“Species out of control?”
Rio’s United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, held from June 3-14, 1992, was opened by the Conference’s secretary-general, Canadian-born Maurice Strong. “The human race,” Strong declared solemnly, is a “species out of control.”
Strong is a New Age devotee and a member of the Club of Rome, which predicted in 1972 that the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury by 1985, tin by 1987, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead and natural gas by 1993.
He and others are pushing the panic button once again just as they have been doing for 30 years and once again just as they have been doing for 30 years and once again they were successful in having their way, be it then in a round-about way.
Population not discussed
Officially, the Earth Summit kept the population issue off the agenda, much to the unhappiness of Britain’s Prince Charles, Prime Minister John Major and Anglican Primate Dr. George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, who all denounced the Church of Rome for being the culprit. What was the Church’s crime? The Vatican had insisted on defending the rights and freedoms of families.
A lifestyle of over-consumption in the West rather than population growth in poorer countries is the source of the ecological crisis, said the Vatican delegation.
World population growth “is neither rapid nor excessive” and cannot be cited as the chief cause of environmental damage, said delegate Bishop James Hughes of Camden, N.J.
“It is not a matter of counting heads and proclaiming that there are too many people. Rather it is a matter of adjusting lifestyles and global strategies to protect…and sustain human life as well as the global ecosystem.”
The link between population development and environmental concerns is “complex and tenuous,” he added, with “little certainty as to how these factors interrelate.”
The Vatican was successful in changing the wording to “the responsible planning of family size” in accord with human dignity and personal values, instead of the general reference to “family planning,” with its anti-family philosophy borrowed from the Planned Parenthood organization.
These textual revisions enraged the feminists and Planned Parenthood manipulators, whose own propaganda has brought them to a state of hysteria.
Canada
Needless to say, Canadian media played their part in keeping up the pressure. So-called over-population is one of David Suzuki’s favorite topics.
On May 30, the Globe and Mail published an article by one Deborah Jones, whose main theme was that “the globe’s resources simply cannot support the 5.3 million men, women and children who live on it” (“Too many riders on Spaceship Earth”). During the following weeks there was not a single letter to the editor contradicting this fabrication: perhaps people are getting tired of having to contradict the endless array of idiotic statements which are presented as gospel truth without having gospel authority.
In Toronto, Campaign Life Coalition named its end-of-June convention “Save the planet’s people” as a small token of opposition to those who would want to save the planet by killing its people.
But the gurus think otherwise. Tom Harpur of the Toronto Star and Vision TV pontificated that the Catholic Church’s stand was both “absurd and immoral,” and the Globe’s cartoonist had his own way of ridiculing the Vatican.
Ironically not a word was said about the declining populations in North America and Europe. On those continents every country has had a lower than replacement birth rate since the early seventies. This will bring disastrous economic and social consequences in the early decades of the twenty-first century. But no one will speak about that.
Agenda 21
Meanwhile, the anti-people environmentalists achieved part of their goal despite the fact that population issues were not debated at the Earth Summit.
Canada’s Brian Mulroney was the first of the Western dignitaries to sign the action plan called Agenda 21. Under the section devoted to population, Agenda 21 calls for a doubling of the $4.5 billion currently spent on contraception and so-called sex education programs to $9 billion, and that’s only the beginning.
World Bank
One of the leading anti-family, anti-child pressure groups behind the scenes is the World Bank under president Robert McNamara. Speaking at the U.N. on December 10, 1991, McNamara demanded that industrial and developing nations take immediate action to accelerate the reduction in population growth rates “in order to slow down environmental damage.”
He demands all sorts of new institutions and funding to carry out birth control, family planning (he means not to plan a family), and sex education in every country.
In fact the “Bank” has long since ceased to be a simple bank. It has branches such as a Population and Human Resources Department staffed by birth controllers and Planned Parenthood-minded personnel. It uses this Department for its anti-people propaganda and to tighten the economic screws on countries that do not set strict population control objectives.
As the pro-death mentality of Western planners inserts itself into every country of the world, the pro-life movement has an ever-growing obligation to fight back. But who is there to help us do battle?
