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CAN WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD?

Politicians often call for "millions of new jobs" but rarely push for fewer conceptions. Does politics fail when “universal” prejudices can’t be, as Lincoln said, safely “disregarded?”

Three steps toward a better world!

BEN FRANKLIN ON OVERPOPULATION AND UNDERPOPULATION…

Ben Franklin defines the most important principle for sustaining civilizations...

Ben Franklin warned that overpopulation corrupts and undermines democracy.

This vision-building plate asks, “Did underpopulation affluence Make America Great (for Euro-overpopulation migrants mostly)?” Ben Franklin speaks from his image on a $100 bill, explaining how underpopulation (after natives died of diseases and violence) translated into great riches for early immigrants. Ben speaks these words from his 1755 essay called, Observations on the Increase of Mankind.

What made (mostly European) America great the first time?

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY ON OVERPOPULATION AND UNDERPOPULATION…

Lady Liberty laments in NY Harbor, her head dropped tearfully and her torch falling behind her. She asks, "What do I stand for now? Now that we're conceiving our own "tired...poor...huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of" our own "teeming shore?"

Lady Liberty welcomed millions to an underpopulated paradise after natives died by Guns, Germs, and Steel.

WORSE WEATHER FROM OVERPOPULATION…

Climatastrophe is more a matter of population growth than increased per person energy use!

Climatastrophy from too many?

Overpopulation pollution: From a goldfish bowl, two fish look out on an endless traffic jam and a background full of skyscrapers. Footnotes show that breathing air CO2 worldwide is projected to double by 2060 from 1650. One goldfish worries, “Too many fouls their breathing air in paradise. Who changes their water?”

Overpopulation threatens our future!

PARADISE FROM UNDERPOPULATION…

MAGA: What could Make America Great Again? A turtle finding a MAGA hat comments, "A virgin, people-empty continent of 3.8 million square miles might help?"

Make ALL NATIONS Great Again! (MANGA)

Peaceful town square in the Roman resort town of Pompeii. A volcano labeled "Overpopulation Vesuvius" looms looms, smoking ominously in the background. One Roman comments to another that the mountain “Rumbles constantly but we just ignore it.”

Overpopulation Vesuvius threatens our future!

BORDER-BREAKING OVERPOPULATION…

Overpopulating borders: Immigrants stopped by borders discuss brutal reality. Babies conceived faster than jobs has often driven desperate immigration.

Is border-breaking suffering often caused by overpopulation?

ECONOMICS’ UNFINISHED BUSINESS: OVERPOPULATION

Overpopulation wages: A giant cargo freighter piled high with cargo boxes sales on a blue ocean under blue skies, bearing this message. "More stuff, from labor made cheaper whenever births come faster than good jobs."

Overpopulating labor undermines labor’s future!

Musk dances along his assembly line celebrating more conceptions for cheaper labor and more consumers.

Cheaper labor, bigger market shares, more tithing and more soldiers are all among many reasons why human factions choose population aggression.

Overpopulation corrupts: Cartoon shows too many competing auto service shops. Mechanic comments to a friend, “We become experts at finding something we can charge for! Gets worse when overpopulation corrupts us to survive!”

Too much competition eventually corrupts our better desires.

Huge crowd of overpopulation unemployment waits outside an unemployment office. One voice says, “Babies conceived faster than good jobs threatens life everywhere!” Another responds, “Thanks mom and dad!”

Overpopulation conceives unemployment faster than new jobs!

WE COULD MAINTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS FOREVER, but…

An old-fashioned medicine bottle floats in outer space. Contents spill over our home-planet earth. The bottle is marked, “Overpopulation, the Original Civil Rights Remover.” Footnotes reference chapter 3 titled, “Freedom or slavery, how overpopulation decides” in the book, A Letter to Dear Children: On Our Overpopulation-violence Connection, among others.

Overpopulation always has been the original destroyer of civil rights…

OVERPOPULATION ENABLES, MOTIVATES, & SPARKS RETURN OF SLAVERY.

Planet earth spinning in space has a giant sign sticking up out of the North Pole reading, “END SLAVERY! No babies conceived faster than good jobs!”

Overpopulation enables the return of slavery!

Overpopulation excess: Flamingo Genie from an ancient lamp asks the King of Dahomey, “Why the long face?” The king responds, “Too many people! We need “their” land. We take prisoners. Why kill POWs when selling ‘em as slaves gets us cannons against other overpopulating empires? I want to protect our people… FLAMINGO GENIE! WE NEED A REDO TO AVOID OVERPOPULATION HELL!”

Dahomey’s King explains how too-many-people motivates and sparks slavery. Empires strive to take lands and resources of others. Pows are sold as slaves who would otherwise be killed.

Overpopulation starts slavery. Four slave era empires' signs along the African slave coast advertise POW's for sale. A giant arrow points into the the Atlantic labelled, “About 85% of 15 million came to slavery or death from overpopulation-empire in this way…” Footnotes Henry Louis Gates Youtube video, “Nobody Watches PBS: The Slave Kingdoms Edition” at approx.. 17-18 min.

Competing African empires created a global slave trade by selling enemy POWs for European weapons.

Vision-building plate of slaves dragging an Egyptian petroglyph labelled Exodus 1:9-15. One comments to another, "Babies born faster than life anywhere, threatens quality of life everywhere." Another responds, "Thanks mom and dad."

Bibles report overpopulation as Egyptian emperors’ motive for marginalizing and enslaving Jews.

OVERPOPULATION ENCOURAGES EMPERORS AND EMPIRE…

In this two-image plate, Roman Mark Anthony invites economically desperate people to destroy competing people in exchange for the farms and wealth of those destroyed. In the second image, a voice from a village town hall in 1950’s America comments on the timeless appeal of overpopulation empire. “Souls broken by overpopulation fall for imperial blab. But underpopulation paradise vaccinates only while prosperity lasts!”

Overpopulation encourages and motivates empire. Underpopulation paradise vaccinates against empire.

An aid de camp asks Napoleon (at the head of his army), "What can we do with all these extra people?"

“Emperor, what can we do with all our extra people?”

WE HAD HOPED FOR DETERRENCE…

Genocidal war often starts with some empire-wannabe like Putin, here shown riding a tank into the Ukraine. Chipmunks comment that “Even nukes can’t deter human overpopulation selected, us-versus-them greed from stealing violently from others!” Another responds, “Yay, for life after people!” Footnotes cite Darwin’s Origin of the Species.

Would deterrence through a population-enlightened globe work better?

OVERPOPULATION TRUMPS HALF-TRUTHS…

Overpopulation trumps half-truths! Cartoon of friendly buzzards commenting on crowded cityscape dominated by two bill-board signs. One says, “Capitalism promises better lives through greed!” Another says, “Communism promises better lives through central planning!” One buzzard says, “Half-truths comfort ‘em. Overpopulation trumps half-truths. So, our buzzard futures are as bright as humans’ are not!”

Overpopulation trumps half-truths…

RELIGIONS’ UNFINISHED BUSINESS: OVERPOPULATION…

Distant sage-saint visionary calls an horizon-wide audience to loving strangers as ourselves (Lev. 19:34). Friendly buzzards comment on that challenge, one observing that humans are animals driven by "overpopulation-selected us-versus-them passions." She concludes it would be "Easier to freeze hell."

Does “too-many people” eventually always conflict with religions’ golden-ruled values?”

Overpopulation name-calling. A woman in reform garb comments to her husband in front of their farm. She says, “Unless we can face population truths without others calling us racist, we’ll neither build perfect care—heaven on earth—nor live by loving, golden-ruled, humanitarian values of any faith!”

Does ignoring population truths violate religions’ most-fundamental values?

Overpopulation deniers: In this drawing, a Quaker wife and husband in early reform religious garb talk quietly in front of their farm. In an earlier plate she expressed her concern that “Unless we can face population truths without others calling us racist, we’ll neither build perfect care… nor live by golden-ruled, humanitarian values of any faith!” In this plate he agrees, fearing religious censorship that bars discernment of truth. He worries that this puts us in danger of “becoming what early valiant visionaries feared most.”

Does censoring population truths offend every faiths’ golden rules?

DARWINIAN OVERPOPULATION…

Two great white sharks patrol a sandy reef frightening smaller fish in their path. One comments, “What good are teeth? Without the us against them passions that eons of overpopulation selected into us?” The picture is a metaphor for human overpopulation selected passions that have brought us the capacity to destroy our world.

Overpopulation selects our characteristics including our passions.

Two wolves look down on a valley floor where two other wolf packs group to fight for control of the surrounding countryside. One onlooker comments, "overpopulation selected possessiveness defines survivors. Overpopulation means there's always another test...

Overpopulation selection shapes our possessiveness.

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