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The Scientists Are Muttering About Population Control Again
2019-11-07
[PJ] The one thing that all environmentalists have in common is a hatred of humanity. They loathe mankind and feel guilty for being part of it. As noted cultural critic Sonny Bunch has noted, environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your life worse. For example, in the 2014 action-comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service, an insane tech billionaire played by Samuel L. Jackson wanted to kill off most of the population of Earth to save us from ourselves. In the Marvel movies, a tyrannical despot named Thanos wiped out half the universe to save the other half. I think the bad guy in Aquaman was an environmnentalist too, but I can't really remember much about Aquaman. Anyway, the point is that authoritarian lunatics make good villains.
Graphic narrative - Wilson's "I don't like the looks of that."
And the best part is that they think they're the good guys! Eric Roston, Bloomberg:

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.
"We declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency," the scientists wrote in a stark warning published Tuesday in the journal BioScience...
The scientists make specific calls for policymakers to quickly implement systemic change to energy, food, and economic policies. But they go one step further, into the politically fraught territory of population control. It "must be stabilized‐and, ideally, gradually reduced‐within a framework that ensures social integrity," they write.

And they want to know why we won't give up our guns.

If these 11,000 scientists really want to "stabilize" the planet by getting rid of humans, I say to them and everyone who agrees with them:

Posted by:Besoeker

#22  Its the same with all of the socialism/communism/"green" bullshit. None of the "elites" REALLY want to do away with limousines, private airplanes, firearms, etc--they merely want to do away with OTHER people's access to those things. They'll never lead by example.
Posted by: Crusader   2019-11-07 15:47  

#21  Getting rid of these 11,000 people would really give the earth a lot more time.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-07 12:11  

#20  ^ The Club of Rome effort in 1970 was the original global alarmist clownshow. IIRC they predicted the planet would run out of food in a decade or two.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-07 12:10  

#19  Reminds me of Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book "The Population Bomb." It was the first "the sky is falling" book on population control that I recall. The book pushed birth control and abortion as a means of population control. Now, it seems like the recommended solutions are becoming crazier and crazier.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-11-07 11:32  

#18  Exactly. The only reply worthy is "apres vous".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-11-07 11:30  

#17  Until the people that push this bullshit kill themselves to show their dedication, I'll continue to ignore it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-11-07 11:27  

#16  Fine, as soon as these brave scientists lead the way by being first to step into the suicide booths, we'll consider it. Til then, they need to shut the hell up.

We'll even make it painless, flood the booth with N2, drop the corpse into refrigerated pod for transport to the organ banks. See, we're recycling!"
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-11-07 11:26  

#15  Say what you want about Thanos, at least his method was random.

These people want to kill those who do not agree with them.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-11-07 10:36  

#14  AlanC, I thought that book was too far beyond reality when I first read it. Not so much now.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-11-07 10:02  

#13  Sterilize all the people in the world’s sh*t holes immediately.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-11-07 09:53  

#12  It's just them having angst over the artificially high numbers of people in cities due to the way incomes are taxed rather than land title.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-11-07 08:52  

#11  I'm okay with population control, as long as all of them go first.
Posted by: Raj   2019-11-07 08:31  

#10  I would be more impressed with their arguments if they all committed mass suicide a la Jonestown.

Usually people who say there are too many people mean there are too many other people.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-11-07 08:15  

#9  "See you next April!"
Posted by: Bigfoot Crereger4396   2019-11-07 08:02  

#8  "But, doc, I'm concerned!" Came the answer,
"Just let out your belt and your pants, sir.
Your burden is light...
Quick injection... All right?
You've got plenty of room for more cancer!"
Posted by: Bigfoot Crereger4396   2019-11-07 08:01  

#7  Hmmm... so Global Grifters tell us we need to take in MRI this country tens of millions of additional peasants from Mexico & Central America because, per sages like NYT's Bret Stephens, of all that empty space he sees when looking down from 30,000 feet upon the flyover country.

But these same buffoons tell us there are too many people, making too many problems, as Phil Collins sang.

Not enough serfs. But too many people. Right.

It's all so very... confusing.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-07 07:41  

#6  Tom Clancy wrote that book.

Billionaire leftist creates bio-weapon Ebola strain to kill almost everyone while he and his go to special hideout in the Amazon......Rainbow Six.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-11-07 07:31  

#5  Keep pushing socialism & communism and population will begin to decline without much additional effort.
Posted by: Airandee   2019-11-07 06:09  

#4  "A real gambler only bets on a sure thing" - Gordon R. Dickson (Lulungomeena)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-07 04:21  

#3  Bet implies chance. That's more of a fix.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-07 03:38  

#2  Betcha the same "scientists" are all for unrestricted immigration & humanitarian aid
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-07 03:17  

#1  Fine. Sterilize all the people in the world’s sh*t holes immediately.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-11-07 02:58  

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