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world’s most grossly overpopulated countries. To this day, China struggles with its burgeoningnumbers, despite having a one-child policy since 1978.I have been to these places and have seen the situation with my own eyes. When I lived in Chinain 2004 and in Thailand in 1996, I had to take a nap every afternoon because the pollution was sothick that I felt exhausted by midday. In Shanghai my eyes burned all the time and I had a peskycough that I could not get rid of. My body struggled to cope with the filthy air.One dares not think what the situation would have been like today had the one-child-policy notprevented the birth of 400 million Chinese. Just as one dares not countenance India’sdesperation had the government not surgically sterilized 80% of the women by hook or by crook.Or to what violence westerners would have resorted had our governments not interfered with ourability to procreate by covert chemical and biological methods.But while the Indian and the Chinese people are fully aware of their countries’ populationcontrol efforts, westerners, who consider themselves to be the most “advanced” people on earth,are utterly ignorant that they have been physiologically altered, denuded and enfeebled by theirown freely elected governments and that this has been going on since the early 1950s.Coming out of the illusion will not be easy.These thoughts were going through my head as I walked for hours looking for a shampoo that Ihave come to like but did not find. And as these threads tugged at my heart, and I had just turneda corner and found myself facing the high walls of the Vatican City, I could scarce contain mytears of compassion for our human condition. And I understood also the plight of the Church,which for the past 2000 years has been the final sanctuary for the broken and the ill and thedesperate and the lonely and the demented and the forgotten and the abandoned; only to find thatthe misery never ends, and the more the dedicated men and women of all faiths have tried to healthe world, the sicker it got.Those in high places have contended with these problems since times immemorial, but it was notuntil 1945 that a decision was made to break the cycle of poverty that leads to misery and endsup in war. And since that year, policy makers and clergymen and military high brass andscientists and doctors and jurists have worked hand in glove to attack the problems of humanityat their core.The reason I was able to uncover their methods and means is because I struggled to find ananswer to the misery of the human condition from the solitude of my prison cell. And I arrivedat the same conclusion as they did, namely that people outgrow resources and, as such, if youcontrol the number of people you can prevent scarcity and thus pre-empt conflict. And so theydeclared war on human fertility so that man would never again have to fight man.They have done the best they could without our help and behind our backs.155