. Percent of Total Population who are 80 years or older, 2013 and 2050.

Source: The Economist, Longevity and Economic Growth

Meanwhile, the National Statistics Office (NSO) estimates that there were about 96 million Filipinos as of mid-2012. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says there were 103 M that year. Perhaps the CIA counts Filipinos working and studying abroad, hence it bloated its data by 7 M.

Table 3. Asian Population as of 2012, CIA data.

Source: http://www.indexmundi.com/map/?r=as.

Rich but low and/or ageing population Asian countries -- Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore -- they will soon be begging for more Filipino workers to help run their economies, from managers, engineers and nurses, bus and train drivers, house helpers and factory workers.

Some people people shake their heads when those "surplus children" are still small because they appear to be “underfed and underclothed.” When those children later become adults, other people will soon be referring to them as drivers, car mechanics, electricians and plumbers, construction workers, yaya for their kids. The better schooled among these children become office workers, while the more entrepreneurial will have carinderias or fishball stalls or driving their own jeepney or taxi, that people patronize.

One test for people who dislike more “unwanted pregnancies” and hence, support government-sponsored population control, is to ask the security guards, janitors, electricians, etc. in their building, how many siblings they have. Most likely they will give answers like 4, 7, 10 or more. In the minds of the population control advocates, some of those children should have never been born because they were "unwanted pregnancies" and "surplus or unwanted children". They dislike if not demonize "surplus children" when these kids are still small. But they cannot function properly in their comfortable offices and buildings if those security guards, electricians, building cleaners, etc. are not around.

People are assets, not liabilities. More people, more assets. The real liabilities – the thieves, murderers, rapists, extortionists, corrupt officials -- government should get them. The bad guys can be everywhere, in poor and rich households, in private and government offices. From most disappointment of the people, in the Philippines or elsewhere, it is directed more to those in the government than in the private sector. It is not wise to keep expanding government.

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See also:
Population Control 15: Debate, Debate, on the RH Bill, December 03, 2012
Population Control 16: RH Bill as HR, Coercion as Choice, December 13, 2012 
Population Control 17: China's Depopulation and RH Law, March 03, 2013 
Population Control 18: Billions of RH Services Even Without an RH law, July 28, 2013