Wednesday-Thursday blog
I believe quite a few people don’t understand why our rulers are trying to wreck our economies and impoverish us all while, of course, ensuring they are protected from their own destructive policies.
I propose that part of the explanation may lie in the fact that they have a Malthusian view of the world. They believe that life is a ‘zero sum game’ – the more we in the West consume and the better our lives, then the poorer will be the lives of the majority of the human population who live in poverty or in conditions close to poverty.
When you have this mindset, the solution is obvious – reduce the standard of living in the wealthy developed world. The way to do this is through fear and control and the supposed ‘climate apocalypse” provides the perfect vehicle. Here are just a few quotes from the document I linked to in my previous blog:
Generate fear
Quote by Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
Quote by Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency: “We routinely wrote scare stories…Our press reports were more or less true…We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.”
Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: “The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, and large CO2 producer: “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
Quote by Stephen Schneider, Stanford Univ., environmentalist: “That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
Quote by Sir John Houghton, lead editor of first three IPCC reports: “If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster.
Create a sense of urgency
Quote by Steve Sawyer, identified as the “political director” of Greenpeace International: “Without urgent measures to rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the possibility of limiting the temperature rise below a dangerous level will have disappeared within a decade.”
Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, and large CO2 producer: “We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”
Quote by Jim Leape, the man in charge of the head office of the World Wildlife Fund: “We are running out of time. We know that if we continue to rely on fossil fuels we will face a future of worsening air pollution and an increasingly inhospitable climate.”
Quote by Greenpeace spokesperson: “we are simply running out of time.”
Quote from a Worldwatch Institute press release: “the world is running out of time to head off catastrophic climate change…now is the time to act.”
Quote from The Environmental Forum: “We are running out of time.”
Quote from Time magazine: “we are rapidly running out of time to cap carbon emissions.”
Quote by James Hansen, the famous climate scientist warned (in 2008 & 2013): “we’re running out of time.”
Quote by Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist legend in his own mind: “we are now running out of time.”
Quote from alarmist, Australian professor Barry Brook: “This is especially true for climate change and environmental sustainability, where we are perilously close to running out of time.”
Quote by Secretary General of the United Nations tells business leaders at summit: “running out of time” to make climate change a strategic priority.
Quote by Ian Bruce, a climate change specialist for David Suzuki Foundation: “We’re running out of time and we need to change the mass way of thinking.”
Quote by a co-director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition: “I know we’re running out of time.”
Quote by David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University: “Rather than seeing models as describing literal truth, we ought to see them as convenient fictions which try to provide something useful.”
Quote by Richard Benedik, former U.S./UN bureaucrat: “A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.”
Climate is the excuse – control is the goal
Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Quote by Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
Quote from the UN’s Own “Agenda 21”: “Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
Quote by Naomi Klein, anti-capitalism, pro-hysteria advocate of global warming: “So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system…”
Quote by Club of Rome: “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….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely 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.”
Quote by Maurice Strong, a billionaire elitist, primary power behind UN throne, and large CO2 producer: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Quote by Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party USA: “Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”
Quote by Daphne Muller, green-progressive-liberal writer for Salon: “This moment requires we the people to rethink democracy as a global mechanism for enacting policy for and by the planet.”
Quote by Christiana Figueres, leader of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”
David Craig, on July 28th, 2025
