Posted on 11/05/2019 5:00:17 PM PST by ebb tide
November 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – 11,000 scientists have signed onto an article declaring that “the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced,” because a “climate emergency” threatens “the fate of humanity.”
Written by the Alliance of World Scientists and full of alarmist, apocalyptic language, the article was published today in BioScience.
“Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, or more than 200,000 per day...the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity,” the authors wrote.
“There are proven and effective policies that strengthen human rights while lowering fertility rates and lessening the impacts of population growth on GHG emissions and biodiversity loss. These policies make family-planning services available to all people, remove barriers to their access and achieve full gender equity, including primary and secondary education as a global norm for all, especially girls and young women,” they continued, citing a study from John Bongaarts, a population control activist who spoke at the Vatican in 2017.
Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, however, has gone on record stating that the “biggest problem” facing the world is not population explosion, but “population collapse” because of plummeting birth rates.
“Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view,” said Musk in an August 19 live-streamed debate with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
Demographers have for years already been warning Western countries with below replacement-level birth rates about what some call the “demographic winter” as a result of the decline. In such a collapse, the old outnumber the young, creating severe imbalances. Economies suffer. Some could even crash. The result could negatively impact, and could prove detrimental, to some of the main infrastructures — such as financial systems and healthcare — that contribute to living in a western democracy.
The Alliance of World Scientists also called for a “carbon-free economy” and less meat-eating.
“The climate crisis is closely linked to excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle,” they wrote, not mentioning the private jets and sizable carbon footprints of many of the most elite, outspoken climate alarmists.
Screenshot of Drudge Report masthead, November 5, 2019
“The most affluent countries are mainly responsible for the historical GHG emissions and generally have the greatest per capita emissions... In the present article, we show general patterns, mostly at the global scale, because there are many climate efforts that involve individual regions and countries. Our vital signs are designed to be useful to the public, policymakers, the business community, and those working to implement the Paris climate agreement, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.”
Pro-life activists have long criticized the UN Sustainable Development Goals for being pro-abortion and pro-contraception, and warned that population control efforts undermine human rights and the family. Some population control advocates, such as Jeffrey Sachs (who was also invited to speak at the Vatican during the Francis pontificate), have openly called for forced abortion and sterilization.
Mainstream media promoted the pro-population control article, of which the Drudge Report also took note.
The BioScience article has been released on the heels of the Synod on the Pan-Amazonian Region, a meeting of Catholic bishops and religious ostensibly to discuss issues facing the Amazon. Many Catholics were concerned that the Amazon Synod would be used to advance a progressive, anti-Catholic, globalist agenda while also pushing for changes to unchangeable Catholic teaching.
Some of the demands of the BioScience article seem to be in the same vein as the Amazon Synod’s final document (which LifeSiteNews just translated from Spanish to English for the benefit of English-speaking Catholics): concerns about the extraction of materials, the insistence that governments do more to combat man-made “climate change,” a call to consume less meat.
Fine, don’t be a hypocrite. Start by killing your own children.
Ping
Start with the nations that have the highest birthrates.
I demand that those 11,000 scientists each give me $100 and by this time next year, I will have a solution that doesn’t involve population control.
We can start with 11,000 deranged scientists
Note: /s/
Sheesh! I remember when the Ozone Layer scare..”we’re all gonna die”..was trending.
Meanwhile, Muslims will be fruitful and multiply.
Fine. Figure out which segment of the global population is breeding like rabbits and mass sterilize them.
Just guessing, I’d say the Chinese and Muslims would be top of the list.
Good luck with that.
Well, that’s 11,000 people who should stand by their convictions and off themselves. Oh, they weren’t talking about removing *themselves*? Hypocrites.
You should go back to lurking if you agree with these scientists.
Mengula would be so proud of his fellow scientists.
Well, it’s “settled science”, isn’t it?
How about scientist control?
Seems eliminating 11,000 people would be a GREAT start!
It’s white populations that are the target.
It worked in California, now they want it rolled out in Canada, the USA, ANZ, and Europa.
I’ve never been able to figure out why these clowns don’t start with themselves. I guess it is because they are too important. They just come up with the cockameemee ideas and someone else has to implement them.
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