On the 40th anniversary of the first world climate conference in 1979, the journal Bioscience published the ominously titled "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency." "Scientists," the Warning begins, "Have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to 'tell it like it is.' On the basis of this obligationwe declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency." Addressing this emergency, the Warning continued, will require a stunning prescription: "The world population must be stabilized-and, ideally, gradually reduced."
What do the 11,000 suggest? Quickly implementing "Massive energy efficiency and conservation practices," "Eating mostly plant-based foods," creating a "Carbon-free economy,"and "Reducing population," among other things, all with the goal of bringing about "Major transformations in the way our global society functions."
"There is no more important object of deliberate state policy," Keynes wrote in 1924, "Than to secure a balanced budget of population." Indeed, Keynes prescribed population control as a "Solution" to the underlying political causes of World War I, to the Soviet Union's food and political crises, and even to the economic malaise of interwar Germany.
In a heretofore unpublished speech given before the Malthusian League in London in 1927, Keynes contended that a proper population policy must not only achieve population stability but continue to maintain and cultivate a population of a certain character after the growth pattern had been reversed.
"Within our own lifetime," Keynes predicted, "The population of will cease to increase and will probably diminish." Following Malthusian logic to its end, Keynes thought this both good and necessary, even if the nations of the earth "Are now faced with a greater problem, which will take centuries to solve." The solution? Keynes concluded, "I believe that for the future the problem of population will emerge in the much greater problem of heredity and Eugenics." As a scribbled line on his notes further acknowledged, "Quality must become the preoccupation."
What we needed to address the Malthusian catastrophe, according to Keynes, was a smaller and "Better" population, cultivated by "The powerful weapon of the preventive check" and administered through a state-directed population policy.
A candidate for the presidency of the United States thinks it is absurd that the American people should be cautious in inflicting schemes of population control on impoverished nations.
https://www.aier.org/article/how-many-people-must-die-to-fix-the-planet/
What do the 11,000 suggest? Quickly implementing "Massive energy efficiency and conservation practices," "Eating mostly plant-based foods," creating a "Carbon-free economy,"and "Reducing population," among other things, all with the goal of bringing about "Major transformations in the way our global society functions."
"There is no more important object of deliberate state policy," Keynes wrote in 1924, "Than to secure a balanced budget of population." Indeed, Keynes prescribed population control as a "Solution" to the underlying political causes of World War I, to the Soviet Union's food and political crises, and even to the economic malaise of interwar Germany.
In a heretofore unpublished speech given before the Malthusian League in London in 1927, Keynes contended that a proper population policy must not only achieve population stability but continue to maintain and cultivate a population of a certain character after the growth pattern had been reversed.
"Within our own lifetime," Keynes predicted, "The population of will cease to increase and will probably diminish." Following Malthusian logic to its end, Keynes thought this both good and necessary, even if the nations of the earth "Are now faced with a greater problem, which will take centuries to solve." The solution? Keynes concluded, "I believe that for the future the problem of population will emerge in the much greater problem of heredity and Eugenics." As a scribbled line on his notes further acknowledged, "Quality must become the preoccupation."
What we needed to address the Malthusian catastrophe, according to Keynes, was a smaller and "Better" population, cultivated by "The powerful weapon of the preventive check" and administered through a state-directed population policy.
A candidate for the presidency of the United States thinks it is absurd that the American people should be cautious in inflicting schemes of population control on impoverished nations.
https://www.aier.org/article/how-many-people-must-die-to-fix-the-planet/
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