Chris White Tech Reporter
November 06, 2019 4:57 PM ET
Several high-profile Democrats who back the so-called Green New Deal are now apparently supporting a new report calling for a dramatic reduction in the world’s population to stave off a climate crisis.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey retweeted links to a report signed by more than 11,000 scientists who argue that the population “must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity.”
The report, published Tuesday in the journal BioScience, also calls for the wholesale dumping of fossil fuels and the emergence of green energy. They call for a “bold and drastic” change in economic growth to slash greenhouse gas emissions, which research shows contributes to climate change.
Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, backed the report on Twitter, telling her followers in a Nov. 5 tweet that “tweaks and shortcuts” won’t be enough to save the planet. The U.S. must engage in “[m]assive, systemic change is in alignment with scientific consensus,” she said.
The New York lawmaker retweeted a tweet from The Huffington Post that discusses the report’s details. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief Of Staff Admits What The Green New Deal Is Really About — And It’s Not The Climate)
When it comes to the climate crisis, tweaks and shortcuts aren’t enough to preserve our planet.
Massive, systemic change is in alignment with scientific consensus.
We need #GreenNewDeal. https://t.co/mNSUmGeC3X
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 5, 2019
Markey made similar comments. “11,258 scientists are sounding the alarm: we are in a climate emergency. And not just climate scientists. Biologists, ecologists, & more,” the Massachusetts Democrat said in a Nov. 6 tweet.
“The crisis touches every aspect of our lives. So must the solution. That’s why we need a #GreenNewDeal to fundamentally transform our society,” Markey added. He included in his tweet a link to a Washington Post report highlighting the nuts and bolts of the report.
11,258 scientists are sounding the alarm: we are in a climate emergency. And not just climate scientists. Biologists, ecologists, & more. The crisis touches every aspect of our lives. So must the solution. That’s why we need a #GreenNewDeal to fundamentally transform our society. https://t.co/FpvEXajZdK
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) November 6, 2019
Markey and Ocasio-Cortez introduced the GND in February, which calls for a “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals designed to tackled global warming.
The GND calls for the country to become carbon neutral within 10 years and seeks to aggressively reduce emissions. Other Democrats are also supporting the general thrust of Tuesday’s report.
Billionaire Tom Steyer also expressed his support. “The world must wake up. We can’t sweep climate change under the rug any longer,” Steyer said in a Wednesday tweet that also linked to WaPo’s report.
World data consistently show that climate change is the least of most people’s concerns. Citizens generally are more concerned about getting a good education, obtaining better healthcare, and achieving political freedoms than they are tackling climate change, according to a 2015 survey from the United Nations.
Neither Ocasio-Cortez, nor Markey or Steyer responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Well, if you take a celebrity like Leo DiCaprio, who owns multiple houses, makes films, and flies private jets all over the place, he has what, 1000x the carbon footprint of a normal person? So maybe instead of a “drastic reduction of population”, the world should be very selective, and go for the most efficient number, those who use the very most energy first, until the complaining stops. Hmmm….
Isn’t this what Delingpole was saying back in 2012 with his book “Watermelons”. To “normalise” extreme ideas and sell it to the masses in order to “save the planet”, increase taxation and lower population growth. That has always been their goal.
Did anyone see the movie ” Kingsman: The Secret Service” ?
The bad guys wanted to “save the earth from global warming” by killing off everyone except a few “selected elites”.
Sounds a a little like this article.
The movie is of course fiction … but the movie looks more & more like a sick Hollywood fantasy when you read about people actually supporting population control to control global warming.
At least Drax in Moonraker was more honest, he wanted to kill everyone off so that only the “perfect” elite would survive and repopulate the planet. Which is really the same things as those claiming to be “saving the planet” are aiming for.
Of course, at the end of the film the ‘elites’ get their heads ‘blowed up real good’. 🙂 That included the POTUS, who from behind look an awful lot like #44.
Demographics seem to indicate that the global population will peak at around 10 billion and then begin to decline naturally. I believe that this is within the next 50+ years for the peak.
If overpopulation is a natural occurrence then we should be able to list examples from the natural world.
Are there any? Do we see continuous examples of rat, penguin, wildebeest overpopulations? Or do large groups naturally manage and stabilize their population sizes?
Perhaps a food source disappears and specific populations are decimated, but how frequently does this actually happen naturally?
There is the population cycle of the Canadian lynx and the snowshoe hare which follows a boom and bust timeline. When conditions are good, the hare population swells, and then so does the lynx population, because the hare is a major food source for lynxes. So once the over-populated lynx kill and eat all of the excess hares, then there are too many lynx and not enough hares and the excess lynx starve. Which brings their population back down to “normal”. And fewer lynx means more hares survive to breed and it starts all over again….
There are probably other examples but that is one well known one that I can think of off the top of my head.
Firstly, it is deplorable to imply we, mankind, are not “natural”.
Secondly, 98% of all species on this planet have gone extinct for various reasons.
We are the one species to break this rule – only man can limit man.
Which is what these eugenics-addled nuts are trying.
As Percy Shelley noted,
`Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few.
Secondly, 98% of all species on this planet have gone extinct for various reasons
really? Preciesely 98%, not 97.2% not 98.5% or 99.9% or any other extremely high number? and where exactly did that number come from? what was the methodology for determining it? Because I think the answers to those last two questions are “your (or someone else’s) butt” and “plucked out of”
Emigration reform?
If Trump doesnt get a massive majority, I’ll be worried. Europe and Canadians, New Zealanders, and particularly Australians are already in the bag, lined up for taking orders. The USA is the only chance for western civilization. Geez get every Deplorable out to vote!
Politicians should be a lot more considerate in what they are doing. Most of us elect them to help us to pursue a healthy, safe and joyful life. By pursuing “climate action” with no consideration of cost and benefit to all walks of life, just to stay in office, they are almost certain to do tremendous harm, in making the middle class and the poor poorer and less enjoyment of life.
Even if the global climate, if there is such a thing, had an issue and this issue was caused mainly by homo sapiens and cows, solutions aught to be primarily beneficial to all humans including the middle class and the poor.
There is a good chance that cold and winter will continue to prevail half the year, even if the global temperature should increase. Increasing energy complexity and prices without income gain for the middle class and poor, will not a beneficial to the humans, but rather increase winter death.
If the politicians have little feelings left, they may be helped by reading “The Little Matchgirl” written just before the Russian revolution by Hans Christian Andersen. It is a sad story from the very early days of industrial revolution and a thing that could have bin eradicated if the trillion of dollars spend on the inhuman and absurd way of fighting a most likely non-issue in the most uneconomical way thinkable, had been spend on building NAWAPA and similar projects in Africa and elsewhere.
PS: NAWAPA stands for North American Water and Power Alliance
PS2: Can we have Solvang moved out of California, Solvang deserves better 🙂 Nice little Danish city, which I visited in 1983, just before I began to develop wind turbines. – Yes, I know, for a few years I was the bad guy.
And Transaqua, with NAWAPA intent, to refill Lake Chad, on the EU table for decades, has now China on board.
Once again, the marxbrothers are trying to get ahead of the parade. Lake Chad is growing again and the sahel is greening beyond anyone’s expectations. There is no need for the lake to be artificially refilled.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/05/18/shrinking-lake-chad-is-actually-growing/
Bull. There is a need for modern infrastructure.
Depending on the vagaries on “climate” is a game for baboons, or Squires of the British Empire.
Surprising for someone here at WUWT to swear by the “weather”.
Very odd, that. Seems like you are in with the Extinction Rebellion mob.
Bull. There is a need for modern infrastructure
no one was talking about modern infrastructure. Gary was pointing out, correctly, that the “shrinking lake chad” scare story isn’t true, Lake Chad has been growing again as such, artificially refilling based on the scare story isn’t needed.
Surprising for someone here at WUWT to swear by the “weather”.
no one here is “swear(ing) by the ‘weather’ “, just pointing out the facts contrary to what the scare stories would have people believe. No wonder you fall for conspiracy nonsense, you’re reading comprehension skills are shockingly poor.
«Several high-profile Democrats who back the so-called Green New Deal are now apparently supporting a new report calling for a dramatic reduction in the world’s population to stave off a climate crisis.»
As rhe above says «now apparently», I wish this was not true…
Because if it is, then the Neomalthusianism profoundly reactionary stance of those people continues to be unveiled…
This is beginning to sound like the back to the ’70’s show. The return of a bad dream that I don’t care to relive
Another ‘Final Solution’ just like the one from that great environmentalist 80 years ago.
It should be obvious why “high profile” Dems are GND – washed. Its the money, stupid!
Look at Bank of England Mark Carney’s plan (seconded by Blackrock) presented at the Jackson Hole FED confab in August :
“Regime Change” from the Dollar to a global strictly green unlimited digital currency, the SHC, Synthetic Hegemonic Currency. Now it turns out Ursula van der Leyen wants an EU GND too, and someone there is calling for a digital Euro. Anyone want to bet their last Dollar that is the SHC with a french accent?
Considering Carney at the moment is a Sterling chap, you just could not make this stuff up!
And yet, like all conspiracy theorist/nutters, the conspiracy you weave is stuff you made up. (Note: I didn’t say anything about the validity of individual data points, for example Mark Carney being at Jackson Hole in Aug, it’s the leaps of illogic that the tin-foil hat brigade jump to that is exercises in “making stuff up”)
Lifeclocks are a LIE!
Fascism on steroids.
Global Warming/Climate Change are the fence posts/barbed wire that will be used to enslave 97% of humanity.
Same old same old-
https://www.marxists.org/subject/marxmyths/john-holloway/article.htm
‘If Marxism is understood as the correct, objective, scientific knowledge of history, then this begs the question, ‘who says so?’ Who holds the correct knowledge and how did they gain that knowledge? Who is the subject of the knowledge? The notion of Marxism as ‘science’ implies a distinction between those who know and those who do not know, a distinction between those who have true consciousness and those who have false consciousness.’
Yo’all just have the false consciousness of science so no further correspondence will be entered into.
“They call for a “bold and drastic” change in economic growth to slash greenhouse gas emissions, which research shows contributes to climate change.”
No research shows this, only failed models.
The fastest way to slow population growth is to let Africa energize with coal. Of course they oppose every kind of energy that works.
The same leftards who think mass migration is going to prop up their failed social Ponzi Programs also think the globe is overpopulated… The cognitive dissonance and the pain it causes is why they are so ful of rage and hate.
According to UNESCO there were 7.8M people doing scientific resource in the entire world as of 2013.
Doubtless the number is significantly higher today.
So we are supposed to give credence to a petition signed by 11K out of 7.8M (likely much more) scientists around the world, which is less than 2 tenths of a percent (0.14% to be more precise).
Yeh, right.
Having the true consciousness has its drawbacks. It begets Lysenkoism that the world’s going to run on solar panels windmills and lithium batteries as a result. Mind you they do have a point with population control as the true consciousness has slaughtered countless millions historically.
Basically, they hate people.
Would Democrats block immigration (legal and illegal) of families that had “too many kids” or is this policy just for white Americans?
“our country is FULL!” – Donald J. Trump, 7 April 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1115057524770844672
Actually, its just for conservative Americans. That’s who they want to get rid.
There is only one strategy that works to reduce birth rates: take people out of poverty, which requires access to cheap energy, and educate women.
The former is obstructed by green lunacy, the latter by retarded religions.
Here’s a link to 5+ entertaining and illustrative minutes about the 11,000…
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/11/07/new-big-global-warming-scare-is-simply-a-con-andrew-bolt/
Enjoy!