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VC asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Quotes from Global Warming Globalist... Must read!?

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“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.” - Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit

“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC

“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

“We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary.” - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” - Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” - Professor Maurice King

“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.” - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” - Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

“The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.” – Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview

“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!

“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” - Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor

“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.” - Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund

“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.” - Christopher Manes, Earth First!

“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” - David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The corrupt profit system we live in allows nothing to be ''sustainable''.

    Global Sustainability requires the intelligent distribution of the earth resources which we have in abundance. More than enough to cater for the near 7 billion people on the planet.

    Global Warming is not an issue, there is a natural climate change. Pollution of the planet is a real problem though. It is not our fault though, it is big government backed corporations that have policy which states, ''To maximize profit regardless of social or environmental cost''.

    Clean cheap abundant energy already exists but corruption in the Oil industry will never allow it happen along with the illusion of cost. Wind, Solar, Tidal, Wave, Geothermal could all power the world forever.

    There are very simple solutions to the problems of the world if people would just think ethically.

  • 5 years ago

    Interesting. I find it difficult to consider the facts when so many political factions post info on their websites. A close friend is a chemical engineer and has done a great deal of reading on the subject and believes there is anything but consensus. His take is that it is way more complicated than the scientific community knows. Isn't it amazing how some people call it a fact? I don't know of anything scientific that was not a fact one day and fiction the next. It's consistent in science. I believe we should act in a responsible manner to keep our planet clean because it's the right thing to do. No one is for pollution, and I think many people have become more aware of chemicals, etc that are simply harmful. Al Gore does not know more than any scientist, and he is making money from it. If he were a Republican, every liberal on here would blast him as a profiteer, so that is a reason it be skeptical. We'll see. The most important issue is oil dependency. We are enriching our enemy, and we need to become self sufficient.

  • 1 decade ago

    "It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace "

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    THAT right there is the truth of the matter.

    In other words let's see how much the sheeple will actually believe.

    The stuff about decreasing human numbers and this quote :

    "Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” - Professor Maurice King

    Are some scary/crazy things and anyone defending these quotes needs their head examined.

  • Being environmentally conscious is a noble thing that everyone should look to being, Dumping garbage into the ocean, clear cutting forests, dumping toxins into rivers and streams etc. is harmful to the environment and morally reprehensible. Putting on a/c in 90 degree heat, driving an SUV because you have 3 kids, eating red meat and using plastic bags for grocery shopping isn't, yet we as a society are punishing those for just trying to live their lives. This madness has got to stop.

    I've said it all along the agenda of the climatologists/environmentalists and those who subscribe to their theories isn't about stopping global warming, its about spreading socialist and liberal policies throughout the world. A few of those quotes prove me correct. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of recessionary economic growth, a halt in innovation & exploration and general political instability. They are no better than the abusers of the environment mentioned in the beginning.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sadly, Most of them still wont believe they're being conned by the Global Warming/Climate Change Alarmists...

    They're all pretty scary quotes, but the ones about reducing the population by 90-95% are the most frightening.

  • 1 decade ago

    It’s not sufficient to point out that there are kooks on the conservative side. What is important is to recognize that there are kooks on the liberal side, which many liberals will die rather than admit it.

    Why is anyone listening to Al Gore? He’s nothing but a profiteer looking to line his pockets. He defends his lifestyle by noting that he buys carbon offsets based on his excessive level of pollution emitted by his 20,000 S.F. mansion. Buying carbon offsets does not reduce pollution; it just rationalizes it.

    Great post. It will come in handy.

  • 1 decade ago

    Gee, I'm really looking forward to being anti-human, anti-science, and anti-consuming, aren't you?

    Living in a shoe box with a low flush toilet would be my idea of hell. But from the looks of it they would prefer us to become vegan nomads susceptible to every passing disease.

    Thank you for your post! You've pointed out some of the ridiculous fear mongering and anti-human sentiments of the far left environmentalist cause. They will not be happy until Westerners drastically reduce their population, industrialization, and capitalism itself. Did you know that Al Gore said that he wanted the internal combustion engine to be eradicated?

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, there really is no question. All these things show is that there are idiots on both sides of the global warming argument. I hope none of these people object publicly to Fox using the laughable "fair and balanced" slogan.

  • Abox5
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    1 decade ago

    Just wait and see how many tree-huggers you have either defending the statements or attacking you for posting them. That will be the really scary thing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Warm mongering

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