Three threats circle humanity like vultures: mass starvation, environmental devastation, and nuclear annihilation.  The actions taken by the international community with respect to poverty reduction, sustainable development, and peaceful disarmament converge to form a desperate attempt to prevent the world from the event horizon, or point of no return, of mass starvation, environmental devastation and nuclear annihilation.  BITTER PILL

Humanity became a force of nature and a threat to nature when we exceeded 3 billion, developed nuclear weapons and energy, and became dependent on science and technology for our survival.  By 1980 it dawned on us that our science- and technology-fueled industrial activity damages the planet’s life support systems and that we have become utterly dependent on this toxic life style.  Long before the environment became an issue due to human activity, population growth was the focus of the international community and combatting it the primary function of the United Nations.   To this day, it remains so, because it is only by combatting population growth that nations can live within their means and need not invade other nations and start wars to access vital resources. 

A Background Document on the Population Programme of the United Nations, published in 1994 by the Secretariat of the International Conference on Population and Development, reveals that “since its inception , the United Nations has been involved in the field of population” and that the United Nations Population Commission “was established by the Economic and Social Council in 1946, as a subsidiary body, to arrange for studies and advise the Council on the size, structure and changes in the world population and on the policies designed to influence population variables, as well as on the interactions between demographic, social and economic factors.”  Without mentioning how, this document admits that the United Nations has interfered with natural population growth since 1945 and has successfully coordinated a global effort to achieve desired demographic objectives.  What it does mention is that “two major entities in the United Nations system are entirely devoted to population activities: the Population Division of the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities”. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was convened in 1972 at the initiative of the Government of Sweden and exemplifies the international community’s determination to address population growth as part and parcel of solving environmental issues. 

Demographic policies which are without prejudice to basic human rights and which are deemed appropriate by Governments concerned should be applied in those regions where the rate of population growth or excessive population concentrations are likely to have adverse effects on the environment of the human environment and impede development. (Principle 16)

The environment cannot be improved in conditions of poverty. In Gandhi’s 1972 speech we already find the essential truth that to fight poverty, which forces struggling people to destroy the environment, you need to develop and to develop you need science and technology which come at a heavy cost to the environment.  To help the developing world escape this vicious circle, given the difficult constraints of respect for the environment and for human rights, political leaders and scientists came together a few years later to find ways to develop sustainably and realized that the developed world must help the developing world with capital and knowhow to build its own industrial base but also to control its population, the latter being an unavoidable and unspoken prerequisite to prosperity.  They also realized that the people of the developed world needed to find the political will to lower their consumption and minimize the damage they do the environment, which is far greater both nominally and proportionally than the damage done to the environment by people in poor countries. 

It is an over-simplification to blame all the world's problems on increasing population. Countries with but a small fraction of the world population consume the bulk of the world's production of minerals, fossil fuels and so on. Life is one and the world is one, and all these questions are inter-linked. We want thinking people capable of spontaneous self-directed activity, people who are interested and interesting, and who are imbued with compassion and concern for others.

People can be motivated and urged to participate in better alternatives.

Modern man must re-establish an unbroken link with nature and with life. As the world continued to struggle with its enduring problems of poverty and conflict the human impact on earth’s fragile biosphere became increasingly self-evident and the need to take drastic action added new impetus to the fight against population, which evolved from only a silent war on human fertility to a wider war on human consumption, the family, and on human longevity. 

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the ‘Rio Summit’ or the ‘Earth Summit’, was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and focused on reducing poverty and promoting employment, clean energy and more fair and sustainable use of resources, which in time and behind the scenes has translated into a war on consumption and longevity in the developed world.   

Out of 172 participating nations, 116 sent their heads of state or government to signal the importance accorded to this global gathering.  The Rio Summit is preceded by two international conferences on population – Bucharest in 1974 and Mexico City in 1984, which sought to commit the developing world to limit fertility and to force every nation to draw binding policy documents concerning targets of population – and succeeded by yet another conference on population held in Cairo in 1994. 

In Bucharest, in 1974, a World Population Plan of Action was agreed upon whose goal is fertility control, takes into account the relationship of population and development, and calls on nations to promote birth control by abortion, contraception and sterilization.  In its text we find faint allusions to the existence and effects of covert methods of population control:

More than anything, we find clear language on the primary aim and general objectives of the World Population Plan of Action:

To promote socio-economic measures and programmes whose aim is to affect, inter alia, population growth, morbidity and mortality, reproduction and family formation, population distribution and internal migration, international migration and, consequently, demographic structures. 

In Mexico City, in 1984, the World Population Plan of Action adopted a decade earlier was expanded and intensified to achieve greater efficiency in subverting human fertility, increasing abortion and undermining the family structure so as to keep families few and small. 

And in Cairo, in 1994, a new Programme of Action was adopted showing greater commitment and determination to fight population growth within the context of sustainable development while hiding increasingly brutal methods of population control behind euphemistic terms such as ‘reproductive health’, ‘family planning’, ‘women’s education’ and ‘gender equality’. 

The result is a lose-lose situation where nature benefits insufficiently and man suffers unnecessarily and where neither the world’s demographic nor the planet’s environmental objectives have been realized or could possibly be realized.  

Good things have come from the Rio Summit: the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, to guide sustainable development around the world; the Statement of Forest Principles, to manage and conserve forests; and Agenda 21, a global action plan for all the world’s social and economic ills –  three non-binding documents that show the way forward and invite all nations to participate voluntarily in a global and coordinated effort to protect the environment and eradicate poverty. 

The outcome of the Earth Summit was the Johannesburg Declaration, which commits the nations of the world to sustainable development and multilateralism and urges them to focus on such concrete things as:

The Earth Summit also lays out the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which brings the voluntary goals of Agenda 21 one step closer to their mandatory implementation as the Millennium Development Goals, the eight international development goals that were established at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 and constitute the plan of all plans and that were laid down in the Millennium Declaration, the promise of all promises.  

The rationale is this: to prevent climate change we need to fight global warming and to fight global warming we need concerted global action whereby the developed world lowers its greenhouse gas emissions by switching to renewable energy sources and the developing world finds ways to develop a green economy from start.  To date, we have succeeded neither in building a green economy nor in fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), held in Rio in 2012, and the Millennium Development Goals Report 2014 regretfully attest.  The summits and conferences on sustainable development and poverty reduction that I have described above have served mostly as sideshows and public distractions to the covert effort to halt population growth and complete the demographic transition, which is the only way humanity can escape poverty and protect the environment.  

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Killing Us Softly: Causes and Consequences of the Global Depopulation Policy is considered by the author to be important in understanding the content of Survival or Extinction. Likewise a second book, Chemical and Biological Depopulation is also considered important to understanding. You can download both as a zipfile here