Club of Rome/Key citations

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“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”

   Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”

   Dr David Frame, Climate modeler, Oxford University

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."

   Paul Watson, Co-founder of Greenpeace

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen."

   Sir John Houghton, First chairman of IPCC

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."

   Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

   Alexander King Co-Founder of the Club of Rome, (premier environmental think-tank and consultants to the United Nations) from his 1991 book The First Global Revolution

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."

   Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports. He is a member of the Club of Rome.

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."

   Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation and member of the Club of Rome.

"Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” "[The Earth Summit will play an important role in] reforming and strengthening the United Nations as the centerpiece of the emerging system of democratic global governance." "The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security."

   Maurice Strong, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Al Gore's mentor and executive member of the Club of Rome. Maurice Strong sits on the board of directors for CCX.

"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."

   Al Gore, member of the Club of Rome and set to become the world's first carbon billionaire. He is also the largest shareholder of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), which looks set to become the world's central carbon trading body.

"The threat of environmental crisis will be the 'international disaster key' that will unlock the New World Order."

   Mikhail Gorbachev, Former President of the Soviet Union, member of the Club of Rome

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

   David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum and donated the land on which the United Nations stands. Speaking at a U.N. Business Conference, Sept. 14, 1994

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

   David Rockefeller, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

"Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure 'one world', if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

   David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405

"The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man."

   Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974

"… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.”

   Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind, 1976.

"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people…. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."

   Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb. Paul Ehrlich is a member of the Club of Rome.

"I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today” “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”

   Dave Foreman, Co-founder of Earth First! and member of the Club of Rome.

“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”

   Henry Kissinger, , Former National Security Advisor, Former Secretary of State, chairman of Kissinger Associates, member of the Club of Rome.

“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”

   Mikhail Gorbachev, Former President of the Soviet Union, member of the Club of Rome

“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”

   Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor, member of the Club of Rome.

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it."

   Jacques Cousteau, French naval officer and explorer. Member of the Club of Rome.

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

   Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, member of the Club of Rome.