”My three goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
David 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 United Nations could become] a comprehensive Planetary Regime which could control the distribution of all natural resources.. and all food on the international market.”
John Holdren, Obama's "Science Czar"
”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.”
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies,
Author of “Population Bomb” and “Ecoscience”
“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.”
Professor Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
“The (climate) models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful.”
Dr. David Frame, Climate modeler at Oxford University
”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 the UN's IPCC
”It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
Paul Watson, Co-founder of Greenpeace
”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
”The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
Daniel Botkin, Emeritus Professor
”Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Maurice Strong, Founder of the United Nations Environmental Program
”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,
Author of “Population Bomb” and “Ecoscience”
”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
”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, United Nations
Rio Earth Summit
”Complex technology of any sort is an assault on the 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
”I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. it played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
John Davis, Editor of Earth First Journal
“…the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller, June, 1991, Bilderberg Conference in Baden, Germany
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…”
David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive member
“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, Climate change activist
“Global sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”
Maurice King,
Professor
“The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”
Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
”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
“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.”
David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First
“The Environmentalist’s Dream is an Egalitarian Society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less.”
Aaron Wildavsky, UC Berkeley
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster… to bomb us into the stone age, where we might live like Indians, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion, guilt free at last.”
Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States.”
John Holdren (1973), Currently Obama's ’'Science Czar'
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that ... global warming ... would fit the bill … we believe humanity requires a ... common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is a real one or ... one invented for the purpose.”
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
New York Times – November 18, 2007
... The IPCC chairman, RajendraPachauri, an engineer and economist from India, acknowledged the new trajectory. “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late,” Pachauri said. “What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.”
Moscow-Pullman Daily News – July 5,1989
“governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.”
Noel Brown, New York office of the United Nations Environment Program
The Vancouver Sun – May 11, 1982
Lack of such action would bring “by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nu-clear holocaust.”
Mostafa Tolba Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Program
Independent – October 20, 2009
"We have fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe ... Copenhagen must be such a time."
Gordon Brown speech
National Post – Summer 2009
… In the summer, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon insisted “we have four months to save the planet."
Guardian – November 3, 2009
"We only have months, not years, to save civilization from climate change."
Lester R Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute, and
author of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Guardian – July 8, 2008
100 months to save the Earth
There isn’t much time to turn things around. And today’s G8 announcements on climate change set the bar too low.
"The world’s climate experts say that that the world’s CO2 output must peak within the next decade and then drop, very fast, if we are to reach this sort of long term reduction. In short, we have about 100 months to turn the global energy system around. The action taken must be immediate and far reaching."
John Sauven Greenpeace
Guardian – January 18, 2009
‘We have only four years left to act on climate change – America has to lead’ ...
“We cannot now afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.”
Jim Hansen, climatologist
The Star – March 24, 2009
We have hours’ to prevent climate disaster … Recently, Prince Charles has said we have only an estimated 100 months.
"Unless the world comes together and negotiates a meaningful agreement to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions nine months from now – at the Copenhagen meeting of the United Nations climate conference in December – another 90 months won’t help. We have hours to act to avert a slow-motion tsunami that could destroy civilization as we know it."
"Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization."
Al Gore address at New York University Law School
September 18, 2006
“[Inaction will cause]… by the turn of the century [2000], an ecological catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”
Mustafa Tolba, 1982, former Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Program