Interesting Essay: The Club of Rome

Overpopulation: The Fallacy Behind The Fallacy Of Global Warming

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Anthony Watts

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Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball

Global Warming was just one issue The Club of Rome (TCOR) targeted in its campaign to reduce world population. In 1993 the Club’s co-founder,Alexander King with Bertrand Schneider wrote The First Global Revolution stating,

“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.”

They believe all these problems are created by humans but exacerbated by a growing population using technology. “Changed attitudes and behavior” basically means what it has meant from the time Thomas Malthus raised the idea the world was overpopulated. He believed charity and laws to help the poor were a major cause of the problem and it was necessary to reduce population through rules and regulations. TCOR ideas all ended up in the political activities of the Rio 1992 conference organized by Maurice Strong (a TCOR member) under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The assumptions and objectives became the main structure of Agenda 21, the master plan for the 21st Century. The global warming threat was confronted at Rio through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It was structured to predetermine scientific proof that human CO2 was one contribution of the “common enemy”....

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When I lived in Toronto, I recall a local politician making a comment that global warming was such a useful tool to us that if it did not exist we would have to invent it. A potent admission in a throw away comment.  She understood the key was to control regardless of actions. More "ends analysis." You see, people need to be led to higher ground by polticians who have never made a pay roll.

Social planners and statists are a product of a pathology of the soul. What matters is their ideas be imposed. Logic, of course, is based upon weird assumptions. The problem is, the elitist gang has a predisposition to agree upon what is a threat to their inherited position.

The essay is wide in topic and the comments, unlike all other sites I have seen, engage in grown up discourse. There is an interesting observation regarding Malthus and Darwin. Malthus was not a scientist, per se, and his first principles were opinion.