By Tyler Durden via zerohedge
Written by Michael Snyder about the blog “The End Of The American Dream”,
There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the root cause of the major problems facing our world today.
Many of them firmly believe that humans are literally a “plague” on Earth and that extreme measures are needed to prevent us from destroying the entire planet.
For the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be traced directly to a lack of population control. They warn that if nothing is done about our exploding population, humanity will face a future of poverty, war, and suffering on a dirty, desolate planet. They complain that it “costs too much” to keep elderly patients who are terminally ill alive, and they eagerly promote “family planning” in developing countries as a means of combating population growth. Of course, for those who believe in this philosophy, just about anything that reduces the human population in any way is a positive thing. This very twisted philosophy is promoted in our movies, in our TV shows, in our music, in countless books, on many of our most famous websites, and taught in the best colleges and universities around the world. The people who promote this philosophy have very, very deep pockets and are actually convinced that by controlling the growth of the human population, they are helping to “save the world”.
In fact, many of them believe that they are in a “life-and-death” battle for the fate of the planet.
The world’s population is currently just over 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 over the next few decades, peaking at about 10.3 billion in the 2080s. This is a big change from the decade before, according to a new report by the United Nations on Thursday.
From Charles Darwin to the present day, we have been constantly warned of what would happen if nothing was done to reduce population growth.
Of course, the dire consequences we were warned about never happened.
But that hasn’t stopped the elite from issuing more and more warnings.
Below are 47 shocking population control quotes from the global elite that will spoil your appetite…
Charles Darwin: “At a later date, which is not very far away in centuries, the civilized races of men will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, as Professor Schaaffhausen has noted, the humanoid apes will undoubtedly be exterminated. The break will then be greater, for it will be between a man in a hopefully more civilized state than the Caucasian and an ape as low as a baboon, rather than between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla, as is the case at present.”
Bill Gates: “The problem is that the population is growing fastest where people are less able to cope. As a result, the population of the poorest areas will triple by 2050. (…) And we have to make sure now that we help with the right means so that they don’t end up in an impossible situation later.”
John D. Rockefeller: “The population problem must be recognized by the government as a major element of long-term planning.”
David Rockefeller: “The negative effects of population growth on all ecosystems of our planet are becoming increasingly obvious.”
Founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger: ‘All of our problems are the result of overpopulation in the working class.’
6. CNN founder Ted Turner: ‘A total population of 250 to 300 million people, a 95% decrease from current levels, would be ideal.’
HBO personality Bill Maher: “I’m for abortion, I’m for euthanasia, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for anything that gets the highway moving — I’m for that. It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we have to promote death.”
8. British television presenter Sir David Attenborough: “We are a plague on earth. This is going to fall on our feet in the next 50 years or so. It’s not just about climate change, it’s about pure space, about places where we can grow food for this huge horde. Either we limit our population growth or nature will do it for us, and nature is already doing it for us.”
9. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “The greatest challenge for our species is the reproduction of our species itself… It is time for us to have an adult discussion about the optimal number of people in this country and on this planet … All the evidence shows that we can help reduce population growth and poverty in the world by promoting literacy and women’s emancipation and providing access to contraception.”
Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First: “My three main goals would be to reduce the world’s population to about 100 million people, destroy industrial infrastructure, and see wilderness return with its complete biodiversity around the world.”
Paul Ehrlich, former science adviser to President George W. Bush and author of ‘The Population Bomb’: “Solving the population problem will not solve the problems of racism, sexism, religious intolerance, war and great economic inequality. But if you don’t solve the population problem, you won’t solve any of these problems. Whatever problem interests you, you will not solve it if you do not solve the population problem as well.”
Richard Branson: “The truth is: The earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, not to mention homes, roads, hospitals and schools.”
13. Environmental activist Roger Martin: “On a limited planet, the optimal population that provides the best quality of life for everyone is clearly much smaller than the maximum that allows for mere survival. The more we are, the less we have; fewer people mean a better life.”
14. Al Gore: “One way to do something about it is to change the technologies to cause less of this pollution and to stabilize the population. One of the most important ways to achieve this is to empower and educate girls and women. There needs to be a ubiquitous availability of fertility management so that women can choose how many children they want to have and at what intervals … You have to train girls and empower women. And that’s the most powerful lever, and when that happens, the population starts to stabilize and societies start to make better and more balanced decisions.”
15. MIT Professor Penny Chisholm: “The real trick is to let birth rates in the developing world fall as quickly as possible in order to stabilize the population at a level lower than 9 billion. And that will determine the level at which humanity will settle on Earth.”
Julia Whitty, columnist at Mother Jones: “The only known solution to ecological overload is to slow our population growth faster than we do now and eventually reverse it – at the same time, we slow down the rate at which we consume the planet’s resources and eventually reverse it. If we succeed in these two endeavors, we will solve our most pressing global problems: climate change, food shortages, water supply, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, and even war. On one front, we have already made unprecedented progress, reducing global fertility from an average of 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today – a feat based on trial and sometimes brutal coercion, but also on the individual choices of one woman at a time. The speed of this birth rate revolution, which is fighting hard against biological programming, is perhaps our greatest collective achievement to date.”
Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in an essay titled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy”: “Stopping human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to prevent catastrophic global climate change. In fact, a significant reduction in the current population may be necessary to achieve this.”
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’m worried about her. Humans have overpopulated the earth, creating an ideal breeding ground for bacteria and viruses (microbes) to grow and thrive. We behave like bacteria that grow and thrive on an agar plate until natural limits are reached, or until another microbe colonizes and takes over and uses it as a resource. In addition to our extremely high population density, we are social and mobile, the very conditions that favor the growth and spread of pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes. I believe it is only a matter of time before microbes take back control of our population, as we are not ready to control them ourselves. This idea has been advocated by ecologists for at least four decades and is nothing new. People just don’t want to hear it.”
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006: “The idea that population growth guarantees a better life – financial or otherwise – is a myth that only those who sell diapers, strollers and the like can believe.”
20. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UN Under-Secretary-General from 2000 to 2010: “We can only overcome the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation if we address population and reproductive health issues.”
21. Bill Nye: “In 1750, there were about a billion people in the world. Today, well over seven billion people live in the world. The number has more than doubled in my lifetime. All these people who are trying to live like we do in the developed world are polluting the atmosphere with much more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than they did a few centuries ago. It’s the speed at which things are changing that will be problematic for so many large populations around the world.”
22. Actress Cameron Diaz: “I think women are afraid to say they don’t want children because they’ll be shunned. But I think that is also changing now. I have more friends who don’t have children than those who do. And, to be honest? We don’t need any more children. There are already enough people on this planet.”
23. Democratic strategist Steven Rattner: “WE need death committees. Well, maybe not necessarily death committees, but if we don’t start allocating health care resources more wisely — rationing, as it’s actually called — the skyrocketing cost of Medicare will flood the federal budget.”
Matthew Yglesias, business and economics correspondent for Slate, in an article titled ‘The Case for Death Panels, in One Chart’: “But not only is this health care spending for the elderly the central issue in the federal budget, our disproportionate allocation of health care funds to the elderly is certainly also responsible for the remarkable lack of cost-effectiveness of the American health care system. If the patient is already over 80, it is a simple fact that no treatment can do wonders in terms of life expectancy or quality of life.”
25. Stephen Hawking: “Over the past 200 years, the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9 percent per year. If it continued at this rate, with a doubling of the population every 40 years, we would all literally be standing shoulder to shoulder in the year 2600.”
26. Gloria Steinem: “Not every woman with a uterus has to have a child, just as not everyone who has vocal cords has to be an opera singer.”
Jane Goodall: “Our population growth is the cause of just about every single problem we put on our planet. If we were few, then the bad things we do wouldn’t really matter and Mother Nature would take care of them – but we are so many.”
U.S. Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Frankly, I thought there were concerns about population growth at the time of the Roe ruling, especially the growth of populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
29. Founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger: “The most merciful thing the extended family does to one of their infants is to kill him.”
30. Salon columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams in an article titled “So what if abortion ends life?”: “Not all life is created equal. It’s difficult for liberals like me to talk about it, lest we end up like Death Column-loving stormtroopers killing their grandmother and beloved baby. However, a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it is located.”
31. Paul Ehrlich: “Basically, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a ‘birth rate’ solution, where we find ways to reduce the birth rate. The other is a ‘death rate solution’, where we find ways to increase the death rate – war, famine, epidemics.”
32. Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Francesca Minerva of the University of Melbourne, in an article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, write: “If circumstances arise after childbirth that would have justified abortion, what we call postpartum abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice “abortion after birth” and not “infanticide” to emphasize that the moral status of the killed individual is comparable to that of a fetus… and not with that of a child. Therefore, we claim that the killing of a newborn could be ethically permissible in all circumstances where abortion would be permissible. These circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to live a (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk.”
33. Nina Fedoroff, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton: “We must continue to reduce the growth rate of the world’s population; the planet cannot feed many more people.”
34. Principal Scientific Adviser to Barack Obama, John Holdren: “A program to sterilize women after their second or third child, although the surgery is relatively more difficult than a vasectomy, may be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.”
35. Another quote from John Holdren: “If population control measures are not taken immediately and effectively, all the technology that man can muster will not be able to avert the misery to come.”
36. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club: “Witnessing children [should] be a punishable crime against society unless the parents have a government license … All potential parents [should] be required to use contraceptive chemicals, with the government issuing antidotes to citizens selected to conceive children.”
37. Maurice Strong: “Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or nature will do it for us, but in a brutal way.”
Thomas Ferguson, a former civil servant in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Population Affairs: “Behind all our work is one issue: we need to reduce the population. Either the governments do it our way, with clean methods, or they will get the kind of chaos that we have in El Salvador, Iran or Beirut. The population is a political problem. Once the population is out of control, it will take an authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…”
Mikhail Gorbachev: “We need to talk more clearly about sexuality, contraception, abortion and values that control the population, because the ecological crisis is ultimately a population crisis. If you reduce the population by 90%, there are no longer enough people to cause great ecological damage.”
40. Jacques Costeau: “To stabilize the world’s population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It’s terrible to say that, but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
41. Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola: “If there was a button I could push, I would sacrifice myself without hesitation if it meant millions of people would die.”
42. Author Dan Brown: “Overpopulation is such a serious problem that we all have to ask ourselves what to do.”
43. Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund: “If I am reborn, I want to return as a deadly virus to help solve the problem of overpopulation.”
44. Ashley Judd: “It’s irresponsible to bring children into the world when you know how many children are starving to death in poor countries.”
45. John Guillebaud, Professor of Family Planning at University College London: “The impact on the planet that one less child has is many times greater than all the other things we could do, such as turning off lights. An extra child is equivalent to a lot of flights around the planet.”
Bill Gates: “The world has 6.8 billion people today. This will rise to about nine billion. If we do a really good job on new vaccines, health care and reproductive health services, we could reduce that number by maybe 10 or 15 percent.”
47. Charles Darwin: “In savages, the physically or mentally weak are quickly eliminated; and those that survive tend to be in good health. We civilized people, on the other hand, do our utmost to control the process of selection; we build institutions for the feeble-minded, the crippled and the sick; we introduce poor laws; and our doctors use all their skills to save everyone’s life until the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has saved thousands who would have succumbed to smallpox in the past due to a weak constitution. Thus the weak members of civilized society multiply their species. No one who has dealt with the breeding of pets will doubt that it must be highly harmful to humanity. It is amazing how quickly a lack of or misaligned care leads to the degeneration of a pet breed; but apart from man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to be bred.”