Climate Change as an Excuse for Population Control and Eugenics

I'm not really all that interested in the whole global warming issue, but I am very interested in the disturbing and dangerous ideas of the anti-humanistic, culture of death, eugenics and population-control crowd. It turns out that there are significant links between the two issues. Here is a story by Paul Mulshine writing in a newspaper in liberal New Jersey of all places in which he quotes William Happer, a Princeton physicist who studies the interaction of radiation with gases and the greenhouse effect.

He is pretty outspoken on the links:

"Happer is a professor of physics at Princeton who has spent a lifetime studying the interactions of radiation with gases, a primary force behind the greenhouse effect. I gave him a call the other day to ask his reaction to the those e-mails originating from the University of East Anglia in England.

"This has done a lot of damage to the reputation of science and the climate-science business in particular," Hopper said. "I hope it is not transferred to all areas of science."The e-mails revealed what amounted to a political campaign to promote the notion of anthropogenic global warming. This didn’t surprise Happer. He served as the director of energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy from 1990 to 1993. In that capacity, he supervised all of DOE’s work on climate change. Happer said he quickly realized the climate scientists were different from typical scientists."They were a strange group of people, very politicized," he said. "They would look at you and you could see them thinking, ‘What sort of answer does he want?’ "The answer the climate scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ended up giving has been immortalized in that notorious "hockey stick" graph. In testimony to Congress earlier this year, Happer described his initial reaction to that graph."I could hardly believe my eyes," he testified. "Both the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period were gone, and the newly revised temperature of the world since the year 1000 had suddenly become absolutely flat until the last hundred years, when it shot up like the blade on a hockey stick."We all learned about the Medieval Warm Period in grammar school, Happer noted. That was a warming period during which Greenland was literally green, and the Vikings colonized and farmed it. As for the Little Ice Age, that describes a period around the turn of the 19th century when the Thames River in London regularly froze over in winter.

Whatever caused those huge fluctuations, it wasn’t carbon dioxide, he said. Solar activity and changing ocean currents provide much more persuasive explanations. So why the emphasis on CO₂?

Simple. "If you want to get rid of CO₂, you want to get rid of people," he said.We humans are CO₂ machines. Every breath you exhale has more than 100 times the carbon dioxide of the air you inhaled. And almost everything you do generates CO₂ in one way or another.

In Happer’s opinion, the carbon-control movement is really a population-control movement. He traces it back through the "Population Bomb" movement of the late 1960s all the way to the 18th-century writings of Thomas Malthus."

The population bomb was a real bomb: its apocalyptic warnings of mass famine in the 70's and 80's never came true and yet that did nothing to alter the opinion of Paul Erlich and the other "true believers" in the population reduction movement. Nothing ever could ever alter their opinion because it is not based on facts, but on a gut feeling, a religion, a mystical belief that Nature is supreme and Man is just a parasite on Nature. They essentially hate their own species and they want to see the human population diminished and perhaps even eliminated. That would be the logical outcome of their views.

You know, it is hard to think of what to say to someone who thinks humans are a cancer on the planet, instead of the crown of God's creation. It really is. Where does one start?

As a Christian, I believe that Man is the crown of God's creation and that we have the responsibility to care for the world as stewards of God who made it and continues to own it. But the creation was made especially so humans could have a place to live and worship because human beings are the only creatures made in the very image and likeness of God.

Any ideology or religion that begins with Nature worship and scorns Man as a cancer is under the judgment of the Gospel and has no place in Christian thinking. There is no doubt that elements of the culture of death today march under the banner of global warming. That in itself does not necessarily mean that the whole issue can be dismissed. The evidence must be considered dispassionately for only that way can we settle the truth of the matter. But it seems clear to me that certain elements of the movement pushing global warming as a terrible, imminent disaster are doing so in order to advance their anti-human agenda. They did it is the 70's with famine and they are doing it today with climate change.

If the earth is ever proven not to be warming beyond natural cyclical patterns, then we can be sure that even with the death of the AGW movement, the anti-humanistic, reduce the population, culture of death movement will continue marching on regardless.