For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare

Zion and Jerusalem, January 22, 2013

To whom it may concern,

For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves.

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 104:17)

And that settles the issue for me and it should settle the issue for all of us, for as President James E. Faust, who as an apostle, prophet, seer and revelators of Jesus Christ in his restored church once said: “The Lord has spoken.”

In a consecrated life filled with trials and tribulation that appalls the soul with a constant strike, as a result of sin and wickedness,  it is a indeed refreshment to read joyous news from afar that cause the soul to bow down in humility and glorify the GOD almighty of heaven and earth for his great and tender mercies.

And today despite the trials of living in the mist of an unkind and perverse generation, both yesterday and today, I am humbled to have discovered in the perplexities of nations, great treasures of knowledge that also cause me or compels me to the extent to commend the leadership of Russia for their latest legislative efforts to curve the perversion of the widespread of homosexuality by enacting laws that prohibit and sanction gay and homosexual propaganda. Which policy is indeed is commendable for the sake of humanity and mankind. And this I do because when I read these and other more gratifying news, as holy scripture echoed in my mind and which says:

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

(New Testament | Luke 16:8)

But today, I also commend the leadership of Red China and their scientific community that study their demographics for signaling to the world that their brutal one child policy may be coming to an end.   And in a swarm of Deseret or working bees, a little honey here and there is better than no honey at all; or that a little progress is better than no progress at all. Neal Armstrong and some of our deceased prophets must be rolling in their graves laughing at us because it appears that the children of this world are wiser that the children of light as Jesus Christ once said. And it is because these countries that once enacted the most hateful policies are reconsidering their agendas and marching forwards rather than in retrogression like a great many of us, including very much Europe or the so called children of light.  Who knows but,  unless we stop walking like blind men at noon time and we wake up to a sense of our awful situation, perhaps, both Russia and China would be the first nations to colonize, govern and populate the moon.  Here are some excerpts from the recent news from China.

In China, signs that one-child policy may be coming to an end

President Hu Jintao conspicuously dropped the phrase "maintain a low birth rate" in a work report to a Communist Party congress in November.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/21/us-china-population-idUSBRE90K0UV20130121

"Those people with two children are those who are better off," said Hu, 32, dropping her six-year-old son off at kindergarten. "The majority of people in my village only have one child."

The policy, implemented since 1980 alongside reforms that have led to rapid economic expansion, is increasingly being seen as an impediment to growth and the harbinger of social problems.

The country's labor force, at about 930 million, will start declining in 2025 at a rate of about 10 million a year, projections show. Meanwhile, China's elderly population will hit 360 million by 2030, from about 200 million in 2013.

"If this goes on, there will be no taxpayers, no workers and no caregivers for the elderly," said Gu Baochang, a demography professor at Renmin University.

China's top statistician, Ma Jiantang, said last Friday that the country should look into "an appropriate and scientific family planning policy" after data showed that the country's working-age population, aged 15 to 59, fell for the first time.

Economists say the policy is also responsible for China's high savings rate. A single child often must take care of two - and four in the case of married couples - retired parents, increasing the likelihood that working adults will save money for their old age rather than spend.

That has delayed the "rebalancing" of Beijing's economy toward more consumption, a step economists believe China needs to take to keep its growth going.

I do not know if you knew, but the devil is more devilish when respectable. These great news must truly be a slap in the face that the Devil in Prada.  And the Komodo Dragon and all their cat minded followers must be very much offended for it was them who have enacted those hateful, devilish and deceptive doctrines of devils such that have form of godliness but deny the power thereof. These are the Social Orwellian Policies or gainsaying propaganda such as “Sustainable Growth,” “Planned Parenthood” "FARE SHARE," "Redestribution of Wealth," "Common Purpose," "Gender Equality" and the Algorecological Looney that promotes “Global Warming” and who deceptively proclaim that the world will come to an end if the leaders of nations do not implement birth control, euthanasia and other sterilization and brutal abortion and industrial or technological growth policies.

 

But since all truth is first, vehemently opposed, ridiculed and finally accepted as self evident, contrary to popular belief, prophesy, unbiased scientific studies, and commons sense in place of reasons, shows that at the very least the earth is able not only that to feed 10 billion, would be practical, but that with research and conscientious technology, it would be possible to sustain 80 billion, perhaps  until the kingdom comes. Here are the stats:

10 Billion for Dinner, please.

With technology and free trade, the Earth can defy the doomsayers--and feed twice as many people

By Stephen Budiansky

Posted 9/4/94

 

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/940912/archive_012059.htm

“As the United Nations conference on population convenes this week in Cairo, it has become a virtual article of faith that the Earth's population is about to surpass the planet's "carrying capacity." Ecological collapse looms; the only hope is an aggressive effort to reduce runaway birthrates. Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute, says the "day of reckoning" has already arrived as soil erodes, aquifers empty, pesticide pollution spreads and range lands are overgrazed. "I personally do not think we are ever going to get close" to a world population of 10 billion, Brown told the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this year. The reason? "Ecosystems are already starting to break down," he says.

Even President Clinton has joined the neo-Malthusian bandwagon; he was riveted by an apocalyptic jeremiad that appeared earlier this year in the Atlantic Monthly. The piece, written by foreign correspondent Robert Kaplan, envisions a world of growing chaos, anarchy, disease and corruption as hungry refugees surge across borders in search of food and nations fight over scarce resources. Humanitarian disasters such as the one in Rwanda are a herald of the new era of resource limits.

But if these apocalyptic prophecies come true, it will not be simply because man has been too fruitful and has been multiplying too fast. True, Rwanda was the most densely populated country in Africa before the current civil war erupted. But its Hutu and Tutsi peoples are battling over tribal hatreds and political power, not resources: Rwanda was about to reap a copious harvest when the killing started.

The real threat. Recent scientific studies confirm that the Earth's basic resources are vastly greater than what are needed to feed even the 10 billion people who are almost certain to inhabit the planet by the middle of the next century. The real threat is not that the Earth will run out of land, topsoil or water but that nations will fail to pursue the economic, trade and research policies that can increase the production of food, limit environmental damage and ensure that resources reach the people who need them. Indeed, embracing the myth of environmental scarcity could ironically prompt the United States and other countries to adopt policies that virtually guarantee that the apocalyptic future that environmentalists foretell really does come true...”

Letter: Feeding 80 billion is possible; even 10 billion would be practical

 

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-feeding-billion-is-possible-even-billion-would-be-practical/article_f9cec728-c627-11df-96cd-001cc4c002e0.html

September 22, 2010 9:00 am

I appreciate the response of Alan Batie to my most recent letter, and am flattered that he would regard it as sufficiently important to merit reply.

He suggests that to feed a human population totaling near 80 billion would be problematic and fraught with the possibility of mishap. In fact, I agree with him.

As should be evident from the title of the article to which I referred in my letter, "10 Billion for Dinner, Please," 10 billion is the figure considered most reasonable to cornucopian populationists, and not 80 billion.

The 80 billion figure was used by a Dr. Paul Waggoner as a thought experiment, for purposes of illustration and to give perspective on what would be possible, though he never suggests that to feed 80 billion people would be practical.

Yet, it would be both possible and practical, according to Waggoner and others, to feed 10 billion, as his report, "How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?" shows.

This may also answer local geoscientist, Dr. Steve Cook's recent question, "We're at 7 billion now; how many can our Earth support?"

Kevin Taylor

Corvallis

 

For this particular answer we have to come and reason with the LORD who was angry with me yesterday.  Come, let us as reason together with the LORD as you see me here doing. Listen to the oracles of GOD both ancient and contemporary, for the LORD has spoken concerning these issues saying ; and it is written that man shall not live by bread alone by every word that comes out of the mouth of GOD.

THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written,

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

(New Testament | Matthew 4:1 - 4)

THEREFORE

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 1:18 - 20)

Trying to Serve the Lord Without Offending the Devil

James E. Faust

“Today many of us are trying to serve two masters: the Lord and our own selfish interests, without offending the devil. The influence of God, our Eternal Father, urges us, pleads with us, and inspires us to follow him. In contrast, the power of Satan urges us to disbelieve and disregard God's commandments.”

http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=407

James E. Faust was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 15 November 1994.

In the October 1987 general conference I made this statement:

“I think we will witness increasing evidence of Satan's power as the kingdom of God grows stronger. I believe Satan's ever-expanding efforts are some proof of the truthfulness of this work. In the future the opposition will be both more subtle and more open. It will be masked in greater sophistication and cunning, but it will also be more blatant. We will need greater spirituality to perceive all of the forms of evil and greater strength to resist it. ["The Great Imitator," Ensign, November 1987, p. 33]

 In the great universities of the world, one does not often choose to speak of the influence of Satan. Perhaps it is not cool to address this subject, but I choose to do so anyway. Someone said in these few words: "I have heard much about the devil. I have read a great deal about the devil. I have even done business with the devil, but it didn't pay." Your generation lives in a day when many things are measured against the standard of social or political correctness. Today I challenge that false doctrine of human behavior. The influence of Satan is becoming more acceptable. Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, "The devil is most devilish when respectable" (Aurora Leigh, book 7). However, as Shakespeare said, "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf" (King Lear, act 3, scene 6, line 20).

It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting too close to evil. Like playing with fire, it is too easy to get burned: "The knowledge of sin tempteth to its commission" (see Joseph F. Smith, GD, p. 373). The only safe course is to keep well distanced from him and from any of his wicked activities or nefarious practices. The mischief of devil worship, sorcery, casting spells, witchcraft, voodooism, black magic, and all other forms of demonism should be avoided like the plague.

I speak next of the present-day challenge to the words of the Lord recorded in Genesis: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Genesis 1:28). All my life I have heard the argument that the earth is over-populated. Much controversy surrounded a recently concluded 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 of September this year, 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. The editorial then states convincingly that "free people don't 'exhaust resources.' They create them" (Forbes, 12 September 1994, p. 25).

An article in U.S. News & World Report entitled "Ten 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 ("Ten Billion for Dinner Please," U.S. News & World Report, 12 September 1994, pp. 57­60). 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" (D&C 104:17). That settles the issue for me. It should settle the issue for all of us. The Lord has spoken.”

For a detailed and more complete understanding of the subjects at hand, please serve yourselves of the cited articles by accessing these news, speech and articles in the adjoined links above.

Third things I humbly and solemnly declare freely as an independent anchor of truth and salvation, and I do it with a single eye for the honor and Glory of God; and I do it as one having authority for your profit, edification and instruction in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Yours truly from an unworthy servant in the hands of Christ

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez