What does it take to alert the world on human overpopulation?

By Frosty Wooldridge

As humanity explodes at 7 billion on Monday, October 1, 2011, the mainstream media, religions and most leaders shy away from the ramifications. 

The Economist Magazine featured a piece, “7 billion humans on Earth: don’t panic!”

Unfortunately, as the economist Kenneth Boulding said, “The only people advocating for unlimited growth on a finite planet are economists and madmen.”

When anyone in the United States or Canada stands up to the growth lobby, they immediately feel the wrath of pro immigration and pro growth organizations.   Such individuals become the subject of name calling and defamation of character.

What are your thoughts on this phenomenon Mr. Murray?

“ CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) was to have a booth set up at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the science fair held by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science this winter. But guess what,” said Murray. “After making the arrangements and paying a fee of $2500, CAPS was told that the deal was off. They could not have a booth at the fair after all. Why? It seems that somebody got to them. Of course, alternative explanations can be entertained. AAAS explained that is “a non-profit, non-partisan, scientific association, and unfortunately, CAPS does not align with AAAS”.

“Funny how they took the rent and then made the discovery that CAPS didn’t meet their criteria of legitimate science. In response to further inquiry, they added that “We do not provide booth space to organizations with as direct political and lobbying intent as CAPS on issues that go beyond the interests of our multidisciplinary membership and meeting audience.”

“How times have changed. In 1976, Canada’s then most prestigious and august scientific body, the Science Council of Canada, issued a report (Number 25) that concluded that the country faced a future of severe resource constraints, and that it would be prudent for us to not to exceed 30 million people. Twenty one years later, another group of scientists and academics led by Dr. Michael Healey of UBC completed a $2.4 million federally-commissioned study that argued for the development of a Population Plan for the country, as it was apparent that many other farming regions outside Canada’s major urban centers would suffer the same ecological damage that Greater Vancouver’s burgeoning population had inflicted upon the Fraser Basin.

“In both cases then, scientists had identified rampant human population growth as very much a legitimate subject of scientific research and felt compelled to recommend curbs to that growth. Their reports obviously evidenced “lobbying intent”. But now, in 2011, the zeitgeist has shifted to the point that apparently “science” must stand by in silent witness to a mugging of nature, and pretend that this “non-involvement” is something other than what is it—collusion by default. Scientists have become unwilling “silent partners in crime”.

“Here is my suspicion. I smell the odor of two smear organizations in this incident. The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) and the Center of Community Living (CCL), who have made a habit of vetting upcoming events and notifying the hosts that some of the invited guests are “un-American”. No doubt, the AAAS have been told that CAPs is “anti-immigrant” and “racist”. This is what has been happening all over the continent the past few years, and with increasing frequency. Here goes the pattern. Someone in our movement is invited to  a convention, or to an interview or to submit an op-ed piece, and suddenly, it is cancelled—with no reason given. It seems that nearly everyone in my circle has had an experience like that—including me.  It is like really hitting it off with someone and then, inexplicably, finding her cold upon meeting her the second time. Or being engaged and being inexplicably left at the altar.  If it happens once, or even twice, you can find reasons to dismiss it. But when it becomes the norm, you know the fix is in.

“Now I have learned that Madeline Weld, president of the Population Institute of Canada, was invited in late September, 2011, to speak at an event that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was organizing for October 31, to mark the occasion of the world population reaching 7 billion. The event was to last 3 hours and include a roundtable discussion. But, on October 13, Madeline was advised by CIDA that the entire event had been cancelled due to “unforeseeable circumstances.” I have an idea what those unforeseeable circumstances might have been.

“I suspect that the person who invited Madeline had no idea who Madeline was. But others at CIDA did–and when they saw (too late) who had been invited to speak at the 7 billion event, they were no doubt horrified. Madeline has challenged the neglect of family planning by CIDA and their flawed development model which ignores population. The powers that be figured it was best to cancel the event.

“There are Canadian groups plugged into the SPLC “Hatewatch” network too. The SPLC  sends out weekly bulletins advising supporters where ‘racists’ are about to speak.  No sooner was the first press conference for the fledging “Canadians for Immigration Policy Reform” convened when it was under attack in a Eco-Marxist online magazine for its ‘racist’ agenda. If you think this is paranoia then perform a test.  Set up a phony lecture date by someone on the SPLC hate-list and schedule it at a local college or auditorium. Advertise it widely and then wait for the rent-a-crowd rag-bag protesters to show up with placards and blow horns to shout the phantom lecturer down. Make it a cold winter night so can greet them with fire hoses.

“We talk about the Sixth Extinction. The fact that we are in the midst of human-caused species loss on a massive scale. But what we don’t seem to fathom is that we are also witnessing the Seventh Extinction event—- a wave of Neo-McCarthyism that is sweeping over the land and causing a mass die-off of discussion about the consequences of  runaway immigration-driven population growth in North America. People are being silenced, excluded and dropped. They are losing their columns, their radio shows and their foundation money. And the people who are doing it to them are the same kind of people who wrung their  hands when told about how badly treated “the Hollywood Ten” were, or how ‘un-American’ the House on Un-American Activities was in the 50s. And the Civil Liberties Union has nothing to say about it. Hypocrites.

“What can we do about it? For starters we can refuse support or cooperation with any who work with the smear network. Stop working with Avaaz.org or Commondreams.org. Stop supporting green NGOs and left wing think tanks that repeat their lies and exclude our voice. Stop pretending that environmentalists and feminists and ‘progressives’ are friends who have lost their way, friends who share our goals but don’t yet understand our perspectives. These people are our enemies.

“They aim to destroy us. All of them. The McKibbens, the Monbiots, the Brunes, the Hartmanites.  THEY are the sectarians, not us. They are the ones who took deserted the IPAT equation, not us. We have tried to work with them but they will not work with us. In fact, they work very hard behind the scenes  against us—using their friends at Hampshire College, the SPLC, the CCL and the other smear merchants as their hit men.   Their objective is not ours. They are not authentic environmentalists.  They want to manage the environment to accommodate endless population growth, but we want to end population growth to accommodate the environment.  There can be no fellowship between us. We must end our unrequited love for this environmental ‘justice’ coalition.  Wake up. This is war.”

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You may reach Tim Murray: http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com or http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com, said, “I came upon an orchestration, the environmental movement, and all the musicians were playing violins to the tune of “Overconsumption, overconsumption, overconsumption.” They refused to play any other tune or use any other instrument to compliment that narrow repertoire. Apparently some corporate donors were paying them to be a one-trick pony.