Presumably the coinciding collapse of our pension, health and welfare systems are unrelated anomalies. In time, the government helped us to understand that enlightened self-interest was selfish of us and would, in future, be reserved for other groups and other cultures to exercise exclusively on their own behalf. We have also been informed that it is equally selfish to notice that while some regions produce children at a rate never before possible, the rest of us are compelled to cheerfully carry those kids on our backs. In the race to over populate the planet, the planet is losing. In the intervening years, it has shrunk to six per cent.
Deforestation leads to soil erosion and malarial swamps.
Virtually everyone in the West African interior has some form of malaria. The systems crash scenario predicts that vicious, lawless societies like West Africa and Road-Warrior societies like Somalia will not obligingly disappear in the face of loving UN intervention, but will perversely become ever more common. Discourse is forbidden and we are advised to rejoice in our diversity. The College of the British East India Company sent graduates to the far flung reaches of Empire to gather all manner of data in an effort to comprehend local populations, customs, resources, and of course to further trade. Malthus believed that such immutables were a divinely inspired plan to discourage laziness in Man and considered the lower classes spectacularly irresponsible and improvident.