Posted on 04/28/2017 7:07:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bill Nye has some detestable ideas about humanity. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Many environmental doomsdayers share his totalitarian impulses (he has toyed with the idea of criminalizing speech he dislikes) and soft spot for eugenics.
In his Netflix series, "Bill Nye Saves the World," the former children's television host supplies viewers with various trendy notions to adorn his ideological positions with the sheen of science. In the final episode, Nye and his guests contemplate a thorny "scientific" question: How can the state stop people from having "extra kids"?
All of this was pretty familiar to me, and not only because the panel sounded like a ChiCom planning meeting. The Nye segment, it turns out, was just a repetition of a 2016 NPR article on overpopulation featuring Travis Rieder.
"Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?" asked Reider and others who were pondering the "ethics of procreation." The article is titled "Should We Be Having Kids in the Age of Climate Change?" In it, Rieder, a philosopher with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, scaremongers a class of college students about The End of Days and the immorality of having children. NPR describes: "The room is quiet. No one fidgets. Later, a few students say they had no idea the situation was so bad." It's not.
"Here's a provocative thought," Rieder says. "Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them." This is provocative in the way a stoner wondering why airplanes don't run on hemp is provocative. That's because the entire case for capping the number of children rests on assumptions entirely devoid of scientific or historical basis.
In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote that "the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." At that point, there were maybe a billion humans on Earth, so we might forgive him for worrying. In 1800, the life expectancy of the average British citizen -- Britain then being the leading light of the world -- was 39 years. Most humans lived in pitiless poverty that is increasingly rare in most parts of the contemporary world.
Now, had Nye been around in the early 19th century, he'd almost surely have been smearing anyone skeptical of the miasma theory of disease. The problem is he lacks imagination; he's unable to understand that science is here to help humanity adapt and overcome, not constrict it. Anyway, 7-plus billion people later, extreme poverty was projected to fall below 10 percent for the first time ever in 2015. Most of those gains have been made in the midst of the world's largest population explosion.
Additionally, it is reported that because of the spread of trade, technological advances and plentiful fossil fuels, fewer people are hungry than ever; fewer die in conflicts over resources; and deaths due to extreme weather have been dramatically declining for a century. Over the past 40 years, our water and air have become cleaner, despite a huge spike in population growth. Some of the Earth's richest people live in some of its densest cities.
It's worth remembering that not only was early progressivism steeped in eugenics but early '70s abortion politics was played out in the shadow of Paul Ehrlich's population bomb theory. Former Vice President Al Gore has already broached the idea of "fertility management." Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mentioned a few years ago, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
You thought right. Today, abortion is used as a means of exterminating a class of human deemed unworthy of life -- those with Down syndrome.
We live in a world where Ehrlich protege John Holdren -- who, like his mentor, made a career of offering memorably erroneous predictions (not out of the ordinary for alarmists) -- was able to become a science czar in the Obama administration. Holdren co-authored a book in late 1970s called "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," which waded into theoretical talk about mass sterilizations and forced abortions in an effort to save hundreds of millions from sure death. Nye is a fellow denier of one of the most irrefutable facts about mankind: Human ingenuity overcomes demand.
Now, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it can't happen in the future. But the evidence against Malthusianism is stronger now than it has ever been. And, of course, not everything about human existence can be quantified. This is the point. Talking about humans as if they were a malady that needs to be cured is, at its core, immoral. And listening to a man who has three residences lecture potential parents about their responsibilities to Mother Earth is particularly galling.
Although many thousands of incredibly smart and talented people engage in real scientific inquiry and discovery, "science" is often used as a cudgel to browbeat people into accepting progressive policies. Just look at the coverage of the March for Science last week. The biggest clue that it was nothing more than another political event is that Nye was a speaker. "We are marching today to remind people everywhere, our lawmakers especially," he told the crowd, "of the significance of science for our health and prosperity." Fortunately, our health and prosperity have blossomed despite the work of Nye and his ideological ancestors.
This is a great line that could easily be used on liberals a thousand times a day!
Another gem.
As an atheist I believed all of that over population doctrine. Having gotten saved while in the Army and now a proud father of 8 kids, I still find it an important subject. The subject is Christianity vs Anti-Christ.
Ki-Ki Keillor...?
A fun bit.
He was sued (and prevailed) for portraying a former boyfriend, of his then girlfriend, as a mope in some of his work.
I doubt he would beat the guy to a pulp?
Sorry
Bill Nye is nothing more than a perverted deviant.
Amazing the kids who grew up watching his show literally believe every piece of bovine dropping that fall off his lips...
He wants white people to stop having kids. He’s a communist pretending to be a scientist.
Creepy
As I mentioned in another post, you'd think that if Nye was concerned about overpopulation, poverty and the environment, he'd be worried about people having more children than they or their countries can support in Sub-Saharan Africa, where this is an actual problem. Instead, he is worried about too many children in "developed" (i.e. western, white) countries, even though most developed countries are at zero or negative population growth, and despite the fact that developed countries tend to be better at controlling pollution and stewarding our wild areas than any Third World nation.
One can only conclude that his concern for "the environment" is just another front to achieve the Leftist goal of "minority-majority" multiculturalism.
Bill Nye’s queer sexual orientation may save most young children from having to get anywhere near him.
Then when there aren’t enough babies, import unfit immigrants to fill the void. Brilliant!
Howard Beale: [laughing to himself] But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...
[collapses in a prophetic swoon as the audience erupts in thunderous applause]
I remember watching this a-hole when I was a kid.
You know Bill you can reduce the Earth’s population by 1 any time you like, feel free.
It is amazing that he has a BS in Mechanical Engineering yet feels he is an expert on anything and everything.
Both of my boys have advanced degrees in Engr (1, MS in EE/Computer Engr, other PhD in CHemE). They are smarter than Nye, and they don’t prance around like they are experts in all fields...and thank God they are not liberals!!!
Nye is disgusting. Not only are his remarks disgusting but his sexual video clips for his Netflix show are obscene—they truly are. Usually I post links to things I am referencing, but in this case I am not—IN NO way would I recommend anyone watch them~what is seen cannot be unseen.
He did kids shows when my adult children were in elementary school and they watched...
I have warned my kids not to let their kids watch him EVER, and I am fearful that there may be unaware millennial parents doing just that :(
I never watched him, but figured it was a positive to have a science “advocate” type to work with kids and inspire them to study the sciences.
Turns out this tool is just another Leftist SJW. F him and all of his ilk.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/march-for-science-signaling/
In other news, the gay French cuck is tanking. France may still have a pulse and a will to live.
#MFGA
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