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God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them:<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n After God cleansed the world by Flood, He once again turned to man and wife and repeated what He had commanded at the very beginning to Adam and Eve:<\/p>\n Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. (see also Gen 1:28)<\/span><\/p>\n You read that right:\u00a0fill the earth. <\/em>Twice, God expressed His desire that the earth’s population be abundant; that humans multiply, spread, and populate the entire earth. But according to the world’s billionaires, God made a mistake; He’s bad at math; He didn’t foresee a “population explosion” in the 21st century. The world is now “overpopulated”, they claim, and therefore abortion, contraception, and euthanasia are not only “rights” but increasingly “duties” of every citizen. We are repeatedly told our “carbon footprint” is just too much for Mother Earth to bear and that there are simply too many mouths to feed.\u00a0<\/p>\n Except that’s all a lie. A big fat lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n In truth, the world is neither short on food, nor is it overpopulated at 8 billion people.[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. worldometers.info<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\n\u201cBe fertile and multiply and fill the earth… Be fertile, then, and multiply;<\/strong><\/span>
\nabound on earth and subdue it.”\u00a0
\n<\/strong>(Today’s Mass reading for February 16, 2023<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n