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http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2010/1007 ... study.htmlNEWS RELEASE
March 16 2009
EARTH HEADING FOR 5 BILLION OVERPOPULATION?
Conference to discuss sustainable population levels
A conference next week will attempt to answer a question that has fascinated scientists for centuries but has now taken on a new urgency – how many human beings can the Earth support?
With the earth’s population growing by around 80 million - a new Germany - each year, the Optimum Population Trust has assembled a distinguished group of experts to discuss the scientific case for lowering global and national populations to environmentally sustainable levels.
Speakers include: Tim Dyson, professor of demography at the London School of Economics; Prof. Andrew Watkinson, former director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; Robin Maynard, campaigns director of the Soil Association; John Guillebaud, emeritus professor of family planning and reproductive health at University College, London; Prof. Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum; Jonathon Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission; and Sara Parkin, founder-director of Forum for the Future and former co-chair of the Green Party.
Climate change, growing food shortages, the projected peaking of oil and gas supplies and the growth of international migration have focused renewed attention on population growth, with senior figures from both Labour and Conservative parties speaking recently of the need for population policies and leading figures in the green movement, including James Lovelock, author of the Gaia theory, warning of the dangers of overpopulation.
Lovelock agrees with many other commentators that the environmental crises facing humanity in the 21st century will significantly reduce the earth’s carrying capacity. He has said this could shrink the world’s sustainable population to 500 million - 1 billion, compared with a current total of 6.8 billion.
The Dutch inventor of the microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, is thought to have been the first to estimate the maximum number of people the earth could support: in 1679 he put it at 13.4 billion. Since 1950 there have been many estimates of global carrying capacity, ranging from 0.5 billion to 1,000 billion. Based on ecological footprint and biological capacity data which have become available over the last decade, OPT estimates the world’s sustainable population currently at five billion and the UK’s at 18 million (the UK’s actual current population is 61 million).
However, these figures are predicated on present levels and patterns of consumption. Greener lifestyles in the UK could push up its sustainable population; by contrast, if the world as a whole grows richer and consumes more, this will reduce the planet’s carrying capacity. If present trends continue, by 2050, when the UN projects world population will be 9.1 billion, there will be an estimated five billion more people than the Earth can support.
The subject of global and national carrying capacity generated much interest among ecologists and biologists in the 1960s and 1970s but until recently was out of favour, along with the population issue as a whole. In 1969, for example, the Royal Geographical Society held a symposium on The Optimum Population for Britain with an audience of mainly professional biologists. With the UK’s population then standing at 54 million, 90 per cent of participants thought the optimum population for Britain had already been exceeded.
David Nicholson-Lord, OPT policy director, said: “With global and UK population rising so fast, there is an urgent need to bring the issue of sustainable populations to the top of the political agenda. The Conservative leader, David Cameron, has said we need a ‘coherent strategy’ to address population growth and last autumn the immigration minister, Phil Woolas, said the UK needed a population policy. It’s high time the parties turned these words into action.
“We also hope the conference will help dispel the myth that big is good in relation to population and that population decline is a sign of national failure. In terms of quality of life and sustainability, the most ‘successful’ nations are generally the smallest. And what is arguably Britain’s most creative period – the era that produced Shakespeare – came at a time when her population was probably five million at most, a twelfth of today’s numbers. In population terms, small is not only beautiful: it works well too.”
The conference, Environmentally Sustainable Populations: The scientific case for population policy - and ways of achieving sustainability, will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on March 26.
In case, you that that is fantastic nonsence;British Royals Behind New Depopulation Scheme
July 16, 2010 (EIRNS)—The Royal Consort, Prince Philip. and the hare-brained heir apparent, Prince Charles, have long advocated the reduction of the world's population from its level today of 6.8 billion, to less than 2 billion backward peasants to maintain the British Empire's control of the world. Now, the British Royal Society has started a policy group entitled "Population And The Planet" that will advocate radical genocide similar to that called for by Prince Philip's WWF.
The policy group announced on "World Population Day," July 11, is, according to the Royal Society release, intended to study "the role of global population in sustainable development," and to look at "the implications of population decreases, as well as increases that are predicted in different parts of the world." The study is scheduled to be completed by early 2012, "to coincide with the point at which the world's population is expected to exceed 7 billion."
Not surprisingly, three of the 23 panelists come from the 20-year-old Optimum Population Trust, which first surfaced in a big way at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference arguing that the solution to the genocidal climate-change hoax was the reduction by 5 billion people, who would consume less of the world's resources. Prince Charles is a "patron" of this genocidal group.
Thus, Prince Charles' long-time advisor and friend, Sir Jonathan Porritt, who is also on the board of OPT, has been selected as a panelist. Like Charles, Sir Jonathan has a loathing for non-organic food, because it is cheaper and more plentiful, and can halt mass starvation. Apart from Sir Jonathan, there are on the panel two other OPT members, including Sir David Attenborough, who argues that mankind's growth is killing wildlife and insects, and the sooner man is extinct, the better. And, there is OPT patron Partha Dasgupta, who is a professor of Economics at Cambridge University.
Chairing the panel is Sir John Sulston, chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics & Innovation, and head of the eugenicist Human Genome Project.
Demographers have noted that population replacement in high-level consumption areas of the world is declining, with growth only in poverty stricken Africa, where there is high infant mortality. One recommendation that the OPT panelists are likely to present to the Royal Academy, writes Dominic Lawson in the Independent July 13, is their Popoffsets program, whereby high consumption areas of the world would give aid for their higher C02 usage to Africa to help in family planning programs, rather than toward global development. According to Oxfam PopOffsets "if their [OPT] arguments were based on logic alone, the population lobby would probably be advocating euthanasia rather than birth control, but its preponderance of elderly white male members makes that pretty unlikely."
Not so. Prince Philip, who founded the WWF with the former Nazi intelligence officer, the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, is fully in favor of euthanasia and other forms of genocide
1) "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...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war." - HRH Prince Philip, interview "Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation", People Magazine, Dec. 21, 1981
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http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/cabin ... ds-ss-pastThe Dutch government knew of the SS membership of the late Prince Bernhard as early as 1944, according to NRC Handelsblad.
The newspaper bases its finding on documents released by the National Archive in The Hague earlier this year. One of the documents refers to a coded telegram, dated September 1944, from Foreign Minister Eelco van Kleffens. The telegram reveals the cabinet knew Prince Bernhard had briefly joined the SS but suspected he had been unable to avoid doing so, "possibly in order to prevent something worse". In the telegram, the foreign minister instructs the Dutch ambassador in the United States not to refute claims, made by American media as of 1941, that Prince Bernhard had been a member of the SS.
Until now, it was not clear if the Dutch cabinet knew such allegations had any basis in fact. For many years Prince Bernhard remained evasive on his links with the Nazi NSDAP party and related organisations. In an interview with De Volkskrant, published shortly after his death in December 2004, the prince admitted to his SS membership for the first time. He always denied having belonged to the NSDAP.
