#but apparently i reduced from the wrong problem and my reduction is fundamentally wrong

[scarletcomet]

how to convince professor to give me a better grade because i might kill myself otherwise?

[englishchinesetranslations]

“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated, it’s an economic mess, and there’s no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: back to

the village.”

Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation, stated such,

ironically, in 1984:

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

Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine

“There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels.

Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get

the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population

is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian

government, even fascism, to reduce it....” “Our program in El Salvador didn’t

work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too

goddamned many people.... To really reduce population, quickly, you

have to pull all the males into the fighting and you have to kill

significant numbers of fertile age females....” The quickest way

to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or

through disease like the Black Death....

Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs

“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.... But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of

mistaking symptoms for causes. 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, Bertrand Schneider – Founder and Secretary, respectively,

TheClub of Rome, The First Global Revolution, pgs 104-105, 1991

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.

Stanford Professor ” Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb

“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.”

J. Cousteau, 1991 explorer and UNESCO courier

I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today”

and, “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”

Dave Foreman, Sierra Club and co founder of Earth First!

“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

“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore

order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that

there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that

threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to

deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When

presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the

guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”

Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Dr. Henry Kissinger New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third

world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of

minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries”.

Dr. Henry Kissinger

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” and “The elderly are useless eaters”

Dr. Henry Kissinger

“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”

Dr. Henry Kissinger

“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

“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and

fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be

solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate

for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne Ebola (Ebola

Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years.

“We’ve got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing

humans. Think about that. “You know, the bird flu’s good, too. For everyone who

survives, he will have to bury nine”

Dr. Eric Pianka University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert,

showed solutions for reducing the world’s population to an audience on

population control

“The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity,

cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception,

sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of

numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”

Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER

“In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women

to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this.”

Mark Earley in The Wrong Kind of Party Christian Post 10/27 2008

"Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers

should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years.”

Marjo Van Dijken (author of the bill in the Netherlands) in the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/04/humanrights-women

“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature”

Anonymously commissioned Georgia Guidestones

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to

lower human population levels.”

Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the

World Wildlife Fund

"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, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover

cutting the Fallopian tubes.”

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Rome was decided, there was concern

about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t

want to have too many of.”

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the

optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various

countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might

remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some

power to enforce the agreed limits.”

Obama’s Science czar John P. Holdren: From a book he helped write ‘Ecoscience’

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world

government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent,

all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there

is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly

evil in intent.”

Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that

was shot down by the Soviet Union

P.S. And there's this:

“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to

worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian

Initiation.”

David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations

(People will shortly be expected to line up to take the COVID vaccination, with its

Luciferase enzyme)

[weareyour4]

What You Eat Affects How We Live: Climate Change and Animal Farming by Valentina H

My name is Valentina and I am a university student and an activist looking for ways to inspire positive social change through various media - one of them being this blog post extracted from my Bachelor’s dissertation which I’d written with a focus on the link between climate change, animal agriculture and human behaviour. I will introduce the main facts and figures on climate change and relevant philosophies related to human and non-human animals.

Introduction

With the current state of world affairs and apparent global issues, it is hardly news that a number of changes need to occur to help the planet and the people. The environmental issues are well known yet little is done to stop them. Eight million tonnes of plastic – bottles, packaging and other waste – are dumped into the ocean every year, killing marine life and entering the human food chain (Reuters, 2017). As our diets become more meat- and dairy-rich, the hidden climate cost of our food mounts up (Dave Reay for France-Presse, 2017). PETA believes that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or used for our entertainment or abuse in any other way, yet many people have never even considered the impact that their clothes, food, cosmetics or entertainment may have on the lives of animals (2018). Vegans advocate that rearing animals for food is bad for the environment and inefficient; they suggest that world food shortages could be solved by farming crops rather than animals (politics.co.uk, 2018). To sum up the main concern of this article swiftly:

“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” (Taalas for McGrath, 2018)

Climate change & Agriculture

We find ourselves in a time where climate change is finally understood for what it is, even with big name politicians (ahem) fooling us into believing it’s a myth. Every fraction of a degree of global warming makes a difference to human health, access to food and fresh water, extinction of animals and plants, survival of coral reefs and marine life, difference to economic productivity, food security, and to the resilience of our infrastructure and cities; it makes a difference to the speed of glacier melt and water supplies, and the future of low-lying islands and coastal communities (Elena Manaenkova for McGrath, 2018). Global warming is also linked with extreme weather events, disease outbreaks, population displacement and armed conflict as well as inevitable shifts in agriculture (Geggel, 2018).

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has stated that fundamental agriculture reforms are needed for the UK to reach carbon neutrality (George, 2018) This means the number of cattle and sheep in the UK should be reduced by between a fifth and a half to help combat climate change, because beef and lamb produce most farm greenhouse gases (Harrabin, 2018). To free up land from agriculture, we need to decrease our demand for meat and dairy products. The recent NHS Eatwell guide proposes a reduction in consumption of 89% for beef and 63% for lamb, and a 20% decline in dairy products (Harrabin, 2018).

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation; methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than CO2, is produced from human activity in almost equal measure from gas leaks during the production and transport of coal, oil and natural gas; and from the flatulence of ruminants such as cattle and sheep, as well as the decay of organic waste, notably in landfills (France-Presse, 2017).

“Cows belching less methane may not be as eye-catching as wind turbines and solar panels, but they are just as vital for addressing climate change” says prof. Dave Reay for France-Presse (2017).

Joseph Poore at the University of Oxford says that avoiding the consumption of animal products altogether delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy (Carrington, 2018).

Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is a philosophy which regards human beings as the central or most significant entities in the world, separate from and superior to nature which is a resource that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind (Boslaugh, 2018). Many ethicists find its roots in the Creation story told in the book of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Bible, in which humans are created in the image of God and are instructed to ‘subdue’ Earth and to ‘have dominion’ over all other living creatures, condoning an instrumental view of nature, where the natural world has value only as it benefits humankind (Boslaugh, 2018).

Burchett (2014) says that ‘our species’ most extensive ecological degradations since the industrial revolution have been inordinately influenced by consumers in societies whose intellectual founders took humans to be the measure of all things, many environmentalists have taken it for granted that ecological degradation is an inevitable side effect of anthropocentrism.

The anthropocentrism that I stand against is that of human-centeredness which fails to value humanity as such and that fails to acknowledge humanity’s dependence and influence upon nature. Burchett (2014) also notes that humanity’s ecological predicament is not the result of overvaluing humanity, but of ��permitting institutionalized forms of ethical egoism to underlie policies that narrowly focus on the short-term, frivolous interests of current individuals at the expense of the vital interests of future generations.” But why would we ever permit policies and legislations that are foreseeably detrimental to the long-term satisfaction of basic and vital human interests and contrastingly oppose sustainable development?

Speciesism

Broglio (2011) outlines our relationship to non-human animals by stating we traditionally view them as having limited faculties and we differentiate ourselves from them by measuring them against our considered superiority, and this flattening of animals’ worlds has legitimated any number of cruel acts against animals. The problem of Speciesism involves assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of the species to which they belong. The concept claims that animals should not be treated as an object or property in the light of their sentient qualities. And yet we assign different values to different animal species – dogs and cats are wrong to hurt and kill but not the same applies to chickens, pigs or cows. This moral hypocrisy is obvious when most of us would protest to the dog-meat trade found in various countries, because we culturally consider it wrong to hurt and eat dogs, but most wouldn’t consider the same attitude towards the so-called ‘meat-bearing animals’. Adams (2014) outlines our desire to separate meat eating and the animals in that we append the word ‘meat’ only when that form is not consumed in our culture [dog-meat, horse-meat] and rename the animal flesh either by dropping the reference to meat (chicken, not chicken-meat), or in the instance of cows by the location from which the portion of flesh comes from.

An influential vegan activist Ed Winters (2018) says that if you put an idea into society long enough, it becomes a societal norm, and if you keep fuelling it, over time it forms part of the society’s culture, then passed from generation to generation it becomes tradition, but “we need only look across the world right now to see that culture and tradition are not good benchmarks of morality.”

Conclusion

Through this post I wanted to build a contextual background of theory to inspire others towards positive social change. I have focused on the pressing issue of climate change and through my research into human-caused environmental issues, a strong link emerged between consumer habits and the damaging effects of animal agriculture on climate change.

Because I am also an activist for animal rights, I have decided to focus on both the ethical issue of animal farming and the scientific findings which suggest rapid change needs to be made in decreasing consumer demand for animal products. I also briefly introduced the topics of anthropocentrism and speciesism.

This project was an eye-opening journey for me, towards sustainability through rejection of conventional consumerism, which includes and prioritizes a vegan diet, or a diet with a minimal presence of animal produce. This finding comes as a result of numerous official sources commenting on the need for decreased global consumption of especially meat, milk, and dairy products in order to effectively combat climate change. This research shifted my lifestyle as well as my outlook on life, the society and my future career prospects as I aim to continue my activist escapades. To conclude, without any further ado, now is the most appropriate time to focus everyone’s attention on reducing our impact on climate change.