30 Population Control Quotes That Show That The Elite Truly Believe That Humans Are A Plague Upon The Earth
By
Michael Snyder
The Truth
January 24, 2013
There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation
is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is
facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it.
They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that
we will literally destroy the planet if we are left to our own devices.
To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic
problems can be directly traced back to the lack of population control.
They warn that if nothing is done about the exploding population, we
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 abortion for babies
that are “not wanted” because they would be “too much of a burden” on
society.
Anything that reduces the human population in any way is a good thing
for those that believe in this philosophy. This twisted philosophy is
being promoted in our movies, in our television shows, in our music, in
countless books, on many of the most prominent websites in the world,
and it is being taught at nearly all of the most important colleges and
universities on the planet.
The people promoting this philosophy have very, very deep pockets,
and they are actually convinced that they are helping to “save the
world” by trying to reduce the size of the human population.
In fact, many of them are entirely convinced that we are in a “life
or death” struggle for the fate of the planet, and that if humanity does
not willingly choose to embrace population control soon, then a
solution will have to be “forced” upon them.
Yes, I know that all of this may sound like something out of a
science fiction novel. But there are a whole lot of people out there
that are absolutely obsessed with this stuff, and many of them are in
very prominent positions around the globe.
The following are 30 population control quotes which show that the
elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that a
great culling is necessary…
1. 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”
2. Paul Ehrlich,
a former science adviser to president George W. Bush and the author of
“The Population Bomb”: “To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the
scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to
keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is
obvious but too much neglected or denied”
3. Paul Ehrlich again,
this time on the size of families: “Nobody, in my view, has the right
to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins”
4. Dave Foreman, the co-founder of Earth First: “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”
5. CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
6. Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso about
medical patients with serious illnesses: “You cannot sleep well when
you think it’s all paid by the government. This won’t be solved unless
you let them hurry up and die.”
7. David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”
8. 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.”
9. 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.”
10. 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.”
11. 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.”
12. 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.
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13. Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka:
“I do not bear any ill will toward people. However, I am convinced that
the world, including all humanity, WOULD clearly be much better off
without so many of us.”
14. Detroit News Columnist Nolan Finley:
“Since the national attention is on birth control, here’s my idea: If
we want to fight poverty, reduce violent crime and bring down our
embarrassing drop-out rate, we should swap contraceptives for fluoride
in Michigan’s drinking water.
We’ve got a baby problem in Michigan. Too many babies are born to
immature parents who don’t have the skills to raise them, too many are
delivered by poor women who can’t afford them, and too many are fathered
by sorry layabouts who spread their seed like dandelions and then
wander away from the consequences.”
15. 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.”
16. 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.”
17. 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.”
18. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class”
19. 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.”
20. Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
21. 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.”
22. 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.”
23. 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.”
24. Barack Obama’s primary science adviser,
John P. 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.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be
implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens
additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule
could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official
permission, for a limited number of births.”
25. 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.”
26. 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…”
27. 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.”
28. 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.”
29. 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”
30. 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.”
There is so much more that could be said about all of this.
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