Posted on 05/08/2007 10:45:18 PM PDT by goldstategop
Proving once again that foolish ideas don't die or fade away -- they walk the earth eternally, preying on the brains of the living -- scientists at a UK think tank have determined that the greatest threat to the planet is more human beings. "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights," explains Professor John Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). "The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."
The OPT is hardly the first to jump on the Malthusian bandwagon. The environmental left is in a constant state of apoplexy about the environmental cost of human existence. Back in 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich published his famous -- and entirely erroneous -- anti-reproduction manifesto, "The Population Bomb." "The battle to feed all of humanity is over," Ehrlich claimed. "In the 1970s the world will undergo famines -- hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." His solution: "The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate. We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out."
Naturally, no such disaster occurred. Nonetheless, "Children Are Global Cancer" Ehrlich remains a highly respected figure for the global left. In 1990, Al Gore trumpeted the sequel to "The Population Bomb," writing a glowing blurb for its dust jacket: "The time for action is due, and past due. The Ehrlichs have written the prescription." Gore neglected to mention that Ehrlich's prescription is mass distribution of RU-486.
The radical left embraces Ehrlich and OPT because it fundamentally believes in an atheistic version of original sin: We are all endowed with the evil capacity to consume. For the radical left, the planet is not a bountiful source to be protected and used for human happiness -- it is a Higher Power to be protected from humanity's rapaciousness. The planet should not be protected for future generations, they say -- it should be protected for its own sake.
This concept of Mother Earth as feckless deity and Man as apocalyptic destroyer is deeply perverse. Nonetheless, the Democratic Party has been infused with this planet-as-deity cultish fanaticism. The major item of faith for Democratic devotees is religious belief in manmade global warming, which every major Democratic politician has termed the most dramatic threat facing America.
The Party has its own religious figures. There's Gore, whom the Democrats have labeled a "prophet." There's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who religiously dismisses all evidence that global warming is not manmade: "The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal." There's Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has seen the light: "Today, the world's best and brightest scientists made clear that the debate on global warming is over. The world has moved beyond doubt, and now all that remains is to work urgently toward solutions." There's Barack Obama, who, during the recent Democratic presidential debate, mentioned only one lesson he's trying to teach his daughters: "working to install light bulbs that last longer and save energy."
Democrats have not yet openly embraced OPT's Heaven's Gate strategy, though many of them buy into the idea of "stabilizing population growth." For now, the Democrats will settle for crippling American standards of living in the name of a phantom threat. But it will not be long before Democrats -- like their more radical allies in Europe -- demand more in the name of protecting Gaia.
variations of this story have been seriously overposted.
The last humans could stash away enough food for their final days on earth. Once ALL humans have disappeared from the planet, Mother Earth can return to the pristine days before any humans existed! For the rest of eternity, Gaia can rest in bliss and peace.
We can achieve worldwide depopulation through birth control and abortion, and we can dispatch incorrigible holdouts by zapping them with gonad-sterilizing satellite-based xrays.
At last the earth can return to its natural, primeval state,
Gaia's virginity restored!
Virginity is its own reward!
The left wants to cut the population of European, Christian people. The left wants third-world countries to expand and overrun civilized countries like the USA and replace Christianity.
See here for good debunking, The Faithful Heretic:http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html#1
Christianity is not only alive and well in 3rd world countries, it is growing faster and more faithfully than anything we can imagine.
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International Issues
January 8, 2003
Rise of Christianity in the Third World
Pennsylvania State University Professor Philip Jenkins argues persuasively in “The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity” that Christianity, more than Islam, will shape the world’s rapidly growing parts. Consider this data:
* Ghana has more Presbyterians than Scotland, Nigeria has more Anglicans than Britain, and China soon will have more Christians than all but six nations.
* By 2025, 67 percent of Christians will live in Africa, Latin America or Asia.
* By 2050, the world will have three Christians for every two Muslims.
* By 2050, a third of Latinos and Asians will come from Christian backgrounds.
Looking at Catholic believers, in particular, Jenkins says that by 2025, 75 percent of all Catholics will live in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The growth of Christianity in the Third World has important political and social implications. For instance, religion, and not the state, could unify Third World residents. Jenkins points out that churches already are providing services where governments don’t.
Source: William McKenzie, “Religion sweeps by nationalism,” Dallas Morning News, January 7, 2003.
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The unstated goals of Communism, Environmentalism and Islam is the global extinction of humanity. I see the hand of Satan manipulating all of those puppets.
BTTT
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