Quote by Club of Rome: "The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man."
Quote by John Davis, editor of Earth First! journal: "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."
Quote by Paul Ehrlich, professor, Stanford University: "A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer."
Quote by John Holdren, President Obama's science czar: "There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
Quote by Christopher Manes, a writer for Earth First! journal: "The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing."
Quote by Ted Turner, billionaire, founder of CNN and major UN donor, and large CO2 producer: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Quote by David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!: “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.”
Quote by David Brower, a founder 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."
Quote by Club of Rome: "...the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million people but less than one billion."Quote by Susan Blakemore, a UK Guardian science journalist: "For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we’re doomed."
Quote by Paul Ehrlich, professor, Stanford University: "The addition of a temporary sterilant to staple food, or to the water supply. With limited distribution of antidote chemicals, perhaps by lottery".
Quote by Prince Philip, royal billionaire, married to Queen Elizabeth II, and large CO2 producer: "I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population."
Quote by Bill Gates, Microsoft billionaire, and large CO2 producer: "The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent."
Quote by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, architect of the new Germanic masterplan, the 'Great Transformation': "When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.”
Quote by Jacques Cousteau, mega-celebrity French scientist: "In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
Quote by UN Commission on Global Biodiversity Assessment: "A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
Quote by John Miller, a NOAA climate scientist: "I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly, we need to do, as a society, in this country and globally, whatever we can to reduce population"....."Our whole economic system is based on growth, and growth of our population, and this economic madness has to end."
Quote by John Davis, editor of Earth First! journal: "I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
Quote by Prince Philip, royal billionaire, married to Queen Elizabeth II, and large CO2 producer: "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
Quote by Ingrid Newkirk, a former PETA President: “The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.”
Quote by Ted Turner, billionaire, founder of CNN and major UN donor, and large CO2 producer: "There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff."
Quote by James Lovelock, known as founder of 'Gaia' concept: "The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil."
Quote by Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff, science advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “There are probably already too many people on the planet.”
Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, mega-millionaire, and large CO2 producer: "Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth..."
Quote by Susan Blakemore, a UK Guardian science journalist: "Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population – weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example."
Quote by David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!: "We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight."
Their consensus in optimum population for the world ranges from zero (elimination of the human species; will they be last?) to 2 to 3 billion with some in the 'I don't know but fewer' category.
Will they volunteer to be first to go extinct??
Somehow, I think they see themselves among the survivors who will lead the rest of us to the promised land. Except perhaps for the more vicious among them such as Ingrid Newkirk. Any volunteers to begin the lowering of unsustainable population levels? Didn't think so. Hence the prayers for terrorists to use the Ebola virus, or Prince Philip to reincarnate as a vicious virus, or Susan Blackmore's bird flu virus....
And what would they think of me if I prayed for their viral destruction in the here and now?
If they believe that current resource use is 'unsustainable' then why not just let the evil capitalist system continue on its way to its natural end in resource depletion and food exhaustion as the population spirals out of control. Then they won't have to make any gut wrenching decisions about the survival of musicians, scientists or politicians.
If they really believe that is where we are going then perhaps the elimination of homo sapiens is 'in the cards' and they just have to wait it out; let nature takes it course; no ethical decisions required on their part. They can plan for their own survival (they are rich after all). There will always be solar and wind power to sustain them when the rest of us have departed for heaven. They don't seem to like coal, oil or gas so when the rest of us use it all up it won't matter to them. Oh yeah, except for the perceived non-problem of global warming. They think something needs to be done about AGW now to lower population so that they will have a world to live in. And they need world domination to do that.
But the theory of AGW is evaporating(evaporation is a cooling process) as can be found here and here and here and here and here and here and here to link a few. Use their connections for further exploration.
Since AGW predictions are falling like meteors those above and others who think like them will be in the unenviable position of witnessing the problem identified by James Lovelock: "The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil." Doing too well is a bad thing??
May that continue long past the time fossil fuels are made irrelevant but another big fear of those like Jeremy Rifkin: "“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” It is my prediction that the complaint of James Lovelock will still be taken up by someone else in the 22nd century because 9 billion people will be 'doing too well economically' and still using 'too much' energy in a 'wasteful' capitalistic system.
I wish that for my grand-kids and yours.
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