Overpopulation

"Overpopulation" (polarising perspective,  victim blaming)
Interest of	• "Smart city" • "The Good Club" • David Attenborough • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Club of Rome • Deagel • Paul Ehrlich • Chris Elias • Bill Gates • Jane Goodall • Yuval Harari • Hewlett Foundation • Boris Johnson • Stanley Johnson • David MacEachron • Thomas Malthus • Roger Martin • Philip Mountbatten • New Order of Barbarians • Population Council • Population Institute • Population Matters • John Davison Rockefeller III • SDS • Sierra Club • Peter Singer • The Great Reset • Ted Turner • UN/Population Fund
Predecessor(s)	eugenics
A less obviously racist replacement for eugenics, designed to shift focus away from over consumption.

"Overpopulation" is a word used to suggest that there are too many people. It is typically used by those in countries with relatively low populations that are high consumers of material goods. The term is also a replacement for the word "eugenics", which was discredited after the defeat of the Nazis in 1945.

Victim blaming

The word "overpopulation", and a lot of the associated dogma and language conjures a simple frame of scarcity by sharing a fixed amount of things between too many people. To the extent that this overlooks a history and/or present of plunder by colonial powers (i.e. "developed" nation states) it is a form of victim blaming: people here are poor because there are too many of them, not because the country has been looted by foreigners determined to get more resources which they themselves deplete at an unjustifiable high rate.

Significance in Geopolitics

"People are the only vital raw material for building human societies. Without people, the most elegant architectures and the most advanced infrastructures are nothing but archeological marvels waiting to be recognized. With people, a handful of sands in desolate landscapes could turn into a flourishing civilization. This simple most essential fact did not escape the attention of, nor was it dismissed so callously by any people of any generation bar those of our modern era. Historically, if a society wished to thrive and prosper on social, cultural, economic, and scientific grounds, or any other human concerns, its most rudimentary first step was to grow its population. A population that does not physically grow, stagnates and withers away. Along the same lines, if a society was deemed as an impediment to expansionists who coveted its lands and resources, the mechanism for the aggressor was rather simple: reduce that society’s population by killing as many of its people as possible if you are interested in a cross-sectional plunder. Kill or capture as many of its women of child-bearing age as possible to stop it from growing if you are determined to make your loot absolute."

Advocates

Macfarlane Burnet

The Nobel prize winner Frank Macfarlane Burnet, in 1947, secretly urged the Australian government to develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other overpopulated countries of South-East Asia by targeting food crops and spreading infectious diseases.

Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk, an American virologist and medical researcher, who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines argues in his 1973 book: "Survival of the Wisest", that as much as population growth has been a factor for survival of the human species in the past, now population control becomes a factor for survival.

National Security Study Memorandum 200

NSSM 200 from December 10, 1974, also called 'The Kissinger report', concluded that: "a far larger, high-level effort is needed [...] to bring population growth under control" and "although world population growth is widely recognized within the Government as a current danger of the highest magnitude calling for urgent measures, it does not rank high on the agendas of conversations with leaders of other nations".

Under Policy Recommendations it says:

• 28. World policy and programs in the population field should incorporate two major objectives:
  • (a) actions to accommodate continued population growth up to 6 billions by the mid-21st century without massive starvation or total frustration of developmental hopes; and
  • (b) actions to keep the ultimate level as close as possible to 8 billions rather than permitting it to reach 10 billions, 13 billions, or more.

Denise Horn of the Northeastern University in a 2012 paper analyses:

"[...] the original intent of ‘population control’ was to protect US access to raw resources and maintain US global supremacy. US family policies did not first identify woman as the object to be controlled, but policies have changed such that women's bodies have become a symbolic representation of – and site of resistance to – the power relationships between the US and developing states. The change in the rhetoric – from population control to family planning, women's empowerment, environmental sustainability and human rights – does not mean the ‘rules’ enforced by the hegemon have changed so much as it indicates a process of identity formation occurring through the implementation of these rules.

The history of US family planning policies is a story of national security issues played out on women’s bodies, in the developing world and within the shifting discourses of women’s empowerment, environmental protection and resource control. US funding for family planning programs continues to inflame passions on both sides of the debate: family planning either represents an imperative of a woman’s right to reproductive choice or is in conflict with conservative values and the right to life. US domestic debates over abortion rights are played out on the international stage as successive administrations defend or weaken international family planning programs. These political and rhetorical positions, however, belie American foreign policy goals that have been in place since the 1960s and 1970s, when policy makers identified overpopulation as a serious threat to the world’s resources and American security concerns.

Global 2000

The 'Global 2000 Report to the President' from August 1, 1980 predicted: "The environment will have lost important life-supporting capabilities. By 2000, 40 percent of the forests still remaining in the LDC's in 1978 will have been razed. The atomspheric concentration of carbon dioxide will be nearly one-third higher than preindustrial levels. Soil erosion will have removed, on the average, several inches of soil from croplands allover the world. Desertification (including salinization) may have claimed a significant fraction of the world's rangeland and cropland. Over little more than two decades, 15-20 percent of the earth's total species of plants and animals will have become extinct -- a loss of at least 500,000 species" concluding "thus anyone with a present life expectancy of an additional 50 years could expect to see the world population reach 10 billion. The same rate of growth would produce a population of nearly 30 billion before the end of the twenty-first century. Here it must be emphasized that, unlike most of the Global 2000 Study projections, the population projections assume extensive policy changes and developments to reduce fertility rates".

Georgia Guidestones

The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in Georgia whose financially wealthy erectors wanted to remain anonymous, propose a limit of 500,000,000 humans on the planet.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
COVID-19/Medical killings	During the COVID-19 deep event, a number of governments implemented policies that drastically increased death numbers
Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation	At the request of the US, the UK military forced the population of the Chagos Archipelago off their ancestral land so that the USA could construct a military base.
Immunocontraception	Immunocontraception is the use of vaccines in order to cause temporary infertility.
Planned Parenthood
Population control	In the relevant publications of the Club of Rome population control is used as euphemism for population reduction, eugenics and corporatism
Sterilization campaign	Large-scale and well organized sterilization efforts for population control and reduction.
Suburbanization	Population growth in cities

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Climate change"	“we came up with the idea that ... global warming ... and the like, would fit the bill.”	Alexander King Club of Rome Bertrand Schneider	1993
David Attenborough	“We now know the disasters that continue to inflict the natural world have one element that connects them all… The unprecedented increase in the number of humans beings on the planet...It needs actions by governments. In my view, all countries should develop a population policy”	David Attenborough	2011
David Attenborough	“For the past 20 years I've never had any doubt that the source of the Earth's ills is overpopulation. I can't go on saying this sort of thing and then fail to put my head above the parapet..”	David Attenborough	2009
David Attenborough	“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.”	David Attenborough	2018
David Attenborough	“I have no doubt that the fundamental source of all our problems, particularly our environmental problems, is population growth. I can’t think of a single problem that would be easier to solve if there were less people”	David Attenborough	January 2020
David Baltimore	“When I first saw the furin cleavage site <a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus. (...) These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2.”	David Baltimore
Jair Bolsonaro	“If you accept this vaccination passport, soon there will be another requirement, and another one... and you know where it will stop then... Population control!"”	Jair Bolsonaro	2021
Anatoly Chubais	“From the 7 billion that will be reached this week, the world population should drop to two and a half or even one and a half billion people by the end of the century. A three-fold reduction in the population would be simply unthinkable, although serious scientists are talking about exactly this.”	Anatoly Chubais	2011
Climate change/Preparation	“Similarly, the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia, the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Indus Valley civilization in India, and early societies in Palestine, Greece, and Crete all collapsed in a catastrophic drought and cooling of the atmosphere between 2300 and 2200 B.C.”	Didier Sornette	2003
Club of Rome	“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”	Alexander King Club of Rome Bertrand Schneider	1993
Jacques Cousteau	“It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. but the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.”	Jacques Cousteau	1991
Paul Ehrlich	“The optimum population of Earth – enough to guarantee the minimal physical ingredients of a decent life to everyone – was 1.5 to 2 billion people rather than the 7 billion who are alive today or the 9 billion expected in 2050...How many you support depends on lifestyles. We came up with 1.5 to 2 billion because you can have big active cities and wilderness. If you want a battery chicken world where everyone has minimum space and food and everyone is kept just about alive you might be able to support in the long term about 4 or 5 billion people. But you already have 7 billion. So we have to humanely and as rapidly as possible move to population shrinkage. Some maybe slow motion disasters like people getting more and more hungry, or catastrophic disasters because the more people you have the greater the chance of some weird virus transferring from animal to human populations, there could be a vast die-off." [...] It's hard to think of anything that will pop up and save us. I hope something will but it really will be a miracle."”	Paul Ehrlich	2012
Bill Gates	“In terms of intellectual property, what we do is actually very simple: we fund research, and we ourselves or our partners create intellectual property, so that everything that is invented with the help of foundation money and goes to richer countries actually pays off.”	Bill Gates	16 May 2011
Bill Gates	“First, we've got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”	Bill Gates Innovating to zero TED talk	18 February 2010
Jane Goodall	“It’s our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we’ve inflicted on the planet. If there were just a few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn’t really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it — but there are so many of us.”	Jane Goodall	November 2007
Jane Goodall	“All these [environmental] things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.”	Jane Goodall	January 2020
António Guterres	“I urge world leaders to fully support the Global Vaccination Strategy I launched with the World Health Organization (WHO) last month. We need to get vaccines into the arms of 40 per cent of people in all countries by the end of this year — and 70 per cent by mid-2022.”	António Guterres	1 December 2021
Barbara Marx Hubbard	“One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.”	Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard	“This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed… The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.””	Barbara Marx Hubbard
Boris Johnson	“Global over-population is the real issue [...] The UN last year revised its forecasts upwards, predicting that there will be 9.2 billion people by 2050, and I simply cannot understand why no one discusses this impending calamity, and why no world statesmen have the guts to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves.”	Boris Johnson	25 October 2007
Boris Johnson	“How the hell can we witter on about tackling global warming, and reducing consumption, when we are continuing to add so relentlessly to the number of consumers? The answer is politics, and political cowardice.”	Boris Johnson	25 October 2007
Stanley Johnson	“Interviewer: Do you have a sense of what the carrying capacity of Britain is, or of the world as a whole? Stanley Johnson: Britain I put it at 10 or 15 million, I think that would be absolutely fine, I mean that would do us really splendidly, at a limit 20 - 25.”	Stanley Johnson
Philip Mountbatten	“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war. Can you give me an example? I was in Sri Lanka recently, where a United Nations project set out in the late 1940s to eradicate malaria. It’s an island and it was therefore possible to destroy the mosquito carrying the disease. What people didn’t realize was that malaria was actually controlling the growth of the population. The consequence was that within about 20 years the population doubled. Now they’ve got to find something for all those people to do and some way to feed them.”	Philip Mountbatten	21 December 1981
Philip Mountbatten	“I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist… I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.”	Philip Mountbatten	1987
William Mountbatten-Windsor	“We are going to have to work much harder and think much deeper, if we are to ensure that human beings and the other species of animal with which we share this planet can continue to co-exist...Africa's rapidly growing human population is predicted to more than double by 2050, a staggering increase of three and a half million people per month...There is no question that this increase puts wildlife and habitat under enormous pressure. Urbanisation, infrastructure development, cultivation—all good things in themselves, but they will have a terrible impact unless we begin to plan and to take measures now.”	William Mountbatten-Windsor	2017
Pieter Omtzigt	“The French have been utilizing population policies for centuries. And they still think that they lost the Franco-Prussian War because they didn't have enough soldiers to send to the front lines. And that's why I don't want to implement any form of populace policy.”	Pieter Omtzigt	27 November 2004
Michael Oppenheimer	“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialisation we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”	Michael Oppenheimer
Aurelio Peccei	“Otherwise, some solution will come the hard way. Many hypotheses have been advanced. I will cite three ghastly solutions that are ventilated as belonging to the realm of the possible. One is biological: nature, which maintains so many balances, will see to it that human incontinence will be remedied, through some new germ or virus. Another is constrictive and prophylactic: the day may not be far off when—by grafting of population from one region to another, forced exodus, or mass sterilization, or with the help of other clean methods biochemistry might suggest — a ceiling on population or new births will be enforced, in some nations by due process of law, in others perhaps by international measures. And the third, the harshest, is hinted at in a most pessimistic essay by Professor J. D. Bernal (Enormity or Logic and Hypocrisy in the Ultimate Solution, October 1967) — "there is no limit to human folly and callousness" —in the sense that all will end, as the only compassionate and rational solution left, with the elimination of all surplus humans, who will of course belong to the poor of the world. No comment is necessary.”	Aurelio Peccei	1969
Population Matters	“The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrolled way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most.”	David Attenborough
Population Matters	“The idea that every woman should have as many babies as she wants is to me exactly the same kind of idea as, everybody ought to be permitted to throw as much of their garbage into their neighbor’s backyard as they want.”	Paul Ehrlich	2 November 2015
Jon Rappoport	“Long term, the medical cartel is the most dangerous cartel in the world, because they fly under a politically neutral banner. They claim they are completely non-partisan, we are here to help, to heal, and that's it. Who could doubt that? This is the greatest cover operation anyone could conceive of, using medical science, the medical system, with its toxic drugs, its toxic vaccines, to destroy whole populations from within. And occasionally come out with some massive epidemic program to further suppress and destroy populations.”	Jon Rappoport	29 September 2022
Athanasius Schneider	“[...] and we dont know, maybe history will show us, what is still behind this vaccine campaign, world campaign. What is behind the, the principle reason, or aim, maybe we will know this after some time. Some people say, with some proofs, that it could be, it is probable, that one of the main aims behind this global vaccine campaign is to reduce the world population. A kind of population control. I would not exclude this. [...]”	Athanasius Schneider	November 2021
Sierra Club	“Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”	David Brower
Transhumanism	“unless [civilised societies] invent and enforce adequate measures for regulating human reproduction, for controlling the quantity of population, and at least preventing the deterioration of quality of racial stock, they are doomed to decay”	Julian Huxley	1926
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	“All these [environmental] things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.”	Jane Goodall
Michael Yeadon	“It’s become absolutely clear to me, even when I talk to intelligent people, friends, acquaintances … and they can tell I’m telling them something important, but they get to the point [where I say] ‘your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death and that of your children,’ and they can’t begin to engage with it. And I think maybe 10% of them understand what I said, and 90% of those blank their understanding of it because it is too difficult. And my concern is, we are going to lose this, because people will not deal with the possibility that anyone is so evil…”	Michael Yeadon	April 2021
Michael Yeadon	“If you wanted to depopulate a significant portion of the world, and to do it in a way that wouldn’t require destruction of the environment with nuclear weapons, or poisoning everyone with anthrax or something, and you wanted plausible deniability, whilst you had a multi-year infectious disease crisis; I don’t think you could come up with a better plan than what seems to be in front of me. I can’t say that’s what they’re going to do, but I cannot think of a benign explanation for why they are doing it.”	Michael Yeadon	April 2021

 

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