The Leaves in Winter (59 page)

“There are many ways to make the death rate increase.”

Robert McNamara

Former Secretary of Defense

From
New Solidarity
, March 30, 1981

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

David Rockefeller

Club of Rome Executive Manager

“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.”

Club of
Rome

From Goals for Mankind

“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.”

Christopher Manes

Earth First!

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”

Maurice King

Professor at
Makerere
College
and
Leeds
University

“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.”

Nina Fedoroff

Penn State Professor, Bush appointee to National Science Board, adviser to Hilary Clinton

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”

Daniel Botkin

Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology,

University
of
California

“The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by elite, unrestrained by traditional values.”

Zbigniew Brezhinsky

Advisor to 5
U.S.
Presidents

From Between Two Ages

“Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish and unethical animal on the earth.”

Michael Fox

Vice President of The Humane Society

“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”

John Davis

Editor of Earth First! Journal

“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”

Sir John Houghton

First Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”

Paul Watson

Co-founder of Greenpeace

 
“…Advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”

Rebuilding
America
’s Defenses

The Project for a New American Century

 
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

Margaret Sanger

Planned Parenthood Founder

“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.”

United Nations

Global Biodiversity Assessment

“We put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year. Over 26 billion tons. For each American it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than 1 ton. It’s about an average of 5 tons for everyone on the planet. And somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. It’s been constantly going up; it’s only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all. So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling, and falling all the way to zero. [ CO2 = P x S x E x C ] This equation has four factors, a little bit of multiplication, so you’ve got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero – and that’s going to be based on the number of people, the services each per person is using on average, the energy on average for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy. So let’s look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero. Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero. Now that’s a fact from high school algebra, but let’s take a look. First we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now, if we do a really good job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive services, we could perhaps lower that by 10 to 15 percent. But there we see an increase of about 1.3.”

Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft and The Gates Foundation, TED Lecture

 
“The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.”

Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier, Nov. 1991

French naval officer and explorer, member Club of Rome

“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.”

Mikhail Gorbachev

Former President of the
Soviet Union
, member Club of Rome

“The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”

Initiative for Eco-92 Earth Charter

“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.”

David Brower

First Executive Director of the Sierra Club

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider

Founder and Secretary, respectively, of the Club of Rome

The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

Former U.S. Vice President and President

 
“The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size.”

Paul Ehrlich

Professor of Population Studies, from The Population Bomb, p.135

“The state of
Colorado
could seize antibiotics, cremate disease-ridden corpses and, under extreme circumstances, dig mass graves under executive orders...Infected corpses might have to be isolated at temporary morgues to prevent the spread of disease, Estock said. In certain situations, mass cremations or burials might be required. 'I don't want to come across as saying the state's going to make this decision to do mass cremations and ruin the lives of families. That's certainly not the intent,' Estock said. 'But it (the executive order) just gives us maximum flexibility.' “

Rocky Mountain News

“State prepares for bioterrorism / Executive orders give governor additional powers”, February 8, 2003

“At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?”

Bertrand Russell

Author and Philosopher

From The Impact of Science On Society (1953)

“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.”

Bertrand Russell

From The Impact of Science on Society (1953)

“…while great wars cannot be avoided until there is a World Government, a World Government cannot be stable until every important country has nearly stationary population.”

Bertram Russell

“Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly...Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never have been born.”

Margaret Sanger

Founder of Planned Parenthood

Quoted by Elsah Droghin in
The Pivot of Civilization

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced - a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”

UN Agenda 21

“In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.”