In the late 16th century Thomas Malthus wrote a book entitled “an Essay on the Principle of Population”. In conclusion Malthus predicted the end of the world because the earth could never cultivate or sustain enough food for its growing population. Those that continue to subscribe to his model and manifesto are called “Malthusians”.
There have been several Malthusians in history, but one of the more famous is Paul Ehrlich who wrote “The Population Bomb” which was published in 1968. He predicted mass starvation and death by the 1970s and 1980s.
John Holdren President Obama’s Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, often referred to as the Science Czar, also worked and wrote with Paul Ehrlich as well as Ehrlich’s wife Ann. In 1977, they co-authored the book, “Ecoscience – Population, Resources and Environment”. Among many other atrocities, they suggested the following:
Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.
One of the impediments to population growth they did not address, but that which is coming true today, is the extensive reduction of natural gas. Without natural gas, fertilizer manufacturing dies. Without fertilizers, farming is methodically, significantly and systematically reduced in both productivity and output.
In order to grow, plants depend on nutrients in the soil. After harvesting, fertilizers replace depleted nutrients while modern synthetic fertilizers, as well, offer significantly greater crop yields. Some fertilizers actually need coal, but the essential energy ingredient in most modern fertilizers is natural gas. Further, synthetic fertilizers can also be customized for a specific crop as well as the region in which it is grown.
There are of course enhanced edibles, those crops genetically modified (GMO), or meat from cross-bred animals, or biofortified foods like protein enriched golden rice, which as the world’s most eaten food, was specifically adapted as food to fight malnutrition. However, it seems the trendy, “only organic foods for me crowd”, takes the often invoked liberal position, that if it’s not for me, it shouldn’t be for anyone.
It is estimated by UN’s World Food Program that at least 3.1 million children die each year and 161 million have stunted growth due to malnutrition, but it seems inconsequential to those who care more for the political potential of pretending to save us with fiction and fantasy.
As you see the tractors rolling into cities around the world protesting and gnarling up traffic, it is an awareness campaign relating to the most primary need of all and of all – food.
This is an unholy fight between green governance and the people they pledged to serve, yet it is truly amazing to witness the indifference and disregard of elitist rulers that would rather engage the pretense of climate change than continue to unobstructedly feed the world’s populations.
Rex Murphy of Canada’s National Post recently wrote, “Green alarmism is a wasteful and potentially destructive threat to standards of living unexcelled in all of history, to levels of comfort and security no other generations have even hoped for. It is more a mania than a real cause. One of the finest prayers I know is: Lord save us, from those who would save us.”
A former member of the Sierra Club and Zero Population, Paul Driessen a Geologist and a lawyer as well as a senior policy advisor with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) writes more on this here.