Was a pretty interesting video, but I don’t see this man talking directly about climate. It’s more an economic assumption about how many humans there can be on earth. The auther says the world population needs to come down, so it’s not improving anything if Germans have no babies, but Africans have 10, the total is still increasing fast
That anthropogenic climate change is now of mainstream concern has, paradoxically, a lot to do with an oil man. Maurice Frederick Strong, fossil-fuel magnate, was the founding executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Maurice Strong was no stranger to skepticism and criticism as a result of his lifelong involvement in the oil industry, juxtaposed with his heavy ties to the environmental issues. Some[who?] wonder why an "oilman" would be chosen to take on such coveted and respected environmental positions.
He was a great visionary, always ahead of our times in his thinking. He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board. Without him, the Forum would not have achieved its present significance.
In both cases the dire warnings were just useful lies, as the Club of Rome openly admitted in 1991 in a book titled The First Global Revolution, co-authored by co-founder Alexander King. In the intro to Part II, he quoted French futurist Gaston Berger: “We must no longer wait for tomorrow; it has to be invented.” So invent they did: King noted that the end of the Cold War resulted in the sudden absence of traditional enemies against which support for global government could be justified. He wrote, “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that … the threat of global warming … would fit the bill.”
“For more than a century, ideological extremists, at either end of the political spectrum, have seized upon well-publicized incidents, such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal, working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists,' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
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u/stalematedizzy 5d ago edited 5d ago
In case you didn't know
This looks to have been the plan from the get go
Here's the final part of our interview series with Dennis Meadows, co-author of The Limits to Growth (1972) – a book/report that laid that foundation under modern environmental thinking