Commentary: Gas Prices Soar and 'Population Controllers' Blame People?

Recent crises have reenergized the population control movement. Worried about food shortages? Reduce the number of babies born, its advocates argue.

Concerned about global warming? Contracept or sterilize more women. Want to bring down gas prices? Promote abortion around the globe.

As "Going Green" columnist Bryan Walsh puts it in the latest issue of Time magazine (June 2, 2008), "Population is the essential multiplier for any number of human ills."

Not so long ago, the population controllers would have been embarrassed to openly promote such ideas. After all, they have cried wolf so many times that most sensible people have stopped listening.

The movement's leading prophet of doom and gloom, Paul Ehrlich, has been repeatedly and utterly wrong . His 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb, warned that, with the earth approaching its carrying capacity, that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s.

Instead, the estimated 6.66 billion people alive today have never lived longer, eaten better, or had higher living standards than they do today.

Even Walsh has to admit that the "green revolution has vastly increased food production, while [Western trade and investment] have helped lift hundreds of millions in the developing world out of poverty."

Another reason for their self-conscious silence was the massive human rights abuses that occurred in forced-pace programs. Supported, encouraged, and funded by Western governments, developing world dictatorships embarked upon programs that mandated contraception, sterilization, and even abortion for millions of women.

China's notorious one-child per couple policy is only the best known of dozens of programs that have violated the right of couples to determine for themselves the number and spacing of their children.

Now, however, the population-control minded environmentalists are back, and in full cry.

[ Not so long ago, the population controllers would have been embarrassed to openly promote such ideas. After all, they have cried wolf so many times that most sensible people have stopped listening. ]

Wonder if the MooNbats have planned nukeing a couple BILLON people.. The socialists murdered merely 300,000,000 or so in the last century..

What can they do for an encore?..

DON'T ASK!!!!..

What is it going to take for the Republicans to stand up and shout down these MOONBATS! We are heading toward a SOCIALIST utopia and no one is left to “stand athwart history and shout stop!”. We need a short term energy policy (Drill our domestic oil NOW). We need a intermediate energy policy (Pebble Bed Reactors-NUKES). We need a long term energy policy.. (Solar, R and D etc.)

I am mad as HELL and I cannot take it anymore!!!!!

For the longest time I could not figure out the passion that the elitist class had for abortions and zero population growth. Environmentalists, leftists, and globalists seem unified in this type of logic ... the solution to our problems now and in the future is to get rid of people (except themselves of course). Being a fan of H.G. Wells science-fictions I came across a book he published in 1935 called “The Open Conspiracy”. I was totally suprised to see the above way of thinking clearly laid out in this book, as a game plan for leading mankind into a globalist technocracy utopian world.

Here are some direct qoutes out of the book that definitely caught my attention and are related to this current topic:

pg 47 - “It is true that man, like the animal world in general from which he has risen, is the creature of a struggle for sustenance, but unlike the animals, man can resort to methods of escape from that competitive pressure upon the means of subsistence. ... Intelligent control of population is a possibility which puts man outside the competitive processes that have hitherto ruled the modification of the species, and he can be released from these processes in no other way. There is a clear hope that, later, directed breeding will come within his scope, but that goes beyond his present range of practical achievement, and we need not discuss it further here. Suffice it for us here that the world community of our desires, the organized world community conducting and ensuring it own progress, requires a deliberate collective control of population as a primary condition.”

pg 48 - “In a world so relieved, the production of staple necessities presents a series of problems altogether less distressful than those of the present ...”

In summary, the vision of the globalist’s utopia requires a reduction of the masses so that the commodities and the resources will not run out for the elistist class that deserves to live the good life. Eugenics and abortion and environmentalism are merely a means to accomplishing this type of vision.

From a historical standpoint, this type of mindset had its intelluctal underpinnings in the English upper/political class of the early twentieth century. Today’s American upper/political class seem more than willing to promote and push this plan forward to start the twenty-first century.

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