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Friday, September 18, 2009

Ebenezer Scrooge and Global Warming


"If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."


The timing couldn’t be more perfect: hardly had the dust settled on my article exposing the legacy of eugenics and social engineering in the American left, then news breaks about the report issued by the London School of Economics that the best way to combat global warming is to reduce the surplus population through contraception and abortion. (Click here to read the Lifesitenews report.) Ebenezer Scrooge’s infamous words, cited above, could not be more appropriate.

Although slippery slope arguments are generally not in favor among contemporary ethicists, it can hardly be denied that the logic of the LSE position extends far beyond their own application. As Telegraph columnist Gerald Warner pointed out, the proposal to reduce carbon emissions by reducing people does not go far enough for anti-human environmental extremists. "Why not save 80 billion tonnes by ending pregnancy completely? There is one sure way to prevent man-made global warming and that is to abolish man."

I have pointed out elsewhere that a real or imagined sense of crisis is the raw material for lawmakers with statist ambitions. The global warming crisis is no exception, as the last decade of hysteria has revealed. What is new, however, is the explicitly Malthusian categories in which environmentalists are content to operate. While men like Sir Francis Galton and Thomas Malthus believed that overpopulation (read: the poor) were draining the world of resources, their contemporary predecessors believe overpopulation is actually destroying the planet. The solution in both cases is simple: decrease the surplus population.
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4 comments:

  1. They are going to reduce the population very quickly with these new vaccines. I´d like to ask a question: Why have hundreds of the world´s best microbiologists all committed suicide or been murdered over the last few years? There is so much evidence that these vaccines have poisen in them. It´s so obvious. The company developing the vaccine was caught red handed dumping live virisus into them and now they are being sued. This is the goal, to decreaes the population. People need to research this!!!

    http://vactruth.com/


    http://media01.isagenix.com/Conferences/Audios/ProductTrainingCall090309.mp3

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/joseph-moshe-mossad-microbiologist-%e2%80%9cswine-flu-vaccine-is-bioweapon%e2%80%9d.html

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  2. the exact mercury levels of a new Austrilian vaccine was just published. It is enough for the EPA to consider a water supply contaminated, but perfectly okay to put in our bloodstream. Here are the exact details:

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/mercury-in-australian-approved-h1n1-vaccine.html

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  3. Yesterday Alex Jones published the side effects listed on the box for these new swine-flu vaccines. It said basically, caution this vaccine could cause...and then a list of basically every deblitating disease you could imagine ending in Gulliene-Barre syndrome (death). Today in the early morning prisonplanet published a new article exposing how in the state of New Jersey all children under the age of six would be required to take the toxic jab. This could turn into a de-facto jail sentence for the parents, as in the case in Maralaynd a few years ago where 2,000 parents faced going to jail for refusing to have their children vaccinated, ostensibly for truency because they weren´t sending their children to school but really because the schools wouldn´t accept unvaccinated children. People said I was a conspiracy theorist then, but now it is coming to pass on a much larger scale. Everyone in Peru is scared about the swine-flu, even though only one or two people have died from it and this winter in Peru over 700 people died from sheer cold, which is a documented fact. But that doesn´t stop the priests from refusing to touch the parishoners in blessing and even cautioning against receiving communion in certain kinds of ways. Most flues always come out of the east around flu season, but this flu originated in Mexico City in their summer. If a week before the bird-flu hit the news, U.S government scientists, by their own admission on the front page of the NY Times, were digging up dead bodies from the 1918 great influenza epidemic to create a deplicate, this one is probably anything except an act of God.

    Interseting, a friend in Portland sent me a copy of his certificate of immunity. It bears reading.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/17298929/Vaccine-Exemptions-Memorandum-of-Law

    patrick phillips

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  4. Compulsory abortions would be legal, according to a book co-authored by Obama´s science Zcar. On page 837, John Holdren writes,

    “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.¨

    A few chapters back he suggests how, ¨One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption...Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control..To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective...A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
    If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility...In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern.
    The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.¨¨

    So this is the man we have advising Obama on policy.

    Patrick Phillips

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