Save the Planet: Hate Humanity

There is never a shortage of those who are so obsessed with saving the environment that they are quite happy to implement quite anti-human policies along the way. Examples abound of planet-loving, human-hating zealots who are more than willing to side with nature against humanity when push comes to shove.

I have documented plenty of such cases in the past, and will doubtless do many more in the future. Just today two more examples came to light which are worth commenting on. The first involves our good friends at Planned Parenthood.

You may recall that the founder of this organisation was Margaret Sanger, one of modern history’s more ugly eugenicists. She founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. Just one quote from her helps to set the stage:

“Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. Eugenists emphasize the mating of healthy couples for the conscious purpose of producing healthy children, the sterilization of the unfit to prevent their populating the world with their kind and they may, perhaps, agree with us that contraception is a necessary measure among the masses of the workers, where wages do not keep pace with the growth of the family and its necessities in the way of food, clothing, housing, medical attention, education and the like.

“We who advocate Birth Control, on the other hand, lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. The eugenist also believes that a woman should bear as many healthy children as possible as a duty to the state. We hold that the world is already over-populated. Eugenists imply or insist that a woman’s first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state.”

Her organisation is still peddling this stuff today. Its current President, Cecile Richards continues to argue for birth control, abortion on demand, and other radical anti-population measures, in the interests of saving governments money: “Birth control is one of those issues that actually saves the government money. So an investment in covering birth control actually in the long run is a huge cost savings because women don’t have children that they weren’t planning on having and all the sort of attendant cost for unplanned pregnancy.”

But as one pro-life commentator pointed out, “In reality, birth control is already widely available to women and even young girls, on a sliding scale basis, so that those who cannot afford the dangerous steroidal pills can receive them at little or no cost. [Covering all birth control as preventive care] will not increase its availability, but will dramatically increase Planned Parenthood’s profit margin, by not only requiring new private health plans to cover 100% of the cost, but also requiring state Medicaid programs to pay 100% of the cost for all Medicaid recipients.”

Or as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops pointed out, contraception and sterilization “prevent not a disease condition, but the healthy condition known as fertility.” Yet the population control crowd does in fact view fertility as a curse to be worked against, instead of a blessing to be embraced.

Another recent example of this mentality came from a recent article in New Republic. A Yale historian suggested that Hitler and Stalin may have been in part motivated by economic and environmental concerns. As Timothy Snyder writes,

“Both Hitler’s Holocaust and Stalin’s Terror took place during an interval of environmental risk: between the identification of a critical environmental problem and the introduction of the technologies that would solve it. National Socialism and Stalinism both identified enemies to be eliminated, of course; and today, when we talk about Nazism and Stalinism, we understandably emphasize the hatred – the racial hatred of Hitler and the class hatred of Stalin. But there was an economic and environmental side to their ideologies as well: Both Hitler and Stalin made killing seem to serve a vision of economic development that would overcome environmental limitations.”

He is not quite suggesting that Hitler was a greenie, but he offers the recent past as a test case of what may take place in days ahead. He goes on to suggest that in the future such concerns will drive other states into genocidal actions. Concerns about global warming and the like may propel other dictators into action.

Charles Colson has just penned a commentary on this. He says in part, “Still, I can’t help but notice that in his speculation about future instances of ideology leading people to deny the humanity of others, he overlooks actual instances of what is happening today.

“An obvious instance is abortion-on-demand. It’s hard to think of a better illustration of ideology – in this case the exaltation of personal autonomy – which denies the humanity of others and kills people. On the environmental front, global-warming hysteria has given license to an anti-human view that portrays people as a problem to be managed. This ideology leads some to openly discuss the need for ‘culling’ the human race, as if people were livestock.

“Others talk about more vigorous and even coercive population-control measures as a way of ‘saving’ the planet. One recent ad even portrayed a teacher blowing up students who weren’t committed to reducing their personal CO2 emissions! I’m not making this up!

“Snyder’s argument reflects what happens when we abandon the biblical worldview, with its inherent dignity given to every single human life, and when we deny the sovereignty of God. Worldviews, as you’ve heard me preach so many times, do matter – not just in preventing climatic disaster – but in preventing human beings from being killed in the name of a human ideology.”

But sadly it is not just the ideologues and ruling elites who can take an anti-humanity stance. Increasingly the masses are being deluded into believing we must take radical actions to cull our population. Australian Dick Smith and his anti-population growth crusade is one obvious example here.

And a recent poll found that a third of all Australians think that families should be limited to just two children, in the interests of saving our environment. Thus we may not be far off from China’s coercive one-child policy. It seems a misplaced concern about planet earth has turned even Aussies into anti-child and anti-people campaigners.

Proper concern for the environment is never amiss. But when it becomes an excuse for anti-human policies and programs, then we need to learn the lessons of history. Eugenics is still with us. Its image may have been tarnished a bit during the Holocaust, but it is still alive and well, and needs to be resisted just as fiercely today.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10102601.html
http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/magazine/78207/global-warming-genocide
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/15626

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10 Replies to “Save the Planet: Hate Humanity”

  1. The philosophies of the pro-death Left have manifested themselves in Europe, just as one example. With Europeans not even replacing themselves with children, our most precious resource, having an average 1.2 children or fewer, while Muslims are having an unlimited number of children, you don’t need a course in mathematics to work out that all of Europe will be Muslim in a generation.
    Frank Bellet, Petrie Qld

  2. Even without a 2 child policy the fertility rate of Australian woman is 1.78 children/woman. So in effect our desires for wealth over children, career over caring, house over home, dismemberment over difficulty, has resulted in a society that averages out to less than two children per family without government intervention.

    As for contraception: Between 50% and 60% of abortions are due to failed contraception. 50% of women will have an unplanned pregnancy in their lifetime. A recent study found that 60% of unplanned pregnancies were while using contraception and 43% using contraception were on the pill. These real use statistics are a far cry from the best practice statistics we are quoted.

    Kylie Anderson

  3. So how many babies per year would be prevented from sullying our pristine forests by a two-child policy? By my calculations only about 77,000.

    This same reduction could be achieved just by cutting immigration by a third.

    Such comparisons are probably considered racist in lefty circles however.

    http://www.dpmc.gov.au/publications/families/docs/Families_in_Australia_08.doc

    http://www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/statistics/immigration-update/update-jun09.pdf

    Mansel Rogerson

  4. As Kylie points out our National birth rate is under two anyway. So an push for more birth control is stupid, expensive and not the main driver of our (national) population growth. The main thing driving population growth in Australia is immigration. It’s much easier to turn off the “immigration tap” than the “birth tap”. At least in a western context, birth rates are under the repopulation rate (of 2 births per mother).

    Dick Smith is after a stabilisation & cap of our population, rather than the ponzi demographical boosting agenda of the Howard, Rudd & Gillard governments. In order pay for the coming wave of baby boomers in retirement. Having the highest immigration rate in the developed world isn’t sustainable or the answer. Especially when there is no new infrastructure to support this wave of people. Gillard is all hot air on population, at least the Libs wanted to cut immigration by 100,000. Which still isn’t enough as far as if the goal is to stabilize & cap our population. It’s poor stewardship of the God’s creation to do otherwise.

    Is this the recent poll you are referring to?
    http://www.anu.edu.au/anupoll/content/news/article/anupoll_tracks_population_growing_pains/

    Paul Armstead

  5. Hi Bill, I have just recently come across your website and it is a beauty! I read yesterday where Bill Gates & Warren Buffet; number 1 & 3 worlds richest men are giving away half of their fortunes in the coming years. Gates is already using his billions to put together seed banks for Africa and eradication of certain diseases – but, it was pointed out that this arch capitalist would be better off using his money as ‘capital’ for the Africans & Indians so they can start businesses like he has, and create wealth for the poor & oppressed – but then the penny dropped, Gates is very concerned about climate change/environment and helping the worlds poor get rich would supposedly destroy the planet – I think (own personal opinion) that Gates – Harvard indoctrinated – is eugenist by default. The billions he has given into Africa have not made a measurable results in the famines, wealth & disease of those countries – welfare does not work! Gates, more than anyone would know that capitalism works and gets the poor out of poverty – so why doesn’t he micro-finance capitalism? Sadly, I think Gates thinks that there are way to many humans and if you empower the poor to industrialise, then all that evil CO2 will belch out and destroy the planet. I do think that Buffet & Gates really do want to help their fellow humans, but their thinking has been hijacked by Gaia worship and as we know – even amongst the atheists and secularists gaia comes first. Even after Copenhagen, nothing will stop this mob – and sadly the only hope I have is that Africa, China, India & Brazil will tell the West to get lost and we will see an accelerated decline in the once Christian West.
    Neil Innes

  6. Wouldn’t it be much better to work at providing infrastructure to serve the people who want to come to Australia rather than reducing the number of people who enter Australia either by birth or immigration? This would create jobs and increase prosperity, not reduce it. People are born with brains, not just needs, so surely we can figure out a way to look after the planet in the process, in the good Christian sense of it.

    We have so much space, so few people, so much wealth, so much beauty, I think we should share it. I think it is our duty to share and give to those in need.

    Karla Megac

  7. Thanks Karla

    But things may be much more complex than simply saying we should share more. I will have to write an article on immigration and the relevant biblical considerations.

    Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

  8. I agree that we should share but, if you think we can save the world by letting mass numbers of people in will solve their problems you a kidding yourself. They need help where they are. The best way to do this is to increase foreign aid.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

    Paul Armstead

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