Tuesday 22 January 2013

David Attenborough - eugenicist

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I was very tempted to title this comment "David Attenborough - fascist" but people might misunderstand my point. Others - via the fine medium of Twitter suggested: "David Attenborough - fabian" in recognition of all those social democrats and pseudo-liberals (and apologists for mass murderers) like Sidney & Beatrice Webb, G B Shaw, H G Wells and J M Keynes who were in favour of government intervention to stop the masses from breeding.

However, I thing that "David Attenborough - eugenicist" will suffice for that is what he is:

"We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so,” warns David Attenborough in an interview in the new issue of Radio Times magazine. “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde,” says the natural history broadcaster.

And it's not us Western white folk - we're fine (or more pertinently failing to meet replacement levels meaning, but for immigration, negative population growth). It the huddled masses in Africa:

“We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves – and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.”
 A less kind blogger might sniff a little racism there!

Now David Attenborough - along with the other posh eugenicists in organisations like Friends of the Earth and the Green Party - has a pretty loose association with actual facts about population and indeed about famine in Ethiopia - true there are food shortages most years in this country but no objective observer - or even the development industry - identifies population pressures as the cause.

The real problem for nasty eugenicists like Attenborough is that economic growth, trade and open markets - by making us richer - are the means to 'control' population. Coupled with sending women to school rather than to arranged marriages. Here are the facts that the eugenicists ignore:

...in the next few years (if it hasn't happened already) the world will reach a milestone: half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself. That is, the fertility rate of half the world will be 2.1 or below. This is the “replacement level of fertility”, the magic number that causes a country's population to slow down and eventually to stabilise. According to the United Nations population division, 2.9 billion people out of a total of 6.5 billion were living in countries at or below this point in 2000-05. The number will rise to 3.4 billion out of 7 billion in the early 2010s and to over 50% in the middle of the next decade. The countries include not only Russia and Japan but Brazil, Indonesia, China and even south India.

Attenborough and his posh eugenicist mates can sod off. Humankind doesn't need him to sort its population growth - getting richer and better educated is doing the job just fine.

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4 comments:

singapore sling said...

Most women want the means of controlling their own fertility. There's absolutely no need for governments to impose eugenic programmes, if they allowed contraceptives to be distributed and abortions to be legally available it would be done by those women who know perfectly well that having more and more children isn't the way forward, but can't control their fertility short of never shagging.

It is organisations like the Catholic Church which block this. Fair enough, they've got the right to preach against it but no right to stand in the way of the majority who wish to ignore them. Why not address this? I don't support Chinese-style coercion any more than you do, but this reduction in population growth you describe is being slowed down by forces that aren't shy in using force and the power of government to get their way, as well as viciously persecuting gays and generally mistreating the unfortunate people who have to live under their regimes.

Leg-iron said...

I only have one response to anyone telling me the population must be reduced. It's 'Okay. You first.'

None have ever taken me up on it.

What's really sad is the comments below such articles, in which the gullible say that the population must be reduced for the sake of their grandchildren.

This is not just missing the point. This is firing at exactly 180 degrees to the direction of the point.

If these madmen get their way, there won't be any grandchildren.

Unknown said...

Everyone on earth today could fit in south Wales.

ILoveBorisKarloff said...

I've known for a while Attenborough was a fascist stroke eugenicist. Surprise, surprise he pops up in the Independent pushing for population reduction as the Covid-19 pandemic is being used to ruin the world economy and groom people for more state control. He never comes out and says what he's really thinking. He slyly implants the idea in the minds of the unwary that there are lesser human beings not worthy of life that should be culled like the serpent he is. As a genuine Christian he quite frankly makes my skin crawl.