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4/5/2006 2:31 AM |
MEETING DOCTOR DOOM
By Forrest M. Mims III
Society for Amateur Scientists
2006
Original Link
There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University
in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a
student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I
suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress
(Taxodium distichum) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring
photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation
that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal...
But
there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically
significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a few hundred
members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a
standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the
elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola. The
speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka, the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
Something
curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of
the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the
auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. The camera
operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of the big camera
to the ceiling and slowly walked away.
This curious incident
came to mind a few minutes later when Professor Pianka began his speech
by explaining that the general public is not yet ready to hear what he
was about to tell us. Because of many years of experience as a writer
and editor, Pianka's strange introduction and the TV camera incident
raised a red flag in my mind. Suddenly I forgot that I was a member of
the Texas Academy of Science and chairman of its Environmental Science
Section. Instead, I grabbed a notepad so I could take on the role of
science reporter.
One of Pianka's earliest points was a
condemnation of anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a
privileged position in the Universe. He told a story about how a
neighbor asked him what good the lizards are that he studies. He
answered, “What good are you?”
Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, “We're no better than bacteria!”
Pianka
then began laying out his concerns about how human overpopulation is
ruining the Earth. He presented a doomsday scenario in which he claimed
that the sharp increase in human population since the beginning of the
industrial age is devastating the planet. He warned that quick steps
must be taken to restore the planet before it's too late.
Saving the Earth with Ebola
Professor
Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic
measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number,
he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to
reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
He
then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form
of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and
famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most
efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if
the population crisis is to be solved.
Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.
AIDS
is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His
favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population
is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal
and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did
not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the
virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim
that eventually liquefy the internal organs.
After praising the
Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over
the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90
percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”
With
his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor
Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some
of his statements now sat silent.
After a dramatic pause, Pianka
returned to politics and environmentalism. But he revisited his call
for mass death when he reflected on the oil situation.
“And the
fossil fuels are running out,” he said, “so I think we may have to cut
back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people.” So
the oil crisis alone may require eliminating two-third's of the world's
population.
How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be
saved? Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around
when the killer disease goes to work. He was born in 1939, and his
lengthy obituary appears on his web site.
When Pianka finished
his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of
polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or
boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause.
Questions for Dr. Doom
Then came the question and answer session, in which Professor Pianka stated that other diseases are also efficient killers.
The
audience laughed when he said, “You know, the bird flu's good, too.”
They laughed again when he proposed, with a discernable note of glee in
his voice that, “We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.”
After
noting that the audience did not represent the general population, a
questioner asked, "What kind of reception have you received as you have
presented these ideas to other audiences that are not representative of
us?"
Pianka replied, "I speak to the converted!"
Pianka
responded to more questions by condemning politicians in general and Al
Gore by name, because they do not address the population problem and
"...because they deceive the public in every way they can to stay in
power."
He spoke glowingly of the police state in China that
enforces their one-child policy. He said, "Smarter people have fewer
kids." He said those who don't have a conscience about the Earth will
inherit the Earth, "...because those who care make fewer babies and
those that didn't care made more babies." He said we will evolve as
uncaring people, and "I think IQs are falling for the same reason, too."
With
this, the questioning was over. Immediately almost every scientist,
professor and college student present stood to their feet and
vigorously applauded the man who had enthusiastically endorsed the
elimination of 90 percent of the human population. Some even cheered.
Dozens then mobbed the professor at the lectern to extend greetings and
ask questions. It was necessary to wait a while before I could get
close enough to take some photographs.
I was assigned to judge a
paper in a grad student competition after the speech. On the way, three
professors dismissed Pianka as a crank. While waiting to enter the
competition room, a group of a dozen Lamar University students
expressed outrage over the Pianka speech.
Yet five hours later,
the distinguished leaders of the Texas Academy of Science presented
Pianka with a plaque in recognition of his being named 2006
Distinguished Texas Scientist. When the banquet hall filled with more
than 400 people responded with enthusiastic applause, I walked out in
protest.
Corresponding with Dr. Doom
Recently I exchanged
a number of e-mails with Pianka. I pointed out to him that one might
infer his death wish was really aimed at Africans, for Ebola is found
only in Central Africa. He replied that Ebola does not discriminate,
kills everyone and could spread to Europe and the the Americas by a
single infected airplane passenger.
In his last e-mail, Pianka
wrote that I completely fail to understand his arguments. So I did a
check and found verification of my interpretation of his remarks on his
own web site. In a student evaluation of a 2004 course he taught, one
of Professor Pianka's students wrote, "Though I agree that convervation
[sic] biology is of utmost importance to the world, I do not think that
preaching that 90% of the human population should die of ebola [sic] is
the most effective means of encouraging conservation awareness." (Go here and scroll down to just before the Fall 2005 evaluation section near the end.)
Yet the majority of his student reviews were favorable, with one even saying, “ I worship Dr. Pianka.”
The
45-minute lecture before the Texas Academy of Science converted a
university biology senior into a Pianka disciple, who then published a
blog that seriously supports Pianka's mass death wish.
Dangerous Times
Let
me now remove my reporter's hat for a moment and tell you what I think.
We live in dangerous times. The national security of many countries is
at risk. Science has become tainted by highly publicized cases of
misconduct and fraud.
Must now we worry that a
Pianka-worshipping former student might someday become a professional
biologist or physician with access to the most deadly strains of
viruses and bacteria? I believe that airborne Ebola is unlikely to
threaten the world outside of Central Africa. But scientists have
regenerated the 1918 Spanish flu virus that killed 50 million people.
There is concern that small pox might someday return. And what other
terrible plagues are waiting out there in the natural world to cross
the species barrier and to which scientists will one day have access?
Meanwhile,
I still can't get out of my mind the pleasant spring day in Texas when
a few hundred scientists of the Texas Academy of Science gave a
standing ovation for a speaker who they heard advocate for the slow and
torturous death of over five billion human beings.
Forrest M.
Mims III is Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas
Academy of Science, and the editor of The Citizen Scientist. He and his
science are featured online at www.forrestmims.org and
www.sunandsky.org. The views expressed herein are his own and do not
represent the official views of the Texas Academy of Science or the
Society for Amateur Scientists.
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IMPORTANT FOLLOWUP:
PROFESSOR'S POPULATION SPEECHES UNNERVE SOME
HE SAYS HE'S ISSUING WARNING, BUT OTHERS SEE TALK OF PANDEMICS AS A THREAT
By Laura Heinauer
American-Statesman
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Original Link
University of Texas professor Eric Pianka's enemies say he advocates wiping out 90 percent of the population and that his seemingly giddy obsession with death and disease coupled with power over young minds is dangerous and disturbing.
His supporters say while his rhetoric may be shocking at times, he's just trying to get people to think about the consequences of uncontrolled population growth.
"I've found that it takes courage to tell people what they don't want to know," Pianka, 67, said Tuesday, two days after a newspaper story in Seguin's Gazette-Enterprise ignited a firestorm that has resulted in e-mail threats on Pianka's life.
The controversy surrounds comments made during two recent speeches in which Pianka discussed the need for population control and the impending disease pandemic that might well just take care of it. Some heard the comments as simply a warning. To others, however, it sounded like Pianka was advocating the use of deadly viruses to kill off millions of people.
Pianka, who calls the latter interpretation nonsense, says the whole thing has blown out of proportion. Many, however, seem to be taking his critics seriously. Pianka said he is scheduled to meet with FBI officials today.
"Someone has reported me as a terrorist," he said. "They think I'm forming a cadre of people to release the airborne Ebola virus into the air. That I'm the leader and my students are the followers."
There's no denying that Pianka, even at first glace, seems a little eccentric.
His office, which he has inhabited for 38 years, is cluttered with books, stacks of paper, bones and even a few beers. There's a photo of him dressed like British naturalist Charles Darwin. Scattered pictures of lizards and a copy of his semi-autobiography, "The Lizard Man Speaks," reveal his area of expertise -- lizards and evolutionary ecology. On his desk, he keeps a stuffed likeness of the Ebola virus that was sent to him by students who enjoyed his speeches.
He is particularly troubled by the recent explosion in the human population. He says we now take up about 50 percent of all livable space on Earth and that people should have no more than two children. Humans, and the way they've multiplied, are "no better than bacteria," he says.
Such talk makes Forrest Mims' skin crawl.
Mims, an author and amateur scientist who heard Pianka speak in early March before the Texas Academy of Science, said Pianka's remarks were degrading and that he was deeply disturbed by Pianka's comments comparing different diseases and their potential to decimate the human race. He's one of dozens of bloggers who have expressed displeasure with Pianka's point of view.
A Gazette-Enterprise reporter who heard Pianka speak Friday on the same topic quoted him saying disease "will control the scourge of humanity. We're looking forward to a huge collapse."
"It was 'Twilight Zone' material. It was like sitting in a science-fiction movie," Mims said Tuesday, adding that he is worried young doctors and scientists with access to deadly diseases might take literally what he claims is a call by Pianka to control population growth through the spread of disease. "The big concern is this professor is instilling this in the minds of students."
Pianka said only meant to warn about the potential for epidemics in the face of uncontrolled population growth. No recording or transcript of either that speech or another delivered last Friday at St. Edward's University in Austin was available. Pianka, who said his daughters are now worried about his and their safety, says his life has been turned upside-down by "right-wing fools."
Those roaming the corridors at Patterson Hall on the UT campus were very supportive of their teacher and colleague.
Fellow professor David Hillis said most people were sympathetic of the nationally renowned professor's plight. "There's a strong anti-science sentiment in the country right now," Hillis said. Pianka "has such a passion for life and diversity. How anyone could paint him as pro-death is unbelievable."
Tracy Heath, a doctoral student who has taken classes taught by Pianka, said he's known for living on a ranch, driving a Toyota Prius and raising bison. "He likes to captivate students with interesting pictures and stories," she said. "He's just trying to make waves to get people to think."
Pianka hopes this experience does just that. "We could be gods," he said. "We could be such great stewards of the Earth."
Oh, and one other thing -- "Maybe it will help me sell a few books."
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By Dieter Heinrich on
4/5/2006 6:55 PM |
| Wow, this was a shocker. I am one of the most vociferous environmentalist I know, and am plenty angry at what we are doing to the planet. But however much I may relate to his concern for the Earth, I think this man, Eric R. Pianka, should be in prison. If there is no law with which to arrest him, then a law should be passed before he speaks again. Very simply, it should be illegal to call for the death of anyone, especially innocent people, whether singly or in groups, whether identifiable groups or people at large, whether Americans or non-Americans, whether seriously or in jest. This, come to think of it, should be elevated to international law, where it might help deal with Islamist fanatics as well. Putting out a call to kill people is an incitement that increases the likelihood that people will actually die. It is a form of endangerment. The author of this article is spot on: what if some student who "worships" him actually acts on his proposal? What if this leads to a whole new category of psychos, people who feel righteously vindicated in rigging mass murder events for the good of the Earth? After all, even if we can't kill billions, these people might reason that killing a few thousand is a step in the right direction. |
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By Joseph Dillard on
4/5/2006 8:05 PM |
| Made me think about how little knowledge I have, let alone preparation, for a real serious viral outbreak like Ebola. On the one hand it reminds me of the bomb shelter builders in response to nuclear fear mongering during the '50's and early '60's. On the other hand, I think that there has got to be some practical information out there that would be useful to all NHNE readers. Information like, "How does one protect themselves and their [family] against a massive viral outbreak? What do you have to do? For how long do you have to do it? How do you know that you can safely take off the headset, the air filters, and the sexy hazard suit? Does the experience of the Israelis preparing their population for the Iraqi scuds about ten years back have any bearing?" Enquiring minds want to know... |
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By Dick Atlee on
4/6/2006 1:58 PM |
I want to thank David for posting the latest article (American Statesman, 4/5) on Dr. Pianka. The fact that he has right-wing bloggers on his case and has been called a terrorist and is being investigated by the FBI would, on the face of it, make me begin to question any attacks on him. But that article, quoting his colleagues and students about who he is and what his point is, makes it quite clear that he's the victim of what has become more and more common these days, a right-wing character assassination of someone with valid concerns, reminiscent more of the Salem witch trials than the McCarthy witch hunts.
Anyone who has read the Hot Zone, a true account of a very near miss of an outbreak of a close relative of Ebola, probably has had seared into their memory the closing statement of the author about the threat of viral pandemic. He pointed out that as the human population has increased and pushed ever further into parts of the world that have not been previously touched by man, the chance of encountering previously unknown dangerous disease vectors increases. And that the human population is just a huge hunk of meat, growing larger and just waiting to be eaten (a very literal image in the case of Ebola).
The poet Robinson Jeffers, in the first half of the last century, was a strong lover of nature who commented in many powerful ways on mankind's being a kind of dangerous blot on a landscape that existed before him and would exist after him, iin spite of him. In some ways, he seemed to welcome the idea.
It appears that Dr. Pianka is, like these two authors and probably many others, telling it like it is. They are clearly all terrorists, Cassandras whose warnings or commentary are to be twisted and blotted out by people who cannot open their eyes to the world. Ever since I first heard of the H5N1 virus and its potential for pandemic, the possibility of its acting as a global "cleansing agent", personally frightening though it is for me, has always been an image in my mind. I've mentioned it to people, and no one has assumed I meant to advocate its "use". Why are we seeing this now with Dr. Pianka?
We are trying to store scores of tons of million-year high level radioactive waste in a leaky geologic formation in an earthquake zone. We are moving to up our production of plutonium. We are moving toward a global warming tipping point that will likely freeze or desertify large parts of the globe and submit the rest to violent storms, extinguishing thousands of species about whose role and importance we know virtually nothing. We are wiping out life in the oceans. We are moving ever closer to creating self-replicating nanobots that could themselves replace us. And one group of us is trying to take military control of space to be able to control the rest of the world and develop a way to escape to some other planet.
Is there a better description of someone filling six chambers of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then putting a gun to his/her head? And when Dr. Pianka tries to point out the significance of the situation, we are supposed to get upset about HIM, and accuse him of trying to pull the trigger of the gun?
I think we need to be VERY careful before we jump to conclusions about people who are attacked in this way. It happened in Germany in the 30's, and under many other abhorrent regimes around the world since then. Now that we have terrorism laws that cover an incredibly wide range of behaviors, I think we need to be very careful of how we react to situations like Dr. Pianka's... |
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By Charles Ostman on
4/6/2006 6:39 PM |
We, as a species, are being driven toward an evolutionary event horizon that has, for many years, been seen as a theoretical boundary point, but now that threshold is quickly coming into view. Truth does indeed become manifest over time.
Dr. Pianka's statements, no doubt, will push every conceivable emotional button known to the human condition, but I would humbly suggest that his thesis was borne out of a sincere concern for a potential outcome of an evolutionary bifurcation that could occur well within the next century (or sooner), and the courage to present this theoretical projection.
All living systems, both as observed in nature, and those modeled, do generate and respond to certain process dynamics which are constant. The most fundamental of these process dynamics is the balance (or lack thereof) between available life support resources, and the pace of accelerated population growth.
At a certain critical mass threshold, an irreversable bifrucation indeed becomes manifest: a willing choice can be made by the organism or societal system in question to achieve and maintain that balance, or the choice will be made for them, usually with catastrophic consequences for the organism in question.
I would submit the concept that the planet herself is a sort of living system, perhaps as the Gaia model, and under extreme duress, will respond with her own version of a "planetary immune system".
We can decide to willingly implement some form of maintained population stability compromise (which will require radical changes to various religious and cultural paradigms), or have the "corrective measures" thrust upon us.
I would venture to suggest that if we, as a species, are simply incapable of collectively agreeing to a more balanced approach to population management, then there will be a corrective measure - and we should be so lucky that only 90% of the human population perishes as a consequence
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By Bonnie Willow on
4/6/2006 9:23 PM |
During the first presidential "election" that resulted in George Bush claiming office, Ralph Nader ran with a harsh intention. He felt that we were all far too complacent about the condition of politics in America, and thought we needed to be woken up. He knew that his presence might well cause Bush to take office, and it certainly contributed. Over the ensuing years, I've alternately cursed and praised Nader, for knowing what he was talking about. Things WERE worse in politics than the general public realized, and we ARE reaping the consequences of our collective complacency.
I think Dr. Pianka going down a similar road. People recognize that overpopulation isn't so good, but far too little is being done, too late. His extreme and gruesome illustrations of the possible cures for the condition are finally getting people's attention!
I do think he needs to be very careful how he presents these illustrations to students and the public, for the very reason that he may have made his point too clearly. This society has many unbalanced copycats and people ready and willing to commit a crime just so they can feel some sense of life in their frustrating existence. On the other hand, this society is full of people ready to point the blame for their actions onto someone else.
What it all comes down to, in my view, is that he is using extreme and gripping illustrations of horror in order to wake people up to a serious problem that needs attention. He's walking a razor's edge here... speaking a vitally important message in a potentially harmful way. He has my best wishes for a positive teaching outcome, when the hubbub dies down. But that may not happen. |
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By Christina on
4/6/2006 9:50 PM |
As unflattering as the subject of Dr. Pianka's lecture might be for us to hear, the fact is, there are way too many humans on this lovely planet. Most of the ills currently besieging our species (and so many other species as well) can be traced back, directly or indirectly, to overpopulation. We are eating our world, because we refuse to control our rate of reproduction.
Does anyone remember the ZPG movement of the 60s? We got distracted with abortion and in vitro fertilization and all the rest of it, but the bottom line remains the same - we cannot continue to increase our population at our current rate. The Earth cannot sustain us.
I'm not in favor of anyone deliberately killing anyone, and I don't think Dr. Pianka is either; that whole line of thinking is a red herring. It reminds me of the furor that erupted a decade or so ago when a scientist, making essentially the same point as Dr. Pianka, described our species as spreading "like a cancer" over the earth - the howls were deafening! Who, US? A CANCER? No way! Why, we’re da bomb! The top of the food chain! The pinnacle of evolution!
The result of our culture’s relentless, millennia-long suppression of women now comes home to roost. In the natural world, females are in charge of “sexual selection” – they choose their mates, saying yes to this male, and no to that one. The systematic disempowerment of women by the patriarchal judaeo-christian philosophy that turned women into property and stripped them of their reproductive rights has short-circuited the natural system which has served our species so well for so long. It persists to this day, as evidenced by the movement to re-criminalize abortion, and the billions invested in “fertility treatments” while research into safe, affordable birth control languishes for lack of funding. Instead of listening to the body, which dictates that it’s better to have one or two children who are healthy, happy, and wanted, our society insists upon listening to a patriarchal religious system that lashes us to produce more and more souls for Jesus (and more money for all those preachers). We are literally breeding ourselves into extinction.
Look around you - look at what happens when other species overbreed; disease, genetic mutations, aggressive and destructive behavior. Does that list remind you of anything? Perhaps THE EVENING NEWS? It is the height of arrogance to this that this cause-and-effect sequence applies to everyone but us.
When there are too many trees, disease erupts and wipes out most of the forest, which opens up the sky for the young ones coming along behind; there will be fewer trees, but each one will be healthy and productive. When there are too many rabbits, the foxes breed like mad and are all fat and happy; when the rabbit population diminishes, so does the number of fox kits. This is the natural balance between predator and prey; everyone on this planet eats someone else to live, and is in turn eaten by someone else eventually. Humans have systematically eliminated all their predators, whose job it is, with us, as with every other species on this planet, to keep the “herd” strong by weeding out the weak, the sick, and the non-viable among us. The only predators left on this planet currently strong enough to take us out en masse are viruses, and so it comes as no surprise to me to see the explosion of “new” diseases like AIDS and ebola and avian flu and antibiotic resistant pneumonia. It is a natural response from the natural world – time to prune back the Two Leggeds. If we're clever enough to elude one, another will spring up, and another, and another, until our species has been reduced to a number that is sustainable on this planet.
Humans are not the center of the universe; we are not the pinnacle of creation. The whole of existence is not “about us.” It is about ALL of us. Humans do not sit in the center of the Circle of Life; we are but one of the many species who sit around the rim, all of us equal in sacredness and importance. If humans continue to multiply and destroy and befoul our environment, killing off more and more other forms of life, one of two things will happen: We will either alter our environment to the point where it becomes toxic to us, or the planet will rise up in some form and slap our species back to a manageable size.
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By Ruth S. Lyons on
4/7/2006 2:27 AM |
I think Forrest M. Mimms 111 (is that a real name?) over-reacted a tad. Pianka is not advocating anything heinous, like genocide using Ebola or H5N1. He's merely pointing out that we are out of control, and obviously can't control ourselves, therefore it's only a matter of time before a pandemic steps up to the plate to do it for us.
Nature always wins. Good thing too. Humans, as Christina (above) so eloquently writes, are not the centre of the universe. We really need to stop being so human-centric (anthrocentric?).
Perhaps Mr. Mimms should be similarly investigated for stirring up fear where there wasn't any before, just because Pianka put forth a message he didn't want to hear. ?!
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By E. van Loon on
4/7/2006 9:00 AM |
Cynicism !00:
I first envisioned humanity as a scourge on the planet while living north of sixty degrees' latitude. Perched high up on the plump fruit that is our planet, one could just imagine the fluorescent mold of "homo technologus" creeping westward and northward.
Yuck. We were part of the mold, but...yuck.
Up there, where we had an average of nine square miles apiece to live on, but knew to the tenth of a degree of coldness how sensitive the land is to human presence, with its roads and explosions and belching heat monsters, post-modern society stood as a vague, befogged monster at the back of our minds. If we committed no eco-sin, no doubt it would fade away.
Then I moved to Hawaii. No fog obscuring the monster here. It's splayed all over the beach, chomping noisily on oil-soaked potato chips while snapping its fat fingers at a brown-skinned waiter who supplies alcohol and electricity for the visitor's laptop in roughly equal proportions.
You really have to work at being a good citizen in Hawaii--the locals hate "haoles" but commit more eco-sin than the newcomers, in some ways. This is no surprise, because right living is all an uphill battle on small islands.What the hell do you do with a thousand junker cars a year on an island fifity miles long, after all?
Then came SARS. Overall kill rate, about sixteen per cent. Rate for the older folks, more than fifty per cent. Young people survive; old farts die. How convenient.
Then a fellow student told me a story of how she had come across an esoteric periodical in a motel back in 1978, left behind by a peculiar kind of insider. The magazine, published by a government entity, contained articles about the necessity for, and existence of, a depopulation program.
Shiver!
And also, duh!
Then some idiot published an article in the Vancouver Sun about what might happen if one crop-duster flew across that lovely city casually spreading anthrax instead of DDT.
If you build it, they will come. Hello-o-!
Then Katrina blew up our moral standards. Who gives a darn about those folks, anyway? Is this racial profiling by attrition? Lethargy? Two guesses on the color of skin of the somebodies who are happy about Katrina fall-out.
Of course, a few thousand here or there don't make no never mind of a difference. Even the 2004 tsunami hardly made a dent in the world population at 120,000-some dead humans. War is more helpful, with up to a quarter million dead in Iraq, and with Darfur, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sudan collapsing in mass murder. Hey, why stop a process that in the end we''re bound to consider a blessing upon the earth?
Only disease can turn the tide, that's clear. We're just going to have to steel ourselves to this every now and then if we want to maintain a viable planet, aren't we?
It's like that insidious exercise popular in encounter groups four decades ago: there are sixteen people in a lifeboat and one has to go or the rest will perish--how to decide who will be the first to be tossed over as shark bait?
That's easy, isn't it? The guy with all the food. Keep the food; dump him.
That "guy" might be the baby-boomer generation. We're so inconvenient, after all. We own all the property and cash and we''re about to squander it on health care for a bunch of rotting bodies past their prime. What a waste!
No doubt some wackos will also have fun targeting populations they have the luxury of hating, like lesbians or gays or guys or lawyers or abortionists or women or people with another color of skin. There's nothing new in that. Get ready for Smallpox Trading Blankets II. Urban legend? Who will ever know?
Think I'll pass on the Assisted-Living Complex for now. It's safer to live in a well-mixed community where everyone knows everyone and the point is, we're all here for the community.
The most horrible scenario you can imagine is possible if not probable. How to live out a good life in these terrible times is a huge question for every one of us, especially those protecting children.
Or grandchildren. Mine will see no TV before age seven. They'll eat raw food. They won't get vaccinations.They'll read a lot of books and play a lot of music. They'll live in a truly mixed neighborhood where everybody knows everybody, far from the nearest nuclear plant. They'll have to help make the energy to supply our needs. They'll have a dog and a cat and a goat and some chickens and a garden where I'll crack the whip as they help prepare our food for the winter.
For a long, dark winter. |
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Re: Reader Comments on "Meeting Doctor Doom" |
By rudenski on
7/24/2006 12:24 PM |
Dr. Pianka is only the left side of the coin that wants to murder billions of human beings. The right side is doing a bang-up job of killing its own billions with depleted uranium, murder through tainted or mercury filled vaccinations and flu shots, missles, bombs, the AIDS(Virus) et al Dr. Boyd Graves, chemo-therapy, right wing"anti-union" death squads, CIA heroin/cocaine/crack cocaine drug running, and weather modification. Who needs Ebola to kill off the Africans and Asians in the world when Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, and the Henry Kissinger's of the world can finish off humanity without the enviro-fascists or genocidal maniacs like Dr. Pianka?
If you think the answer to Pianaka's left-wing created weaponized airborne Ebola virus is a vaccination, think again. Vaccinations may be the single most dangerous form of covert sterilization and extermination in the world today. Contamination or cross contamination of vaccinations is a major vector for HIV in Africa today. Contaminated vaccines could be "the" most deadly form of biological warfare that mankind has ever devised. We all trust the scientists and doctors who make vaccinations don't we? Scare us all with the Pianka's of the world and we all go line up like sheep in lines to get a flu shot laced with mercury(the second most deadly substance on earth-after uranium) and who knows what other deadly animal blood or some other potentially deadly toxin we allow scientists and doctors to inject straight into our blood? It is not about left and right wing anything really. It is about seriously twisted science and men who have an unprescedented capacity for greed and murder that have C.E.O., Prince or P.H.D beside their name and almost unlimited power to kill us all if they so choose...and they already chose... Guess what? They don't give a damn about human life and they will eat their own young so they sure don't care if they take the pensions away from Americans or trigger nerological reactions in the brains of 1 in every 100 children born in America creating a whole generation of vaccine damaged children with Autism Spectrum disorders, ADD/ADHD and other neurological health issues with Thimerisol(Mercury) preservatives, or mix in a bit of mercury in in Amalgam fillings of hundreds of millions of unsuspecting believers in "better living through chemistry." Gosh! You would think that Darwinian scientists had it in to kill us all off all along?
Dr. Pianka is just trying to get in on the action so he he can make a buck for what scientists who created Phizer and Merck have been doing since before World War II. The likes of diabolical Nazi scientists who created and sposored human extermination programs in death camps in Austria and Germany are now in charge of same Pharmaceutical companies that made the gas for killing millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, retarded, or just homeless people to get rid of people who were "useless eaters." Left or right, we may all end up on the "useless eater" list one day. You believe scientists are honest when you let them pump over 72 toxins into your child's blood by the time they are two years old who were mass murderers just a short beyond a generation ago. Get free vaccines if you are a pregnant mothers or older Americans and everything is going to be okay?
I consider myself to be an independent think and alternative medicine researcher. I also believe in God. My God does not hate people like Dr. Pianka and he doesn't hate Muslims, or blacks in Africa, or homosexuals, or anyone else for that matter. I think that my God is bigger than Pfizer, The Pope, Pat Robertson, Billy Graham and George Bu$h but the truth of the matter is that science is "God" to the men who are running the world today and when they win, everyone loses.
Depleted Uranium will kill more people every year with a half-life of millions of years but you wil only see a blurb on page five of your local paper once a year and never hear a peep about it on Fox News. Vaccinations will kill children with the false diagnosis of SIDS, give millions of children in Africa HIV, and give America a lost generation of neurologically damaged children but we keep on believing science is "God.' My God is "love" not science. I died about 23 years ago and went to heaven...and and returned to tell the tale. Meeting God made me realize that loves us more than we can ever know. God really is love. I have been ramblig now for a while...but if I didn't say that there is better place out beyond the beyond, a place bigger than a Christian, Jewish or Muslim heaven then I would not have an answer to why Christians , Jews, Muslims and scientists
all want to kill each other but because I met God, I figured it out. They just don't know my God who is love. Love is the answer really. God is love. If you figure that out then the rest of the puzzle pieces fall into place. If it ain't love it ain't God. Love will win the day. Give love to everyone in the world..."no exceptions." Love is all you get to take to the next life and it is who you are in heaven. Get as much of you into heaven as you can. You will never regret it. |
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