A previous version of this story misstated the number of Catholics worldwide. There are about 1.2 billion Catholics.

Yes, Pope Francis really is a capitalist. Forget his anticapitalist, anticonsumerism rhetoric. Unless he reverses Catholicism’s outdated and destructive dogma on population control, Francis is destined to help capitalists take absolute control of the global economy .... and do more damage to Planet Earth’s climate than the “poison of consumerism.”

Yes, thanks to Pope Francis and his dogma on population control, marriage and contraception, capitalists have a steady supply of new consumers fueling their growth. And they’ll get far richer as this supply of new consumers grows to 10 billion by 2050.

Why is this so crucial? Because the pope’s failure to reverse the Catholic Church’s historic religious policies on birth control is fueling population growth ... guaranteeing explosive consumer growth for capitalists ... strengthening capitalism.

Will Pope Francis ever change? Unlikely, certainly not in time to save the world from capitalism’s guaranteed self-destructive trajectory. Why? Because Francis is handicapped by his all-male army of more than 200 cardinals, 5,000 bishops and 450,000 priests all committed to celibacy, against artificial birth control, all driven by perpetual population growth policies also essential to economic growth in today’s capitalist economy, while also accelerating climate change disasters that will eventually decimate human civilization, self-destruct the planet, and even destroy their precious capitalism!

Can’t save the world? Well actually there is one way Francis could save the world, if he chose to. He could reverse the Catholic dogma fueling out-of-control global population growth. Yes, that’d ne a start, but not enough. The pope would then have to convince more than his 1.2 billion Catholic faithful. He’d also have to nudge all heads of state, and the world’s seven billion humans, especially young parents making babies, that they’d have cut back their family expectations. But that isn’t going to happen, in time.

Climate disasters? You bet, demographic experts like The Earth Institute’s Jeff Sachs, who warns that by the end of this century the planet not only can’t feed 10 billion, we cannot even feed five billion.

What a dilemma: Parents love babies. Families thrive on children. Capitalists also love babies, but for a different reason. Babies are consumers, fuel businesses, increase revenues, profits, wealth. It’s a simple economic equation, capitalists just see babies as new consumers. It’s all about money, period. Later, those babies grow up. The cycle continues.

Yes, the pope’s created a steady supply of consumers for capitalists

The Industrial Revolution was an era of great economic growth for America. Capitalism took hold in America in 1776 with America’s Revolutionary War and the publication of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations.” And you don’t need to be a Nobel economist to see the parallels between global population growth and the relentless growth of capitalism since 1750.

Global population was only one billion in 1800, doubled from 1.65 billion to 3.5 billion between the Great Depression in 1930 and the Great Society in 1965. Since the ‘60s, we’ve doubled again. Global population recently shot past seven billion. Capitalism rules the world economy. Today most nations are capitalist, and most peoples have their own version of the American Dream.

Get it? Pope Francis really is a capitalist helping other capitalists get richer and richer .... he’s helping the dynamic duo of capitalism and its evil twin consumerism bore deeper into the world’s collective conscience, brainwashing seven billion humans .... his dogma is helping global population steadily increase to 10 billion by 2050 .... he’s avoiding food experts who warn that the world can’t feed 10 billion in a limited world of ever scarcer resources .... and his actions enhance rather than eliminate the “root cause of all the world’s ills.”

Contradictions, confusion, capitalists, all destroying ‘God’s Creation’

With population as the key in the war between capitalism and the climate, Pope Francis is now regularly contradicting himself — on one hand branding all capitalist as sinners destroying “Creation” — and on the other hand, supporting the growth of capitalism by refusing to reverse Catholic dogma on population growth.

Unfortunately, capitalism needs the myth of perpetual growth to thrive ... or the myth of capitalism itself collapses. Because capitalism needs a steady supply of new consumers to grow, lots of them, year after year after year. If this perpetual supply of new consumers ever stopped, IPOs dry up, corporations collapse, depressions occur, GDP growth dies, wealth dies, and capitalism is dead.

So, yes, the pope really is a capitalist and like most capitalists he doesn’t realize the self-contradictory, self-destructive ticking time bomb trapped in his deadly dogma about the population, its economic link to capitalism, demographics and out-of-control consumerism.

Several years ago Mother Jones made it quite clear why no one, not the pope nor heads of state, talks openly about the consequences of economic growth in a capitalist world. In “The Last Taboo,” columnist Julia Whitty’s headline was an eye opener: “What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives, and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? Population.”

And today that includes Pope Francis as a major force driving this “conspiracy of silence” self-destructing the world. Pope Francis even recently confirmed his role in this global conspiracy-of-silence. Families love making babies. And capitalists love the myth of the population-growth equation. And we’re all trapped in this conspiracy of silence with them.

Unfortunately Francis’s population dogma is increasing climate change

Forget global warming. Forget Peak Oil. Forget debt, deficits, defaults. Forget commodities, scarce resource depletion. Forget all other economic, political, military problems. Forget all of them. None of them will matter, if our leaders fail to deal with the world’s out-of-control population bomb. Nothing matters. Nothing.

And yet, at this crucial moment in history, Pope Francis, the reformer, did appear, looking like someone who would take the lead, save the world from self-destructive capitalism. But unfortunately, Francis remains blindly trapped in his ancient dogma.

True, he warned capitalism is “the root cause of all the world’s ills.” True he warned that “consumerism is a poison.” And yes, he’ll soon deliver this message in his historic encyclical on climate change and as the basis of his addresses to the UN General Assembly and to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress later in 2015.

But unfortunately Francis is as ideologically blind about his dogma as Big Oil, the Koch Empire and the GOP are about their dogma. Francis is failing to realize how his Catholic dogma promoting perpetual population growth is in fact the world’s most toxic contributor to deadly climate change .... and if it continues unrestricted it will soon destroy “God’s Creation,” the very thing Pope Francis promised to save.