If you're old enough, you have heard this nonsense before.
Posted on 06/07/2023 3:45:01 AM PDT by FarCenter
Since November, the global population has officially crossed eight billion, more than three times the figure in 1950.
This has already stretched food and energy needs and supplies. UN projections say the figure will balloon to 9.7 billion in the middle of the century.
"I don't think it's sustainable personally," he said in an interview on Tuesday.
"We need to figure out how we're going to deal with the issue of sustainability and the numbers of people we're trying to take care of on the planet."
Global warming is exacerbating the problem. The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement calls for capping global warming at "well below" two degrees Celsius and 1.5C if possible.
Producing food for eight billion mouths accounts for over a fourth of greenhouse gas emissions.
Cattle rearing for human consumption, food waste and deforestation further contribute to warming, which in turn is responsible for droughts, flooding and extreme weather conditions.
"I've been to a number of African countries where they're very proud of their increased birth rate but the fact is, it's unsustainable for life today, let alone when you add the future numbers," Kerry said.
"I'm not recommending the population go down," the 79-year-old added. "I think we have the life we have on the planet. And we have to respect life and we could do it in so many better ways than we're doing now."
Experts say Africa is one of the regions worst affected by climate change, with devastating droughts and flooding, although its citizens have had barely any impact on global warming compared to Western nations.
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Take one for the team, John. And your whole family too.
Lead the way John.
Take the early checkout
I am so sick of this pompous ass’s big mouth. He doesn’t know what he is talking about.
Yes he does. He wants a whole lot of people to die. I guess he is planning on himself not being one of them.
How would you define fool?
Just another Malthusian escapee from the Club of Rome
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If they really thought it was a problem they would have the border locked tight to prevent all the third world economic migrants from instantly (and massively) boosting their resource consumption by moving to the US. Instead they have them pouring over the border by the millions.
Kerry could help the environment by using zoom calls instead of a private jet.
Why does a fool always believe that he is the last one the alligator is going to eat?
As the late, great P.J. O’Rourke said: “Overpopulation: way too much of you, just the right amount of me.
Kerry is actually a perfect front man for the climate hoax.
Perhaps for the same reason that a fool always believes that he is the smartest one in the room.
Sometimes plans don’t work out.
It’s all there in history. Thomas Malthus was wrong about sustainability 200 years ago. Trofim Lysenko corrupted science 80 years ago. How many times will we fail to learn?
If you're old enough, you have heard this nonsense before.
--- "...the numbers of people we're trying to take care of on the planet."
Note the fascist's collective "we." Great white father speaks of care, while saying there are too many of YOU. Same as the century old Fabian Socialists from the UK, rinse and repeat.
How will the "we" take care of the "you." By the "kindly" application of depopulation. It only takes coercion and militant enforcement and destruction of individual liberty, but it will be worth it....
So said all the most recent murderous "leaders" of a century and more. That so many in the press amplifies this message means their are become the capos in the climate change "camp."
“I don’t think it’s sustainable _personally_”
The man has such arrogance, I can smell the stench from here. Just like everything else John, you don’t know jack - so sit down and STFU. Nobody elected you.
John Hanoi Kerry:
You and your bosses are not sustainable to our freedom.
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