Malthus, 2006.
 Malthus, 2006. "If I were to be reincarnated, I would wish to return as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
“I
do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be
kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of
birth control would prefer. War, as I
remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but
perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be
spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate
freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to
offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of
nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of
that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.”
-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1951, page 103. “Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. . . . we should . . . crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. . . . But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders. If by these and similar means the annual mortality were increased from 1 in 36 or 40, to 1 in 18 or 20, we might possibly every one of us marry at the age of puberty, and yet few be absolutely starved.” -Thomas Malthus, An Essay on
the Principle of Population, Book IV, Chapter 5, second edition, 1803, page 77.
“As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit’, admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit though less fertile parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective…Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupidly cruel sentimentalism.” -Margaret Sanger, The Eugenic Value of Birth Control
Propaganda, Birth Control Review, October 1921, 5 , Margaret Sanger MicrofilmS70:913. “What most united the thinking of Malthus and of the eugenicists (beyond the appearance of having scientific ‘laws of nature’ on their side) was their anti-democratic stance and their scarcely-concealed contempt for and fear of the poor. For ‘excess population’, one can always simply read ‘the majority’. In 1831, the English historian and Member of Parliament, Thomas Macaulay, spoke against universal suffrage. Acknowledging that many working people lived in misery, he expressed fear that giving them the vote would render them a danger to social order and private property rights. Protecting those rights against demagogues and discontents meant keeping political power in the hands of the few.” -Eric B. Ross, The Malthus
Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development,
1998, page 6. "Poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill-fed, ill-clothed people poison us, morally and physically; they kill the happiness of society, they force us to do away with our own liberties and organize unnatural cruelties for fear they should rise against us and drag us down into the abyss." -George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, 1905. "We insist on reserving the right to bomb niggers." -David Lloyd George, Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, 1971, p. 259. “What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples....Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent" -Dr. Richard Lynn, Emeritus Professor at the University of Ulster. "Within the next half-century, it will
be essential for the human species to have fully operational a flexibly
designed, broadly equitable, and internationally coordinated set of initiatives
focused on reducing the then-current world population by at least 80 percent."
-J. Kenneth Smail, Professor of Anthropology, May 1995. "I do not see why any insolence of caste should prevent the gifted class, when they had the power, from treating their [lower caste] compatriots with all kindness, as long as they maintained celibacy. But if these continued to procreate children, inferior in moral, intellectual and physical qualities, it is easy to believe that the time may come when such persons would be considered as enemies to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness." -Francis Galton, Fraser's Magazine, January 1873. "...even if successful, voluntary
family planning programs cannot be expected to resolve the world population
dilemma. Even in the more developed countries, and notably in the United States,
surveys show couples desiring more children than are necessary for
replacement... Thus we cannot rely on the self-interested choices of individual
couples to met society's needs. The only acceptable goal is zero rate of growth
because any rate of growth continued long enough leads to astronomical figures.
Given existing preferences in family size, governments must go beyond voluntary
family planning. To achieve zero rate of population growth governments will
have to do more than cajole; they will have to coerce...The logical target for
legal and institutional pressures is the family: pressures to postpone
marriages; economic pressures and inducements for married women to work outside
the home; provision of free abortions for all women requesting them;
downgrading of familial roles in comparison with extra familial roles; and
restriction of housing and consumer goods... Such institutional changes supply
motivation for family limitation and the provision of free abortions affords a
means. The implications of such major institutional changes go far beyond
population control. The family is the basic social unit of society and its
major institution for the socialization of the children... to impose more
drastic changes on a large scale implies many risks, not least to the regime
that undertakes them. The price for this type of population control may well be
the institution of a totalitarian regime."
-Frank Notestein, 'The Problem of Population Control', in The Population Dilemma, Philip Morris Hauser, Ed., 1969, pages 145-166. "Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics." -Frederick Henry Osborn, The Future of Human Heredity, 1968. “Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” -Julian
Huxley, UNESCO: its purpose and its philosophy, 1946, page 21. "First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent." -Bill Gates, Innovating to Zero!, speech to the TED2010 annual conference, Long Beach, California, February 18, 2010. "We must alert and organize the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crisis-exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today." -Jacques-Yves Cousteau, "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." -John Davis, Editor of Earth First! Journal, "[Cannibalism is a] radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation," -Lyall Watson, South African zoologist and
anthropologist, was quoted evoking cannibalism as a lifestyle choice for
committed Greens, The Financial Times, July 15, 1995. "...Genocide developed into a necessity under the cloak of environment protection." -Gert Groning & Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, 'Politics, Planning and the Protection of Nature: Political Abuse of Early Ecological Ideas in Germany, 1933-1945, Planning Perspectives, 2, 1987, page 129. “The population control or zero population growth movement, which grew rapidly in the late 1960's thanks to free media exposure and foundation grants for a stream of pseudoscientific propaganda about the alleged 'population bomb' and 'the limits to growth,' was a continuation of the old prewar, proto-fascist eugenics movement, which had been forced to go into temporary eclipse when the world recoiled in horror at the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the name of eugenics. By mid-1960s, the same old crackpot eugenicists had resurrected themselves as the population-control and environmentalist movement.” -Webster Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, 1991, page 207. "...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific
genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to
a politically useful tool." -Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century, Project for a New American Century, September 2000, page 60. "Current wisdom holds that population specific biological weapons are practically and theoretically impossible. Practically, many consider it impossibly difficult to use genetic variability to kill or otherwise affect populations. Others, including geneticists, argue that no suitable ethnic specific genes exist in the first place. Both notions are wrong. New technologies are indeed available to translate specific genetic sequences into markers or triggers for biological activity. And a recent analysis of human genome data in public databases revealed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of target sequences for ethnic specific weapons do exist. It appears that ethnic specific biological weapons may indeed become possible in the near future." -Sunshine Project, Ethnic specific biological weapons, from Emerging Technologies: Genetic Engineering and Biological Weapons, Project Backgrounder No. 12, October 2003. “Using biological weapons under the cover of an endemic or natural disease occurrence provides an attacker the potential for plausible denial.” -USAF Lieutenant Colonel
Robert P. Kadlec, 'Twenty-First Century Germ Warfare', in Battlefield of the Future: 21st century warfare issues, Barry R. Schneider and Lawrence E. Grinter, Ed., September 1998, page 228. “Malthus argued that poverty was the 'natural' product of the fertility of the poor, rather than of the social or economic system…Attributing environmental conflicts to overpopulation obscures the historical roots of resource depletion, including structural adjustment and free trade policies…The Malthusian argument has consistently overwhelmed other explanations of poverty…Malthusian famine scenarios have systematically distracted attention from the fact that it is not people’s reproductive habits that are the principal source of most of the misuse or waste of the world’s resources, but the contradictions and motives of capitalist development.” -Eric B. Ross, The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development, 1998. "...Yet Darwin himself was conscious of the source of his ideas about the struggle for existence. He claimed that the idea for evolution by natural selection occurred to him after reading the famous 'Essay on Population' by Thomas Malthus, a late eighteenth-century parson and economist. The essay was an argument against the old English Poor Law, which Malthus thought too liberal, and in favor of a much stricter control of the poor so they would not breed and create social unrest. In fact, Darwin's whole theory of evolution by natural selection bears an uncanny resemblance to the political economic theory of early capitalism...." -R. C. Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA, 1991, page 9. 1 comment | Post comment
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