Are there really too many people on Earth? Well, as usual the answer is not clear cut. Yes and no.
Authored by Michael Snyder via The End Of The American Dream blog,
There
is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the
primary cause of the most important problems that our world is facing
today.
Many
of them are completely convinced that humans are literally a “plague”
upon the Earth and that extreme measures are required to prevent us from
destroying the entire planet.
To
the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic
problems can be directly traced back to a lack of population control.
They warn that if nothing is done about our exploding population,
humanity will be facing a future full of poverty, war and suffering on a
filthy, desolate planet. They complain that it “costs too much” to
keep elderly patients that are terminally ill alive, and they eagerly
promote “family planning” in developing nations as a way to combat
population growth. Of course just about anything that reduces the human
population in any way is a positive thing for those that believe in
this philosophy. This very twisted philosophy is being promoted in our
movies, in our television shows, in our music, in countless books, on
many of our most prominent websites, and it is being taught at top
colleges and universities all over the world. The people that
are promoting this philosophy have very, very deep pockets, and they are
actually convinced that they are helping to “save the world” by
controlling the growth of the human population.
In fact, many of them truly believe that they are engaged in a “life or death” struggle for the fate of the planet.
The population of the world is currently sitting just above 8 billion, and the UN expects it to peak at 10.3 billion later this century…
The
world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in
the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major
shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United Nations said
Thursday.
From the time of Charles
Darwin all the way to today, we have been relentlessly warned about what
would happen if something was not done to reduce population growth.
Of course the dire consequences that we were warned about have never actually come to fruition.
But that hasn’t stopped the elite from continuing to issue even more warnings.
The following are 47 shocking population control quotes from the global elite that will make you want to lose your lunch…
1. Charles Darwin:
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the
civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace
throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the
anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no
doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it
will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope,
than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at
present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
2. Bill Gates:
“The problem is that the population is growing the fastest where people
are less able to deal with it. So it’s in the very poorest places that
you’re going to have a tripling in population by 2050. (…) And we’ve got
to make sure that we help out with the tools now so that they don’t
have an impossible situation later.”
3. John D. Rockefeller: “The population problem must be recognized by government as a principal element in long-range planning.”
4. David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”
5. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class”
6. CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
7. HBO personality Bill Maher:
“I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m
for whatever gets the freeway moving—that’s what I’m for. . . . It’s
too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death.”
8. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough:
“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next
50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places
to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population
growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is
doing it for us right now”
9. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson:
“The primary challenge facing our species is the reproduction of our
species itself…It is time we had a grown-up discussion about the optimum
quantity of human beings in this country and on this planet…All the
evidence shows that we can help reduce population growth, and world
poverty, by promoting literacy and female emancipation and access to
birth control.”
10. Dave Foreman,
Earth First Co-Founder: “My three main goals would be to reduce human
population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial
infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species,
returning throughout the world.”
11. Paul Ehrlich, a former science adviser
to president George W. Bush and the author of “The Population Bomb”:
“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of
racism… of sexism… of religious intolerance… of war… of gross economic
inequality. But if you don’t solve the population problem, you’re not
going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you’re interested
in, you’re not going to solve it unless you also solve the population
problem.”
12. Richard Branson:
“The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh
water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads,
hospitals and schools.”
13. Environmental activist Roger Martin:
“On a finite planet, the optimum population providing the best quality
of life for all, is clearly much smaller than the maximum, permitting
bare survival. The more we are, the less for each; fewer people mean
better lives.”
14. Al Gore:
“One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies,
to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one
of the principal ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and
women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management
so women can choose how many children to have, the spacing of the
children… You have to educate girls and empower women. And that’s the
most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the
population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better
choices and more balanced choices.”
15. MIT professor Penny Chisholm:
“The real trick is, in terms of trying to level off at someplace lower
than that 9 billion, is to get the birthrates in the developing
countries to drop as fast as we can. And that will determine the level
at which humans will level off on earth.”
16. Julia Whitty,
a columnist for Mother Jones: “The only known solution to ecological
overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it’s
decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and
eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet’s resources.
Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global
issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration,
health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we’ve already
made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average
4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial
and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman
at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing
revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as
perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.”
17. Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in
a paper entitled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy”: “Ending human
population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient)
condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed,
significantly reducing current human numbers may be necessary in order
to do so.”
18. Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka:
“I have two grandchildren and I want them to inherit a stable Earth.
But I fear for them. Humans have overpopulated the Earth and in the
process have created an ideal nutritional substrate on which
bacteria and viruses (microbes) will grow and prosper. We are behaving
like bacteria growing on an agar plate, flourishing until natural limits
are reached or until another microbe colonizes and takes over, using
them as their resource. In addition to our extremely high population
density, we are social and mobile, exactly the conditions that favor
growth and spread of pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes. I believe it
is only a matter of time until microbes once again assert control over
our population, since we are unwilling to control it ourselves. This
idea has been espoused by ecologists for at least four decades and is
nothing new. People just don’t want to hear it.”
19. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997-2006:
“The idea that population growth guarantees a better life — financially
or otherwise — is a myth that only those who sell nappies, prams and
the like have any right to believe.”
20. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UN Under-Secretary-General from 2000-2010:
“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease
and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and
reproductive health.”
21. Bill Nye:
“In 1750, there were about a billion humans in the world. Now, there
are well over seven billion people in the world. It more than doubled in
my lifetime. So all these people trying to live the way we live in the
developed world is filling the atmosphere with a great deal more carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases than existed a couple of centuries
ago. It’s the speed at which it is changing that is going to be
troublesome for so many large populations of humans around the world.”
22. Actress Cameron Diaz:
“I think women are afraid to say that they don’t want children because
they’re going to get shunned. But I think that’s changing too now. I
have more girlfriends who don’t have kids than those that do. And,
honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this
planet.”
23. Democrat strategist Steven Rattner:
“WE need death panels. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but
unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently —
rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will
swamp the federal budget.”
24. Matthew Yglesias,
a business and economics correspondent for Slate, in an article
entitled “The Case for Death Panels, in One Chart”: “But not only is
this health care spending on the elderly the key issue in the federal
budget, our disproportionate allocation of health care dollars to old
people surely accounts for the remarkable lack of apparent cost
effectiveness of the American health care system. When the patient is
already over 80, the simple fact of the matter is that no amount of
treatment is going to work miracles in terms of life expectancy or
quality of life.”
25. Stephen Hawking:
“In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown
exponentially, at a rate of 1.9 per cent per year. If it continued at
this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would
all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.”
26. Gloria Steinem: “Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal chords has to be an opera singer.”
27. Jane Goodall:
“It’s our population growth that underlies just about every single one
of the problems that we’ve inflicted on the planet. If there were just a
few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn’t really matter and
Mother Nature would take care of it — but there are so many of us.”
28. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was
concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations
that we don’t want to have too many of.”
29. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
30. Salon columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams in
an article entitled “So What If Abortion Ends Life?”: “All life is not
equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest
we wind up looking like death-panel-loving,
kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can
be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose
body it resides.”
31. Paul Ehrlich:
“Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the
population problem. One is a ‘birth rate solution,’ in which we find
ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a ‘death rate solution,’ in
which ways to raise the death rate — war, famine, pestilence — find us.”
32. Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne in
a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: “[W]hen
circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified
abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. …
[W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than
‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual
killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a
child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically
permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such
circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have
an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at
risk.”
33. Nina Fedoroff,
a key adviser to Hillary Clinton: “We need to continue to decrease the
growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more
people.”
34. Barack Obama’s primary science adviser, John Holdren:
“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child,
despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than
vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”
35. Another quote from John Holdren:
“If population control measures are not initiated immediately and
effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off
the misery to come.”
36. David Brower,
the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club: “Childbearing [should
be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a
government license … All potential parents [should be] required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens
chosen for childbearing.”
37. Maurice Strong: “Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally.”
38. Thomas Ferguson,
former official in the U.S. State Department Office of Population
Affairs: “There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce
population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean
methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador,
or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once
population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even
fascism, to reduce it…”
39. Mikhail Gorbachev:
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about
abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological
crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90%
and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological
damage.”
40. Jacques Costeau:
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000
people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not
to say it.”
41. Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola: “If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating if it meant millions of people would die”
42. Author Dan Brown: “Overpopulation is an issue so profound that all of us need to ask what should be done.”
43. Prince Phillip,
husband of Queen Elizabeth II and co-founder of the World Wildlife
Fund: “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a
deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
44. Ashley Judd: “It’s unconscionable to breed, with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.”
45. John Guillebaud,
professor of family planning at University College London: “The effect
on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater
than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.
An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.”
46. Bill Gates:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine
billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care,
reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15
percent.”
47. Charles Darwin:
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those
that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised
men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of
elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the
sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost
skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason
to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak
constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak
members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has
attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must
be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want
of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a
domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one
is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”
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