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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 150
resources.
9. There will be serious problems for some of the poorest LDCs with rapid
population growth. They will increasingly find it difficult to pay for needed raw
materials and energy. Fertilizer, vital for their own agricultural production, will be
difficult to obtain for the next few years. Imports for fuel and other materials will
cause grave problems which could impinge on the U.S., both through the need to
supply greater financial support and in LDC efforts to obtain better terms of trade
through higher prices for exports....
The location of known reserves of higher-grade ores of most minerals
favors increasing dependence of all industrialized regions on imports from less
developed countries. The real problems of mineral supplies lie, not in basic
physical sufficiency, but in the politico-economic issues of access, terms for
exploration and exploitation, and division of the benefits among producers,
consumers, and host country governments....
Whatever may be done to guard against interruptions of supply and to
develop domestic alternatives, the U.S. economy will require large and increasing
amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. That
fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability
of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through
reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy
becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United
States.
495
NSSM 200 concludes that the US government recognized the danger of world population
growth to be of the “highest magnitude calling for urgent measures.” NSSM 200 specifically
states:
Although world population growth is widely recognized within the [US]
Government as a current danger of the highest magnitude calling for urgent
measures, it does not rank high on the agendas of conversations with leaders of
other nations.
Nevertheless, the United States Government and private organizations
give more attention to the subject than any donor countries except, perhaps,
Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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The report notes that there were at the time thirty-one nations with “population growth
control programs” but that for the most part they were poorly funded and supported by those
thirty-one nations.
497
NSSM 200 called for increasing US funding for world population control
from $123.3 million in 1972 to $350 million by 1980.
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In 1994 President Clinton called for
increasing population control funding, which had reached $500 million annually to $1 billion.
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This was only direct funding, the US also funds population control indirectly through the United
Nations and the World Bank.
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