Jurriaan Maessen
The UK based population control advocacy group Population Matters felt compelled to respond to the latest controversy surrounding their patron David Attenborough, who recently stated humans are a “plague on the earth”.
In a press release posted on its website, the organization expresses support for their beloved patron’s statements, concurring that mankind may be viewed as a plague upon the planet- not to be understood as a disease as such, but rather as the way this disease spreads.
“What did he (Attenborough) mean? Surely he does not mean that we are a disease? More probably, he was thinking of a plague of locusts, which consumes all that it sees, and then dies off.”
“That analogy is apt.”, the statement continues. “Human numbers have doubled in the last fifty years to seven billion. Natural habitats, wildlife and fish stocks are falling around the world, due to development, overexploitation and climate change. Resources, too, are being steadily depleted, whether that be water sources, fertile land, fossil fuels or key minerals such as fertilizers.”
This kind of thinking was effectively commincated in the first Matrix film:
In their haste to come to their patron’s aid, the Population Matters people have shown us a brief glimpse into their outlook on humans in general which can be summarized as follows: humans equal insects that spread, consume resources and then die. This view is held dear by environmentalists and conservationists all over the globe. One could even say that this dangerous anti-human thinking spreads locust-like within the scientific community. Another patron of Population Matters, University College’s Emeritus Professor John Guillebaud, has shown us (quite literally) another glimpse into the true nature of these neo-Malthusians when he spoke in front of a group of scientists at Cambridge University’s Triple Helix Society on October 14, 2010.
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