Food for Thought #939

 

Controligarchs: Control freaks and billionaires who think the world is overpopulated

 Oligarchs are typically extremely wealthy people with a close relationship with the government. Recently we’ve heard the term “Big Tech oligarchs” referring to the wealthiest in Silicon Valley, Bruner explained.

What makes Controligarchs different from oligarchs is that they really do want to control every aspect of our lives.

“These people have like a god complex but on steroids,” Bruner said.

Of the 3,100 or so billionaires in the world, there’s only about 30 in this book [Controligarchs] … People like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, George Soros … and his son Alex Soros – these guys use their wealth to do not-so-great things,” Bruner told host of First Things Mark Bauerlein.

He crunched the numbers and found that these billionaires in some cases have doubled their net worth since the beginning of 2020. “Mark Zuckerberg went from $60 billion or so to almost $120 billion today through the pandemic because everyone was locked down, stayed at home and was scrolling through Facebook … and Jeff Bezos close to doubled his net worth,” he said.

It’s not surprising that while small businesses were closed and schools were closed etc. online businesses would soar. But what is surprising is Bill Gates and his takeover of farmland.

“They used the pandemic, in the words of Klaus Schwab the World Economic Forum founder, as an opportunity. The pandemic was an opportunity to rejigger society and ‘build back better’ in a ‘greener’ way,” Bruner said.

“People didn’t really understand in July 2020 when Klaus Schwab announced ‘The Great Reset’ what a pandemic had to do with climate change. But we’re starting to see that ‘climate change’ is just the next crisis they want to leverage as an opportunity to not just get richer but to construct systems of tyrannical control.”

The systems of tyrannical control, Bruner explained, include food control, energy control, electric vehicles, cell or mobile phones, the Internet of Things, smart cities and financial control....<<<Read More>>>...

Where did the myth of overpopulation come from?

Population alarmists who buy into the overpopulation myth believe that the world’s growing population will strip the Earth of its useable resources and will outpace innovation and rates of production.

This, they believe, will cause diminishing standards of living, more poverty, more hunger, famine and starvation, water shortages, pestilence, war and conflict over diminishing resources, the evisceration of wildlife habitats and environmental catastrophes (i.e. global climate change).

It’s a myth. So where did the overpopulation myth come from?

In its pilot episode of the POP 101 series, the Population Research Institute (“PRI”) gives a quick history of where the modern-day overpopulation myth came from.

PRI is a non-profit research organisation whose core values hold that people are the world’s greatest resource. Its goals are to educate on this premise, to expose the myth of overpopulation, and to expose human rights abuses committed in population control programs. Its growing, global network of pro-life groups spans over 80 countries.

After a brief history, PRI concluded: “We’re not overpopulated, do the maths.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Conspiracy theorists, you were right: The climate change agenda is the depopulation agenda, even though no one knows what the global population is

 On Tuesday, The Guardian published an article that admits the climate agenda is the depopulation agenda.

What is also notable is the article boldly claims the global human population is increasing by 200,000 people a day. The world’s population is a guesstimate, so how can they know it is increasing by that number? The truth is they don’t.

It simply isn’t possible to be sure exactly how many people there are on the Earth at any one time. If it is uncertain how many people there are, it is even less certain by how many people the population is increasing, if indeed it is increasing.

The Guardian was publicising a report by a group of “experts” who had written a declaration of a ‘Warning of a Climate Emergency’ in 2020 for “scientists” worldwide to sign. Their recent report was designed to solicit additional signatories.

How did The Guardian’s journalist miss that the “expert’s” report was merely activism? The article was written by a 20-year environmental reporting veteran who won this year’s press award for his “agenda-setting journalism on the climate crisis.” He didn’t overlook the activism; he was helping to set the agenda....<<<Read More>>>...

UN’s Pact for the Future, Planetary Commons and The Overpopulation Project

 The Pact for the Future, set to be adopted at the Summit of the Future on 22 September, calls for a significant overhaul of global governance in response to perceived existential risks.

A key component of this Pact is the planetary commons approach which emphasises the need for a global governing body to oversee the planet’s life-sustaining systems. Recommendations for the planetary commons approach came from a policy brief, ‘Towards a Planetary Commons Approach for Environmental Governance’, issued by the Global Challenges Foundation, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

The Summit of the Future event coincides with the 33rd anniversary of a controversial document, ‘The Initiative for Eco-92 Earth Charter’. This document was distributed at a conference in Des Moines by the United Nations Association of Iowa, in preparation for the UN’s environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro 1992. This disturbing document advocated for forceful population control measures and global resource management by a select group of powerful nations....<<<Read More>>>...