The Leaves in Winter (61 page)

“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….”

Thomas Ferguson

Former official in the U.S. State Department Office of Population Affairs

“It is obvious that if in the future racial qualities are to be improved, the improving must be wrought mainly by favoring the fecundity [fertility] of the worthy types... At present, we do just the reverse. There is no check to the fecundity of those who are subnormal...”

Theodore Roosevelt

Former U.S. President

“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.”

B.F. Skinner

Behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher

“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”

Arnold
Joseph Toynbee

British author and historian

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men. The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”

John P. Holdren, Barack Obama’s science advisor

“The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

David Rockefeller

Grandson of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil

 
“No human is genuinely 'carbon neutral,' especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation.”

United Nations Population Fund report

“There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen

April 28, 1997, Testimony before Congressional Committee

“No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood.”

Margaret Sanger

Founder of Planned Parenthood

In her proposed
The American Baby Code
, intended to become law

“The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.”

John Guillebaud

Professor of Family Planning

University
College
London

“The elderly are useless eaters.”

Henry Kissinger

Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State

Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Member Club of
Rome

“I mean, sure, we have great respect for the human species .... But evolution can be just damn cruel, and to say that we've got a perfect genome and there's some sanctity to it, I'd just like to know where that idea comes from. It's utter silliness. And the other thing, because no one really has the guts to say it, I mean, if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we do it?”

James Watson

Molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist, co-discovered the structure of DNA

“Looking past the near-term concerns that have plagued population policy at the political level, it is increasingly apparent that the long-term sustainability of civilization will require not just a leveling-off of human numbers as projected over the coming half-century, but a colossal reduction in both population and consumption.”

Ken Smail

Professor in the Anthropology Department

Kenyon
College
in
Ohio

“This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.”

Eric R. Pianka

Professor of Biology at the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin

“…in early times, it was easier to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill than to control....”

Zbignew Brzezinski

Former National Security Advisor

Chatham
House Address, November 17th, 2008

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

Henry Kissinger

Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State

Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Member Club of
Rome

Quoted in New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

“I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience.”

Al Gore

Former U.S. Vice President

Nobel Peace Price Recipient

“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, Club of
Rome

The First Global Revolution, pgs 104-105, 1991

“Eventually, it seems evident, a general system, whether private or public, whereby all personal facts, biological and mental, normal and morbid, are duly and systematically registered, must become inevitable if we are to have a real guide as to those persons who are most fit, or most unfit to carry on the race.”

Havelock
Ellis

British physician, psychologist, author, and social reformer

The Task of Social Hygiene

"As an advocate of birth control I wish … to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation…. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."

Margaret Sanger

Founder of Planned Parenthood

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

 
Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.

 
Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature.”

Georgia Guidestones

Anonymously commissioned

Three of the “New 10 Commandments”

Elbert County
,
Georgia
,
USA

“This planet is on course for a catastrophe. The existence of Life itself is at stake.”

Dr Tim Flannery

Research Scientist, Professor at
Macquarie
University
,

Chairman of the
Copenhagen
Climate Council

M. C. Miller
is the author

of the epically bizarre apocalyptic spectacle

PW2
2012: The End of the Beginning
,

the
Sino-American
techno-thriller
Islands
of Instability
,

and the seriously zany black comedy
Uberwoot!

He lives in the
Pacific Northwest
with his wife Deborah Joy

and enjoys hiking, kayaking, food adventures in the

kitchen and what-if speculations about the near future.

 

www.mcmillerbooks.com