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originally posted by: HarryJoy
The thing that amazes me the most is how many people there are that don't realize population control WILL HAVE TO HAPPEN AT SOME POINT. We may as well start figuring it out now.
originally posted by: HarryJoy
The thing that amazes me the most is how many people there are that don't realize population control..
Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth
All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.
Predicting Global Population Decline
Of course, consumers aren’t entirely blameless, particularly the world’s wealthiest individuals, but the idea that oil is a purely demand-side industry is ridiculous. In the 1980s, for example, when the oil crisis was finally over (oil prices had risen by 300 percent at one point) oil companies were very worried about the fact that Americans had gotten good at saving energy, so good that demand seemed to have permanently dipped. Did they reduce supply accordingly? No, they looked for ways to drive demand back up, tinkering with production and lobbying for policies that would incentivize increased fossil fuel use. More recently, as companies have grappled with a natural gas glut, they have not stopped fracking, but merely found a new revenue stream — plastic..
originally posted by: HarryJoy
I don't see why killing has to be a part of population control.......if all births were stopped there would be zero people within 100-120 yrs.
I'm not saying ALL births should be stopped. I'm just saying that control of reproduction is sufficient...imo
a reply to: DBCowboy
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Our species had so much potential, but instead of creating ways for everyone to live and grow, all we focus on is killing and destroying.
If this idea seems familiar, it’s because it has a long and dark history that harkens back to the eugenicists who argued that only the “fittest” should be allowed to breed, and anyone deemed “unfit” by the government-appointed boards—presided over by the eugenicists—should be sterilized, or, in extreme cases, put to death.
"But there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill. Not in any unkind or personal spirit, but it must be evident to all of you — you must all know half a dozen people, at least—who are no use in this world. Who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board, just as he might come before the income tax commissioner, and, say, every five years, or every seven years, just put him there, and say: “Sir, or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?”
George Bernard Shaw
This is the exact same talk of “Life Unworthy of Life ” that was employed in Nazi Germany as justification for their Aktion T4 program, which resulted in over 70,000 children, senior citizens and psychiatric patients being murdered by the Nazi regime.
Bioethics and the New Eugenics
"Do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective.
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists"
BERTRAND RUSSELL, EUGENICS, SOCIALISM AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
originally posted by: karl 12
Apparently 'population control' is a naughty word these days
"I am publishing this excerpt now because the poisonous ideology of “population control” — a branch of eugenics — is rapidly being revived in Western public discourse"
Bill Gates and the Myth of Overpopulation
originally posted by: dthrizz1337
Prob should help them out with malaria drugs really
As the WHO’s own malaria chief, Dr. Arata Kochi, warned in an internal memo, Gates’ influence means that the world’s leading malaria scientists are now “locked up in a ‘cartel’ with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group” and that the foundation is “stifling debate on the best ways to treat and combat malaria, prioritizing only those methods that relied on new technology or developing new drugs.”
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