People are Essential
The image on the left shows an aquaponics plant growth system that can produce fresh food all year round within any environment found on earth because it is not dependent upon surface growing conditions. The image on the right is related to manufacturing. Together the images above illustrate the fact that mankind are “producers” and they can grow food and manufacture products and develop the resources needed to create wealth upon the earth.
Proverbs 14:28 (NASB95)
28 In a multitude of people is a king’s glory, But in the dearth of people is a prince’s ruin.
The bible teaches that having a multitude of people is a good thing and something that is positive and turns out to be for the king’s glory but a dearth of people equals a prince’s ruination. Therefore, civil leaders must understand this principle because humans are producers. Humans can produce food and they manufacture products and they can develop resources. All wealth on earth is created by humans because humans are made in the image of God and humans are “creators” and have the same creative attributes as God.
See the link “Mix Not Laws” which contains a section about hybrid crops that produce hundreds of times more food that in the past because of genetic engineering. Mankind has the technology to feed the whole world many times over and this food-production technology is expanding continually.
Jordan Peterson speaks about how humans are a net good (totally opposite of what insane liberals say who want to cull the human population by 94% and consider them as “evil-human-consumers” to be culled). Jordan quotes a book by Marian Tupy, who wrote a book called “Super Abundance” and shows that economic calculations reveal that every single human baby born will produce “seven-times” more resources than what they consume during their lifetimes. Jordan points out that there are twice as many people now as when he was born but they are far more wealthy and rich than in the past. Economic calculations support the fact that humans are “producers” and people create wealth so that the human population can increase many times over and every generation can be more wealthy than the one before it. God created a super-abundant earth with vast reserves of new resources being discovered continually. These resources can be developed to create wealth for more humans, regardless of how many times the world population is multiplied. We can create more food with hybrids and fuel and fertilizer, which provides for virtually unlimited population increase.
Below is a quote from Marian Tupy the author of the book “Super Abundance” which shows that people must be free to produce because poverty is caused by corrupt and authoritarian regimes.
“Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued that “The world’s rapidly growing population is consuming the planet’s natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources … [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030.” But is that true?“
“After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something.“
“To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population―a relationship that they call superabundance. On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true.“
“Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living.“
“But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundance―just think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free.“
Humans Created in the Image of God
Genesis 1:26–27 (NASB95)
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God made humans in his own image and according to his own likeness. This is why humans are special and unique above every other living creature. Only humans were created with an eternal spirit and only humans are created in the image of God and only humans are the object of God’s love.
Humans Given Dominion
God gave humans dominion over the entire earth and everything upon it and they were given authority to rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28–30 (NASB95)
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
God created mankind in his own image and in the image of God He created them as both male and female. God placed humans in charge over the earth and they were given the creative power to grow food and manufacture products and develop resources.
Psalm 24:1 (NKJV)
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.
The fullness of the earth belongs to God and the earth was created by God for the sole purpose of providing a habitation for mankind to live upon. The earth has unlimited potential to produce and the resources can be harnessed by utilizing new innovations.
Genesis 8:22 (NASB95)
22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
According to the biblical principles of seedtime and harvest humans can produce many times more food and wealth to meet the needs of people regardless of human population growth.