Welcome, this is James Corbett of Corbettreport.com, with the last word on overpopulation.

As human beings, we are hardwired to be constantly on the lookout for potential dangers.

This is to be expected. constantly on the lookout for potential dangers.

This is to be expected.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors

had to be ever vigilant to the threat of natural predators,

contagious disease, and inglement weather,

or suffer the consequences.

Today we have largely overcome many of the natural dangers which plagued our forebears, but the same

instincts compel us to guard against threats both real and imagined, and heed the call of those who raise the alarm

of potential new threats.

This concept has been well understood for thousands of years by those who have sought to

control populations.

Before the modern understanding of our solar system had been articulated,

the ancient Egyptians believed that the sun itself was a god named Ra, who was devoured every evening by an evil snake god named Apep.

It was by no means assured that Ra would be able to escape Apep to return in the morning,

and the priest class manipulated this basic fear by developing

elaborate rights for warning off the snake god.

These rights, of course, could only be properly administered by the priests themselves,

thus assuring them a central role in ancient Egyptian society.

We may laugh at the gullibility of the ancient Egyptians, but for them the existence of Apepe and the importance

of the rituals were instilled from an early age and

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