Important 2009 Times article confirms the uber-rich think over-population is humanity's biggest problem...
...and it's SO important that they need to subvert national governments to save us.
(This is an exact reproduction of this Twitter thread of mine. Access the article itself by clicking the picture above - for Times subscribers - or via this PDF:)
Here’s an article from 2009 reporting on a meeting of a group of billionaires. To me, its significance lies in what these individuals think the limits of their influence should be and how they should exercise power.
They met secretly, instituted by Gates, to discuss how to to join forces to get over those pesky religious and political objections to their plans to “save the world”.
Some high profile names were there.
They discussed what they regarded as important or sensitive stuff, though this just seems to me to be delusions of grandeur on display here.
It’s clear that if they didn’t at the outset, by the end they regarded overpopulation as issue number 1. Because the richest man in the world told them to think that.
We can’t have politicians who believe in traditional values, can we?
A consensus emerged…
On the topic of voting and the democracy it implies, these people don’t think there’s a need to work with those irritating elected governments, obviously:
In a rare moment of self-insight, they note that maybe not everyone will be totally on board.
“Let’s try to keep this amongst ourselves then, should we?” (Is that their secret language: “rich to rich”?)
As I said, whether they’ve actually done anything to implement these objectives isn’t the point, which is that people whose sole qualification is being very rich think they can and should secretly plan to change the world towards their vision of it, without regard for what anyone else thinks - inc governments.
This is especially scary considering how concentrated and centralized wealth now is, and how powerful such a few media companies (and hence people) are in terms of influencing the way we think and the news we see.
Could there be any more apt a postscript to this article than this:
My guess is that one reason is makes sense that billionaires bereft of defensible principles/moral come to think of overpopulation as a threat and problem is because they fear not having enough and losing what they have.
“Easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle…” etc.
The really scary thing that Jonathan grasped perfectly is that wholly unqualified rich people took it upon themselves to agree there are too many of us useless eaters
There’s an additional really scary thing that wasn’t mentioned.
That is that a large proportion of the useless eaters themselves believe there are too many of us useless eaters.
I regret to tell you that, over the last few years, half a dozen people have written to me, sombrely advising me that “the reason all this nonsense is occurring is that earth is beyond its carrying capacity and the population must be cut back, or else there’ll be a collapse, unrest, war and mass migration…”
Their opinion is an uninformed as the thicker members of the “Good Club” (that we’re not in).
Unfortunately, we have in my view been subjected to decades of programming lies, courtesy of the Club of Rome & others.
This marries up well with the decades of lies about global climate boiling change and also about the imminent threat of “pandemics” (that have never happened & I doubt ever can happen).
Had comments been allowed, my belief is that most readers would have been outraged. The odd Karen would have remarked that “It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it”.
I believe we’ve got to seed the truth (if you believe it is true) that we don’t have an overpopulation problem, while continuing to expose the lies about pandemics and climate.