MY SPEECH: SOLUTIONS FOR THE PHILIPPINES ?
Simultaneous Translation to Filipino Language through others
Who Understand English Language.
April 12, 2009, 4:00PM, Mauban Gymnasium, Quezon Province,
Luzon, Philippines
By Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life Activist
My Former Classmates and Friends, Good Afternoon!
Thanks for inviting me as your speaker to speak the so-called monstrous problems on life, family and justic issues to you today in this reunion-meeting?
We are in the climax of the problems and litmus test for our survival. The question of how can we survive, our children and help save other innocent children.
Our government officials are mostly supportive to SYSTEMS AND POLICIES that are practically anti-life, family and anti-poor. One of these is the Reproductive Rights Bills pending in the Philippine Congress but might anytime resurrect the proposal as constantly pressured by the International Agencies that advocate the legalization of abortion in the Philippines.
We are on the same boat of our present sufferings.
May I ask you? Do you think we have solution for the Philippine crisis that respects life, family and justice for the innocents?
Given the enormity of the country’s endless problems, we have to seriously understand the things I am going to clearly explain to you.
THE ORTHODOX AND CONVENTIONAL ANTI-LIFE/FAMILY SOLUTIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO THE PROBLEMS ARE:
DEBT? Or Further Debt At Interest? WITH THE CONDITIONS OF POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM THROUGH THE UNPFA'S BACK UP REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROPOSAL AND BILL IN CONGRESS:
But take note: From the original IMF loan of $800 Million and WB loan of $700 Million in 1978 stipled with POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAMMES, our TOTAL DEBT HAS horrendously increased by endless further borrowings and accompanied by HIGHLY USURIOUS INTEREST rates over the years to a close to US$350 BILLION or P6 Trillion plus Pesos with the INTEREST PAYMENT OF P700.6 Billion or US$14 Billion in 2009 irrespective it is being reduced or not as part of government’s debt management, but it is still the same. ONE OF THE MAJOR CONDITIONS OF IMF AND WB LOANS IS TO LEGALIZE ABORTION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT OUR DEBT IS INCREASING AT P1.2 BILLION DAILY IN THE CALENDAR YEAR IN THE EQUIVALENT OF $millions of dollars. All these interest-bearing loans with anti-life strings attached are going to most anti-life operations in the Philippines.
MOST DEBTS ARE IDENTIFIED TO BE ODIOUS AND ANOMALOUS and therefore criminal against the Filipino people due to the fact THAT CONDITIONS TO BORROWING ARE AGAINST THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE OF LIFE AND FAMILY ISSUES.
TAXES OR MORE TAXES? - to back up and finance population control programmes and finance the advocacy to legalise abortion?
I have discovered that TAXES with evidences are A LEGALIZED ROBBERY UNDER THE ANTI-LIFE FINANCIAL-ECONOMIC SYSTEM, DEBT FINANCE for the endless payment of interest to BANKERS, FOR BAILING OUT TO THOSE GREEDY ENTITIES that are hostile to human life and innocents, OR GIVING EXCESSIVE BONUSES TO OVER-FED AND SUMPTUOUS BANKERS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND WELL-PAID ORTHODOX ECONOMISTS--who say that BABIES CAUSE POVERTY, WHO SAY THAT ABORTION CAN BE THE SOLUTION TO POVERTY, AND THAT, AND WHO CAUSE THE UNNECESSARY CRISIS, AND Billions of Pesos allocated for PORK BARRELS FOR OUR FILIPINO LEGISLATORS THAT SUPPORT THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHT BILLS OR ABORTION BILL, doing nothing practically to save human life and the poor and the needy in the countryside, but only for their political power and political parties that are anti-abortion, and use the money as donations for the campaign to legalise abortion and for graft and corruption and personal aggrandizements at the cost of the sufferings of the poor families and children.
PHILIPPINE BUREAU OR INTERNAL REVENUE or BIR – the tax department of the Department of Finance TARGETS a goal TO DRASTICALLY COLLECT taxes by 2009, this year in the amount of P11.6 Billion EXACERBATED BY the WASHINGTON CONSENSUS and imposition of the anti-life IMF-WB 12% EXPANDED VALUED ADDED TAX or E-VAT that would become 15% by the year 2010-2011.
LIBERALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION AGAINST HUMAN LIFE?
WE HAVE NO CHOICE?
Liberalization has also brought the intensified culture of death in the country with the coming of FOREIGN SPEAKERS PRESENTING AND TALKING THE NECESSITY FOR THE PHILIPPINES TO INTENSIFY POPULATION CONTROL AND LEGALISE ABORTION.
Also please note that the BANKING LIBERALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION AND SELLING OFF PHILIPPINE ASSETS that nothing left for the poor Filipinos, that is criminal against the Filipinos and to Filipino children, ARE AMONG THE OF THE MANY STRINGS ATTACHED to LOANS to the IMF and the WB to Philippine Government. And given to our compliance to international (mandated) COVENANTS, the Philippines has rushed into PRO-DEATH GATT or General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization or WTO and yet alas,
AFTER HAVING COMPLIED, Philippines, along with other co-accused poor highly indebted nations: Uruguay, Costa Rica and Malaysian Territories Labua, is accused as WORST OFFENDERS, BY THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT OR OECD AS NON-COOPERATIVE TAX HAVEN in SE-Asia at the recent G-20 Meeting in London, UK.
WHAT BENEFITS DO OR DID WE DERIVE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENANTS, PER SE, FROM IMF MEMBERSHIP AND ITS PRESCRIPTIONS AND POPULATION CONTROL CONDITIONS, BITTER PILLS OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS? Or how much the DAMAGES OR PLUNDER TO HUMAN LIFE, TO OUR ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT it has caused upon us?
LIBERALIZATION? Against Life and Families?
Local factories and companies have closed down as we can’t compete to world markets. How many millions of jobs were painfully and heartbreakingly lost and their families and children when we opened the floodgates of imported goods with inadequate safety nets and protection to our own local producers?
HOW MANY FILIPINO FAMILIES and their children BECAME IMPOVERISHED AND DYING OF HUNGER IN THE COUNTRYSIDE when local companies that were built over several decades were suddenly wiped out in the name of TRADE LIBERALIZATION that I know is very anti-life.
The liberalization policies that exacerbate the increase rate of huge indebtedness of most families and SHAMEFUL RATE of beggary and mendicancy in the countryside and that causes suicidal tendencies to most peoples.
PRIVATIZATION OR SELLING OFF PHILIPPINE ASSETS TO PAY OUR FOREIGN DEBTS? DEBTS INCURRED AT INTEREST WITH THE ANTI-LIFE CONDITIONS. WITH DOUBLE DAMAGES: DAMAGE TO OUR ECONOMY AND DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE.
Philippine continues to sell our COUNTRY’S NATURAL WEALTH AND ASSETS to foreigners that allow 100% ownerships, to multinational companies and global tycoons that are at the side of the culture of death, that only promote greed and destruction of life and environment TO RAISE BILLIONS OF FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEETING ANNUAL BUDGET DEFICIT ORIGINALLY CAUSED BY DEBT PAYMENT under anti-life financial-economic system and debt-based economy.
DO WE, FILIPINOS, OR OUR GOVERNMENT GAIN FROM PRIVATIZATIONS? Most of these state-assets have become already private-assets like electric, water and our major terminals, port, even airports, etc.
ARE WE ABLE TO PAY THE TOTAL DEBTS AND INTEREST while we continue to comply with the anti-life conditions, FROM THE FUNDS FROM THE SELLING OF THE STATE-OWNED ASSETS?
Certainly not.
Deregulation
The cartel-like operation of oil industry of the financed-backed multinational oil corporations will continue to increase the prices being dictated by the cartels without any mercy to poor families and children.
DEBT, INTEREST, TAXES, PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION AND COMPLIANCE TO ANTI-LIFE/FAMILY CONDITIONS TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM UNDER WASINGTON CONSENSUS are not THE SOLUTIONS TO PHILIPPINE CRISIS.
OUR SOLUTION IS SIMPLE: WE HAVE MUST PRO-LIFE BASED SYSTEM AND POLICIES.
PRO-LIFE DEBT-FREE MONEY CREATION ECONOMY.
The Philippine Government must take back its power of creating money from the private banks and thus CREATE MONEY DEBT FREE BY LEGISLATION AND BY THE PROVISION OF THE NEW PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION. I am favorable to charter change for the reform of the economic system or banking system and not for the extension of power of the President and the present incumbent government officials.
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DEBT FREE MONEY CREATION CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF DEBT, INTEREST, TAXES, BANKRUPTCY, POVERTY AND HUNGER OF THE FILIPINO FAMILIES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. THERE WILL BE SMOOTH FLOW OF MONEY IN VOLUME AND IN CIRCULATION TO KEEP THE ECONOMY IN MOTION without debt for the service of life.
DEBT FREE MONEY CREATION CAN PROVIDE DIVIDEND OR SUPPLEMENTARY BASIC INCOME TO EVERY FILIPINO CITIZEN: father, mother, child or children and or to EVER FILIPINO FAMILY regularly in the country that can be the foundation of PRO-LIFE BASED ECONOMY TO ALL.
I hope I have clearly enlightened you all of our enormous country’s problems with pro-life solutions.
Please help me and follow me before it is too late. Let us proclaim the beauty of Life, of the Gospel of Life! Let us create a culture of justice for our innocents!
LET US MAKE RALLIES IN HE COMING WEEKS, MONTHS, NEXT YEAR TO DEMAND AND PRESSURE, not just ask, THE GOVERNMENT, the government officials and leaders WE VOTED LAST ELECTION, TO HEED OUR MAJOR CALL to ABANDON THE ANTI-LIFE ECONOMIC SYSTEM.
Let us take action immediately. Hunger is terrible with more than 2.9 Million Filipinos suffering hunger daily in the Philippines according to recorded statistics but honestly, there are more than 20 million Filipinos in the starvation circumstances. There are so many suffering families, born and unborn children that need help but there is nothing we can do unless we change the system. WE HAVE TO KEEP THE FAITH AND TRUST GOD THAT THERE WILL BE HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR. LET THERE BE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH, JUSTICE AND LIFE IN THE NEW CIVILIZATION OF LOVE!
Thank you and God bless you all for life!
Eric V. Encina
eric_encina@yahoo.com
‘WAITING IS THE HARDEST WORK OF HOPE” – Lene’s Smeade
“THIS IS OUR PREDICAMENT. OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WE LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT ISN’T.” - Epictetus
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
Monday, June 7, 2010
THE ECONOMIST AND ABORTION
THE ECONOMIST AND ABORTION
By Eric V. Encina
The present economic system is anti-life. This system can be a rational tool between life and death.
Unwantedness leads to high crime; abortion leads to less unwantedness; abortion leads to less crimes.”
STEVEN O LEVITT, Economist & Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
THIS IS ONE OF THE TRICKY ARGUMENTS OF THOSE WHO ADVOCATE ABORTION OR THOSE WHO PROMOTE THE IDEA OF INFORMED CHOICE.
THE ONLY SAFE SOLUTION THAT IS ON BALANCE CALLS FOR NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL METHODS.
There are so many confusing articles that demonstrate that pro-lifers are a cause of increasing juvenile crimes in the world by saving those UNWANTED UNBORN BABIES FROM ABORTION THAT BECOME THE SO-CALLED UNWANTED CHILDREN SUSCEPTIBLE TO CRIMES.
Any comments?
Please help our pro-life mission in the Philippines .
"Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt
find it again." - Ecclus. 11:1
Thank you for your pro-life solidarity.
Eric Verzo Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an,
PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City , Capiz , Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
"YOU SHALL NOT ABORT THE UNBORN CHILDREN IN ORDER TO AVOID THE DUTIES OF
PARENTHOOD NOR MURDER INFANTS BUT REJOICE IN EVERY CHILD AS A GIFT FROM GOD."
- St. Barnabas
LIFE IS SACRED, IT DESERVES OUR RESPECT AND PROTECTION. WE SHOULD LOVE
AND TREAT IT WELL ACCORDING TO THE PLAN OF GOD!
"Children are a gift from God; they are His reward." Psalm 127:3
"Many children are unplanned by their parents, but they are not unplanned
by God." - Rich Warren
"GOD IS THE ONE WHO MADE ALL THINGS, AND ALL THINGS ARE FOR HIS GLORY. HE
WANTED TO HAVE MANY CHILDREN SHARE HIS GLORY." - Hebrews 2:10a (NCV)
"A GROWING POPULATION IS A KING'S GLORY; A DWINDLING NATION IS HIS DOOM."
- Proverbs 14:28
"He that followed justice and mercy, shall find life, justice and glory."
- Prov. 21:21
LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, TEACH US TO DEFEND AND PROTECT HUMAN LIFE IN
ALL ITS STAGES, IN ALL ITS DIVERSITIES AND RACES!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
By Eric V. Encina
The present economic system is anti-life. This system can be a rational tool between life and death.
Unwantedness leads to high crime; abortion leads to less unwantedness; abortion leads to less crimes.”
STEVEN O LEVITT, Economist & Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
THIS IS ONE OF THE TRICKY ARGUMENTS OF THOSE WHO ADVOCATE ABORTION OR THOSE WHO PROMOTE THE IDEA OF INFORMED CHOICE.
THE ONLY SAFE SOLUTION THAT IS ON BALANCE CALLS FOR NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL METHODS.
There are so many confusing articles that demonstrate that pro-lifers are a cause of increasing juvenile crimes in the world by saving those UNWANTED UNBORN BABIES FROM ABORTION THAT BECOME THE SO-CALLED UNWANTED CHILDREN SUSCEPTIBLE TO CRIMES.
Any comments?
Please help our pro-life mission in the Philippines .
"Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt
find it again." - Ecclus. 11:1
Thank you for your pro-life solidarity.
Eric Verzo Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an,
PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City , Capiz , Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
"YOU SHALL NOT ABORT THE UNBORN CHILDREN IN ORDER TO AVOID THE DUTIES OF
PARENTHOOD NOR MURDER INFANTS BUT REJOICE IN EVERY CHILD AS A GIFT FROM GOD."
- St. Barnabas
LIFE IS SACRED, IT DESERVES OUR RESPECT AND PROTECTION. WE SHOULD LOVE
AND TREAT IT WELL ACCORDING TO THE PLAN OF GOD!
"Children are a gift from God; they are His reward." Psalm 127:3
"Many children are unplanned by their parents, but they are not unplanned
by God." - Rich Warren
"GOD IS THE ONE WHO MADE ALL THINGS, AND ALL THINGS ARE FOR HIS GLORY. HE
WANTED TO HAVE MANY CHILDREN SHARE HIS GLORY." - Hebrews 2:10a (NCV)
"A GROWING POPULATION IS A KING'S GLORY; A DWINDLING NATION IS HIS DOOM."
- Proverbs 14:28
"He that followed justice and mercy, shall find life, justice and glory."
- Prov. 21:21
LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, TEACH US TO DEFEND AND PROTECT HUMAN LIFE IN
ALL ITS STAGES, IN ALL ITS DIVERSITIES AND RACES!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
Abortionists, Racists, Eugenicists and Euthanasianists BELIEFS
CRISIS FOR THE PEOPLE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE VULTURES
Of the anti-life system
by Eric V. Encina
"A society that allows high levels of inequality is in essence killing its own citizens." Rochie Saks
THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS that is life-killing, WHICH IS BANKERS-MADE AND INTENTIONAL IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ELITE, BANKERS, FINANCIERS, FOR THE CORRUPT LEADERS TO PLUNDER US AND THE INNOCENTS AND ALL HUMANITY FURTHER FOR THEIR OWN WANTON GREED AND AVARICE OF BLOOD MONEY.
THESE FIENDISH SUCKERS, VULTURES, CUCKOOS, AUTHORS OF ABORTION INDUSTRY IN WHICH THEY MAKE MONEY, AUTOGENOCIDES, LEECHES CAN CREATE OPPORTUNITY LIKE THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS IN WHICH THEY CAN CONTINUE PRESERVING THEIR STATUS QOU AND THUS CONTINUE PILLAGING HUMANITY AND MURDERING THE INNOCENTS.
They are worse than colonizers of the past. There seems to be no possible forgiveness unto them.
Under the present debt based-economy anti-life systems and policies, there are increasing thousands upon thousands to millions of our people from families to children begging for food and living in utter destitution while prioritizing the payments of interest to IMF and WB that are hostile to human life.
Poverty that is rooted from debt finance-population control-abortion-induced system and policies, is a kind of murder. TO KEEP THE PEOPLE IN THE BONDAGE OF POVERTY, DEBT AND INTEREST while pressure to legalize and actually killing the unborn IS MURDER.
Almost every Filipino politician prostitutes themselves to the elite, international and foreign bankers, multinational corporations, big business that all HOSTILE TO HUMAN LIFE, and sell out land and people to global manipulators that target us to autogenocide in just one click of the mouse when time comes.
The savage cruelty cruelties of killing the innocent unborn children by UNPFA-USAID-back up-sponsored population control programs in the Philippines and thus accompanied by hunger, starvation of families and children in the countryside, the absence of supports to farming families, and the deaths of the innocents are all intentional. The society under the present anti-life systems and policies intentionally kills our own people because the wealthy do not want to share the wealth and because they want to follow the policies of the global manipulators.
Job Propaganda: A Great Deception.
The advertisement of the abundance of jobs that the government departments offer and being promoted by the media constantly ACTUALLY DO NOT exist in reality. JOB WITH DISCRIMINATIONS AND ANTI-LIFE POLICIES.
It is just a ploy, a propaganda to deceive people into believing that the government is working for the people. There are millions of unemployed Filipinos, lining up desperately hoping for any possible jobs to them.
Eric V. Encina
eric_encina@yahoo.com
AUTOGENOCIDES AND EUGENICS TO SOLVE POVERTY
THE ABORTIONISTS, RACISTS, EUGENICISTS AND EUTHANASIANISTS BELIEVE THAT:
It is better and easier, cheaper and faster to kill the weak and the innocents and those undesired groups of people than to help them live decently.
Ordinary people are pushed deeper into debt and other crises like homelessness, hunger, disease and despair.
The common people, the innocent and the powerless people are being left to their own devices to survive without resources or enough resources to survive or have any kind of a quality of life. THIS IS INTENTIONALLY DONE BY THOSE POWERFUL FEW so that they can continue to arrogate themselves of the wealth of the earth.
Social safety nets and jobs programs are continually removed or altered or gone to discourage keeping the babies or children—that is tantamount to pressure women, families to kill their own babies both born and unborn.
Because of this measure, this forces poverty, reinforces poverty and depresses the quality of life to the point people start dying in record numbers. Thousands of abortion illegally done in the Philippines annually plus the deaths of the children in sickness, diseases, hunger, starvation and malnutrition and the increasing cases of suicide arising from survival problems in the countryside.
Why Autogenocide?
In a 1978 letter of resignation from his position of president of the UAW, Douglas Fraser wrote, “I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in our country --a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society…”
Autogenocide has been solving the population problems of the American elite since the beginning of the country. Its been applied in many different forms over the centuries: small pox blankets and starvation for Indians; cannons fired at protesters in the mid-1800’s, the disappearances of little towns who resisted selling out to the Railroad Barons; the CIA introduction of crack to ghetto neighborhoods; criminalizing everything to keep the prisons full of members of certain groups; letting Dickensian poverty in its modern form make people suffer and die prematurely. Thus, American Autogenocide is “business as usual, ” making American Autogenocide inherently institutional.
American autogenocide hides the deficiencies of American-Anglo Saxon (AASAX) capitalism until it controls all the markets of the world. Capitalism, by its nature alone, simply cannot provide enough paying work for all the workers who need work in America. More, the number of jobs is declining while the number of workers is rising. Quite simply: industry has no use for many people.
Killing off the excess population is cheaper, easier and faster than having to deal with them. In capitalistic thought and lexicon, this is called “efficiency.”
Low, non- or negative producers are costly for a pay-as-you-go, you’re-on-your-own (YOYO), pull-yourself-up-with-your-bootstraps merchant society and psychopathic mentality. People without work or with little work and/or without money, still need food, shelter, emergency help, medical care, so forth.
Since the famous “restructuring” of the economy (which is also a restructuring of society back to a close resemblance of the old white patriarchal power hierarchy), more and more people—usually those from the lower tiers of society--can not earn enough money to properly live. This leads to tax money spent on social and emergency services. The rich complain that the tax money could have been better used—used for the priorities of the elite: tax reduction; reduction of capital gains taxes to zero; greater dividends to rich investor; huge salaries and pay packages to CEOs; so forth.
As mentioned above, the political and economic elite are restructuring society back to its original institutional, constitutional model of plutocracy and its support model, the elite psychopathic paternal hierarchy of subordination.
Autogenocide is utilitarian but the sacrifice of the victims is not for the benefit of the community, but for the benefit of the economic and political elite.
Now that the country’s infrastructure is in place and hardwired into the federal government, surplus people aren’t needed and won’t be needed in the future.
The wealthy elite and many big businesses are against paying taxes (cuts into their net profits) and governments (local, state and federal) have to raise taxes to support the poor and disenfranchised. Eliminate as much poor as you can so the demand for helping them (and for taxes to do it) drops.
Too many unwanted people might figure it out and organize themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Too many people with no hope, no hope for the future and nothing to lose can result in organizing, protests, strikes and rage-fueled riots.
Too many poor, disenfranchised and/or minorities with votes threaten the established power and wealth structures. Within 50 years, it is projected that there will be more minorities than whites. This new majority could take out the elite, white psychopathic system. This makes the current autogenocide a “preemptive” genocide. It guarantees continued power and wealth of the elite by keeping the majority of votes in the hands of whites.
It is negative population control. America is running out of room for its current population which is continually expanding. More, there is a current global “food shortage.” Over population can result in greater pollution, social suffering, epidemics and greater food shortages. In the mind of psychopathic leaders, somebody has to be removed, so the powerless—the people few will speak up for—are quietly and invisibly removed.
Autogenocide can remove enough people to let the earth heal so the rich and powerful can continue plundering it and enslaving the world’s populations.
Autogenocide is the perfect way for the elite to thin out the classes so they are disappeared or more manageable. Not only that, everyone gets the invisible messages of terror, so they are more likely to do as they are told.
Autogenocide tells everyone in the village what their place is and what happens to those who “fail” or “fall.” It doesn’t matter if the loser were destined to fail. In a highly materialistic, pay-as-you-go-society there are no margins for compassion and empathy. Those things don’t make money but cost it.
In the end, American autogenocide has always been about maintaining the current power structure and System, that acts like a modern (evolved) version of the colonial period power structure and System. The only difference is that modern politicians don’t wear broad-coats and powdered wigs.
Faye Weldon, British writer and feminist said, “Everything has changed but nothing is different” about feminism. The same thing can be said about American government since its beginning to now.
23. New American Eugenics in a New American Gilded Age. Despite the weak laws and strong propaganda, America remains classist and racist. Racism is unavoidable because it is institutional and because in psychopathic market economies, where the elite receive the lion’s share of the village’s wealth, racism works as a selection tool to determine who gets the remaining crumbs and how much.
The first Gilded Age was the era from post-Civil War/ post-Reconstruction Era from 1865 to 1930. This time in American history saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. There was a great increase in ethnic and racial diversity. The economic gap between rich and poor was great. At the end of this Gilded Age, the elite of America and their institutions began supporting a pseudo-science called eugenics that promised to help solve the social problems of that age.
From its beginning, eugenics has been supported by prominent thinkers, including Plato, Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill. More, eugenics was an academic discipline at many colleges and universities.
American Eugenics was conceived at the onset of the twentieth century and was implemented by America’s wealthiest, most powerful, most learned and most influential individuals and institutions, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Harriman railroad fortune (the Bush family fortune comes from deep, intimate business relationships with the Harriman family), Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, the American Medical Association, Margaret Sanger, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Yerkes, Woodrow Wilson, the American Museum of Natural History, the American Genetic Association and a sweeping array of government agencies from the obscure Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics to the U.S. State Department.
American eugenicists sought to methodically terminate all the racial groups, ethnic groups and social classes they disliked, feared or deemed a threat to established power, then or later on.
Their goal was to sterilize fourteen million people in the United States and millions more worldwide—the “lower tenth.” Afterwards, they planned to eradicate the remaining lowest tenth until only a pure Nordic super race remained on the face of the earth.
American eugenicists exported their philosophy to nations throughout the world including Nazi Germany. American elite, through foundations, gave grants to Germany for its eugenics program.
The American Eugenics Society was organized in 1921, following the Second International Conference on Eugenics held in New York City in that year. In 1972, the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed The Society for the Study of Social Biology.
These modern economic times have been called the New Gilded Age because it compares with the first Gilded Age. Today’s economic and social conditions, including the enormous inequality that is becoming greater (the gap between the elite and the poor), mirror those of yesteryear. White Supremacist books like The Bell Curve have been legitimized and praised by the status quo. Eugenic ideas are circulating again, but this time with fury, thus greater power.
Eugenics and genocide is synonymous. This is because eugenics provides a big justification for genocide.
A 1911 study, financed by the Carnegie Institution, identified eighteen possible methods of implementing eugenics in American and around the world. Gas chambers were deemed to be the most effective method, but it was felt that American society was not yet prepared to accept them (and this is where the Germans got first got their idea for gas chambers). Thus,a number of other eugenic methods were adopted, most notably mass sterilization. By marshaling government forces to continually identify and sterilize those citizens deemed unfit for reproduction, it was estimated that the ultimate goal of the master race could be achieved over a period of generations.
The world is running out of any kind of paying work and because work in America is rewarded and rewarded along psychopathic-defined class lines, the bottom twenty percent—mostly minorities, single adult women, disabled, gays/lesbians (despite the media hype, many are poor), the poor, so forth—will be hopelessly unemployed in the future. What is to be done with these people that industry and power elite have no use for and are loathe to support? These people are negative numbers on the balance sheets of a corporate country.
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
Of the anti-life system
by Eric V. Encina
"A society that allows high levels of inequality is in essence killing its own citizens." Rochie Saks
THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS that is life-killing, WHICH IS BANKERS-MADE AND INTENTIONAL IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ELITE, BANKERS, FINANCIERS, FOR THE CORRUPT LEADERS TO PLUNDER US AND THE INNOCENTS AND ALL HUMANITY FURTHER FOR THEIR OWN WANTON GREED AND AVARICE OF BLOOD MONEY.
THESE FIENDISH SUCKERS, VULTURES, CUCKOOS, AUTHORS OF ABORTION INDUSTRY IN WHICH THEY MAKE MONEY, AUTOGENOCIDES, LEECHES CAN CREATE OPPORTUNITY LIKE THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS IN WHICH THEY CAN CONTINUE PRESERVING THEIR STATUS QOU AND THUS CONTINUE PILLAGING HUMANITY AND MURDERING THE INNOCENTS.
They are worse than colonizers of the past. There seems to be no possible forgiveness unto them.
Under the present debt based-economy anti-life systems and policies, there are increasing thousands upon thousands to millions of our people from families to children begging for food and living in utter destitution while prioritizing the payments of interest to IMF and WB that are hostile to human life.
Poverty that is rooted from debt finance-population control-abortion-induced system and policies, is a kind of murder. TO KEEP THE PEOPLE IN THE BONDAGE OF POVERTY, DEBT AND INTEREST while pressure to legalize and actually killing the unborn IS MURDER.
Almost every Filipino politician prostitutes themselves to the elite, international and foreign bankers, multinational corporations, big business that all HOSTILE TO HUMAN LIFE, and sell out land and people to global manipulators that target us to autogenocide in just one click of the mouse when time comes.
The savage cruelty cruelties of killing the innocent unborn children by UNPFA-USAID-back up-sponsored population control programs in the Philippines and thus accompanied by hunger, starvation of families and children in the countryside, the absence of supports to farming families, and the deaths of the innocents are all intentional. The society under the present anti-life systems and policies intentionally kills our own people because the wealthy do not want to share the wealth and because they want to follow the policies of the global manipulators.
Job Propaganda: A Great Deception.
The advertisement of the abundance of jobs that the government departments offer and being promoted by the media constantly ACTUALLY DO NOT exist in reality. JOB WITH DISCRIMINATIONS AND ANTI-LIFE POLICIES.
It is just a ploy, a propaganda to deceive people into believing that the government is working for the people. There are millions of unemployed Filipinos, lining up desperately hoping for any possible jobs to them.
Eric V. Encina
eric_encina@yahoo.com
AUTOGENOCIDES AND EUGENICS TO SOLVE POVERTY
THE ABORTIONISTS, RACISTS, EUGENICISTS AND EUTHANASIANISTS BELIEVE THAT:
It is better and easier, cheaper and faster to kill the weak and the innocents and those undesired groups of people than to help them live decently.
Ordinary people are pushed deeper into debt and other crises like homelessness, hunger, disease and despair.
The common people, the innocent and the powerless people are being left to their own devices to survive without resources or enough resources to survive or have any kind of a quality of life. THIS IS INTENTIONALLY DONE BY THOSE POWERFUL FEW so that they can continue to arrogate themselves of the wealth of the earth.
Social safety nets and jobs programs are continually removed or altered or gone to discourage keeping the babies or children—that is tantamount to pressure women, families to kill their own babies both born and unborn.
Because of this measure, this forces poverty, reinforces poverty and depresses the quality of life to the point people start dying in record numbers. Thousands of abortion illegally done in the Philippines annually plus the deaths of the children in sickness, diseases, hunger, starvation and malnutrition and the increasing cases of suicide arising from survival problems in the countryside.
Why Autogenocide?
In a 1978 letter of resignation from his position of president of the UAW, Douglas Fraser wrote, “I believe leaders of the business community, with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in our country --a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society…”
Autogenocide has been solving the population problems of the American elite since the beginning of the country. Its been applied in many different forms over the centuries: small pox blankets and starvation for Indians; cannons fired at protesters in the mid-1800’s, the disappearances of little towns who resisted selling out to the Railroad Barons; the CIA introduction of crack to ghetto neighborhoods; criminalizing everything to keep the prisons full of members of certain groups; letting Dickensian poverty in its modern form make people suffer and die prematurely. Thus, American Autogenocide is “business as usual, ” making American Autogenocide inherently institutional.
American autogenocide hides the deficiencies of American-Anglo Saxon (AASAX) capitalism until it controls all the markets of the world. Capitalism, by its nature alone, simply cannot provide enough paying work for all the workers who need work in America. More, the number of jobs is declining while the number of workers is rising. Quite simply: industry has no use for many people.
Killing off the excess population is cheaper, easier and faster than having to deal with them. In capitalistic thought and lexicon, this is called “efficiency.”
Low, non- or negative producers are costly for a pay-as-you-go, you’re-on-your-own (YOYO), pull-yourself-up-with-your-bootstraps merchant society and psychopathic mentality. People without work or with little work and/or without money, still need food, shelter, emergency help, medical care, so forth.
Since the famous “restructuring” of the economy (which is also a restructuring of society back to a close resemblance of the old white patriarchal power hierarchy), more and more people—usually those from the lower tiers of society--can not earn enough money to properly live. This leads to tax money spent on social and emergency services. The rich complain that the tax money could have been better used—used for the priorities of the elite: tax reduction; reduction of capital gains taxes to zero; greater dividends to rich investor; huge salaries and pay packages to CEOs; so forth.
As mentioned above, the political and economic elite are restructuring society back to its original institutional, constitutional model of plutocracy and its support model, the elite psychopathic paternal hierarchy of subordination.
Autogenocide is utilitarian but the sacrifice of the victims is not for the benefit of the community, but for the benefit of the economic and political elite.
Now that the country’s infrastructure is in place and hardwired into the federal government, surplus people aren’t needed and won’t be needed in the future.
The wealthy elite and many big businesses are against paying taxes (cuts into their net profits) and governments (local, state and federal) have to raise taxes to support the poor and disenfranchised. Eliminate as much poor as you can so the demand for helping them (and for taxes to do it) drops.
Too many unwanted people might figure it out and organize themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Too many people with no hope, no hope for the future and nothing to lose can result in organizing, protests, strikes and rage-fueled riots.
Too many poor, disenfranchised and/or minorities with votes threaten the established power and wealth structures. Within 50 years, it is projected that there will be more minorities than whites. This new majority could take out the elite, white psychopathic system. This makes the current autogenocide a “preemptive” genocide. It guarantees continued power and wealth of the elite by keeping the majority of votes in the hands of whites.
It is negative population control. America is running out of room for its current population which is continually expanding. More, there is a current global “food shortage.” Over population can result in greater pollution, social suffering, epidemics and greater food shortages. In the mind of psychopathic leaders, somebody has to be removed, so the powerless—the people few will speak up for—are quietly and invisibly removed.
Autogenocide can remove enough people to let the earth heal so the rich and powerful can continue plundering it and enslaving the world’s populations.
Autogenocide is the perfect way for the elite to thin out the classes so they are disappeared or more manageable. Not only that, everyone gets the invisible messages of terror, so they are more likely to do as they are told.
Autogenocide tells everyone in the village what their place is and what happens to those who “fail” or “fall.” It doesn’t matter if the loser were destined to fail. In a highly materialistic, pay-as-you-go-society there are no margins for compassion and empathy. Those things don’t make money but cost it.
In the end, American autogenocide has always been about maintaining the current power structure and System, that acts like a modern (evolved) version of the colonial period power structure and System. The only difference is that modern politicians don’t wear broad-coats and powdered wigs.
Faye Weldon, British writer and feminist said, “Everything has changed but nothing is different” about feminism. The same thing can be said about American government since its beginning to now.
23. New American Eugenics in a New American Gilded Age. Despite the weak laws and strong propaganda, America remains classist and racist. Racism is unavoidable because it is institutional and because in psychopathic market economies, where the elite receive the lion’s share of the village’s wealth, racism works as a selection tool to determine who gets the remaining crumbs and how much.
The first Gilded Age was the era from post-Civil War/ post-Reconstruction Era from 1865 to 1930. This time in American history saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. There was a great increase in ethnic and racial diversity. The economic gap between rich and poor was great. At the end of this Gilded Age, the elite of America and their institutions began supporting a pseudo-science called eugenics that promised to help solve the social problems of that age.
From its beginning, eugenics has been supported by prominent thinkers, including Plato, Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill. More, eugenics was an academic discipline at many colleges and universities.
American Eugenics was conceived at the onset of the twentieth century and was implemented by America’s wealthiest, most powerful, most learned and most influential individuals and institutions, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Harriman railroad fortune (the Bush family fortune comes from deep, intimate business relationships with the Harriman family), Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, the American Medical Association, Margaret Sanger, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Yerkes, Woodrow Wilson, the American Museum of Natural History, the American Genetic Association and a sweeping array of government agencies from the obscure Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics to the U.S. State Department.
American eugenicists sought to methodically terminate all the racial groups, ethnic groups and social classes they disliked, feared or deemed a threat to established power, then or later on.
Their goal was to sterilize fourteen million people in the United States and millions more worldwide—the “lower tenth.” Afterwards, they planned to eradicate the remaining lowest tenth until only a pure Nordic super race remained on the face of the earth.
American eugenicists exported their philosophy to nations throughout the world including Nazi Germany. American elite, through foundations, gave grants to Germany for its eugenics program.
The American Eugenics Society was organized in 1921, following the Second International Conference on Eugenics held in New York City in that year. In 1972, the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed The Society for the Study of Social Biology.
These modern economic times have been called the New Gilded Age because it compares with the first Gilded Age. Today’s economic and social conditions, including the enormous inequality that is becoming greater (the gap between the elite and the poor), mirror those of yesteryear. White Supremacist books like The Bell Curve have been legitimized and praised by the status quo. Eugenic ideas are circulating again, but this time with fury, thus greater power.
Eugenics and genocide is synonymous. This is because eugenics provides a big justification for genocide.
A 1911 study, financed by the Carnegie Institution, identified eighteen possible methods of implementing eugenics in American and around the world. Gas chambers were deemed to be the most effective method, but it was felt that American society was not yet prepared to accept them (and this is where the Germans got first got their idea for gas chambers). Thus,a number of other eugenic methods were adopted, most notably mass sterilization. By marshaling government forces to continually identify and sterilize those citizens deemed unfit for reproduction, it was estimated that the ultimate goal of the master race could be achieved over a period of generations.
The world is running out of any kind of paying work and because work in America is rewarded and rewarded along psychopathic-defined class lines, the bottom twenty percent—mostly minorities, single adult women, disabled, gays/lesbians (despite the media hype, many are poor), the poor, so forth—will be hopelessly unemployed in the future. What is to be done with these people that industry and power elite have no use for and are loathe to support? These people are negative numbers on the balance sheets of a corporate country.
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
Over Population Lies?
overpopulation
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION
by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
Having considered some of the ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance, we can look more closely at the concept of "overpopulation." All too often, overpopulation is thought of simply as crowding: too many people in a given area, too high a population density. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China and India lived in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska), this country would still have a smaller population density than England, Holland, or Belgium." *31
The appropriate response is "So what?" Density is generally irrelevant to questions of overpopulation. For instance, if brute density were the criterion, one would have to conclude that Africa is "underpopulated," because it has only 55 people per square mile, while Europe (excluding the USSR) has 261 and Japan 857. *32 A more sophisticated measure would take into consideration the amount of Africa not covered by desert or "impenetrable" forest. *33 This more habitable portion is just a little over half the continent's area, giving an effective population density of 117 per square mile. That's still only about a fifth of that in the United Kingdom. Even by 2020, Africa's effective density is projected to grow to only about that of France today (266), and few people would consider France excessively crowded or overpopulated.
When people think of crowded countries, they usually contemplate places like the Netherlands (1,031 per square mile), Taiwan (1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). Even those don't necessarily signal overpopulation—after all, the Dutch seem to be thriving, and doesn't Hong Kong have a booming economy and fancy hotels? In short, if density were the standard of overpopulation, few nations (and certainly not Earth itself) would be likely to be considered overpopulated in the near future. The error, we repeat, lies in trying to define overpopulation in terms of density; it has long been recognized that density per se means very little. *34
The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to the area's carrying capacity. When is an area overpopulated? When its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources (or converting renewable resources into nonrenewable ones) and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. In short, if the long-term carrying capacity of an area is clearly being degraded by its current human occupants, that area is overpopulated. *35
By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated. Africa is overpopulated now because, among other indications, its soils and forests are rapidly being depleted—and that implies that its carrying capacity for human beings will be lower in the future than it is now. The United States is overpopulated because it is depleting its soil and water resources and contributing mightily to the destruction of global environmental systems. Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union, and other rich nations are overpopulated because of their massive contributions to the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, among many other reasons.
Almost all the rich nations are overpopulated because they are rapidly drawing down stocks of resources around the world. They don't live solely on the land in their own nations. Like the profligate son of our earlier analogy, they are spending their capital with no thought for the future.
It is especially ironic that Forbes considered the Netherlands not to be overpopulated. This is such a common error that it has been known for two decades as the "Netherlands Fallacy." *36 The Netherlands can support 1,031 people per square mile only because the rest of the world does not. In 1984-86, the Netherlands imported almost 4 million tons of cereals, 130,000 tons of oils, and 480,000 tons of pulses (peas, beans, lentils). It took some of these relatively inexpensive imports and used them to boost their production of expensive exports—330,000 tons of milk and 1.2 million tons of meat. The-Netherlands also extracted about a half-million tons of fishes from the sea during this period, and imported more in the form of fish meal. *37
The Netherlands is also a major importer of minerals, bringing in virtually all the iron, antimony, bauxite, copper, tin, etc., that it requires. Most of its fresh water is "imported" from upstream nations via the Rhine River. The Dutch built their wealth using imported energy. Then, in the 1970s, the discovery of a large gas field in the northern part of the nation allowed the Netherlands temporarily to export as gas roughly the equivalent in energy of the petroleum it continued to import. But when the gas fields (which represent about twenty years' worth of Dutch energy consumption at current rates) are exhausted, Holland will once again depend heavily on the rest of the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38
In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty of the Netherlands, and are not living on it now. Before World War II, they drew raw materials from their colonies; today they still depend on the resources of much of the world. Saying that the Netherlands is thriving with a density of 1,031 people per square mile simply ignores that those 1,031 Dutch people far exceed the carrying capacity of that square mile.
This "carrying-capacity" definition of overpopulation is the one used in this book. *39 It is important to understand that under this definition a condition of overpopulation might be corrected with no change in the number of people. For instance, the impact of today's 665 million Africans on their resources and environment theoretically might be reduced to the point where the continent would no longer be overpopulated. To see whether this would be possible, population growth would have to be stopped, appropriate assistance given to peasant farmers, and certain other important reforms instituted. Similarly, dramatic changes in American lifestyle might suffice to end overpopulation in the United States without a large population reduction.
But, for now and the foreseeable future, Africa and the United States will remain overpopulated—and will probably become even more so. To say they are not because, if people changed their ways, overpopulation might be eliminated is simply wrong—overpopulation is defined by the animals that occupy the turf, behaving as they naturally behave, not by a hypothetical group that might be substituted for them. [p.p. 37-40, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, THE POPULATION EXPLOSION; Simon and Schuster, 1990. Phone: 212-698-7000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-698-7000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Cairo, 5 - 13 September 1994
TOO MANY RICH PEOPLE :
Weighing Relative Burdens on the Planet
by Paul Ehrlich
Concern about population problems among citizens of rich countries generally focuses on rapid population growth in most poor nations. But the impact of humanity on Earth's life support systems is not just determined by the number of people alive on the planet. It also depends on how those people behave. When this is considered, an entirely different picture emerges: the main population problem is in wealthy countries. There are, in fact, too many rich people.
The amount of resources each person consumes, and the damage done by the technologies used to supply them, need to be taken as much into account as the size of the population. In theory, the three factors should be multiplied together to obtain an accurate measurement of the impact on the planet*. Unhappily, Governments do not keep statistics that allow the consumption and technology factors to be readily measured—so scientists substitute per capita energy consumption to give a measure of the effect each person has on the environment.
USING AND CONSUMING
In traditional societies—more or less in balance with their environments—that damage may be self-repairing. Wood cut for fires or structures regrows, soaking up the carbon dioxide produced when it was burned. Water extracted from streams is replaced by rainfall. Soils in fields are regenerated with the help of crop residues and animal manures. Wastes are broken down and reconverted into nutrients by the decomposer organisms of natural ecosystems.
At the other end of the spectrum, paving over fields and forests with concrete and asphalt, mining the coal and iron necessary for steel production with all its associated land degradation, and building and operating automobiles, trains and aeroplanes that spew pollutants into the atmosphere, are all energy-intensive processes. So are drilling for and transporting oil and gas, producing plastics, manufacturing chemicals (from DDT and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to chlorofluorocarbons and laundry detergents) and building power plants and dams. Industrialized agriculture uses enormous amounts of energy—for ploughing, planting, fertilizing and controlling weeds and insect pests and for harvesting, processing, shipping, packing, storing and selling foods. So does industrialized forestry for timber and paper production.
PAYING THE PRICE
Incidents such as Chernobyl and oil spills are among the environmental prices paid for mobilizing commercial energy—and soil erosion, desertification, acid rain, global warming, destruction of the ozone layer and the toxification of the entire planet are among the costs of using it.
In all, humanity's high-energy activities amount to a large-scale attack on the integrity of Earth's ecosystems and the critical services they provide. These include control of the mix of gases in the atmosphere (and thus of the climate); running of the hydrologic cycle which brings us dependable flows of fresh water; generation and maintenance of fertile soils; disposal of wastes; recycling of the nutrients essential to agriculture and forestry; control of the vast majority of potential crop pests; pollination of many crops; provision of food from the sea; and maintenance of a vast genetic library from which humanity has already withdrawn the very basis of civilization in the form of crops and domestic animals.
THE RELATIVE IMPACT
The average rich-nation citizen used 7.4 kilowatts (kW) of energy in 1990—a continuous flow of energy equivalent to that powering 74 100-watt lightbulbs. The average citizen of a poor nation, by contrast, used only 1 kW. There were 1.2 billion people in the rich nations, so their total environmental impact, as measured by energy use, was 1.2 billion x 7.4 kW, or 8.9 terawatts (TW)—8.9 trillion watts. Some 4.1 billion people lived in poor nations in 1990, hence their total impact (at 1 kW a head) was 4.1 TW.
The relatively small population of rich people therefore accounts for roughly two-thirds of global environmental destruction, as measured by energy use. From this perspective, the most important population problem is overpopulation in the industrialized nations.
The United States poses the most serious threat of all to human life support systems. It has a gigantic population, the third largest on Earth, more than a quarter of a billion people. Americans are superconsumers, and use inefficient technologies to feed their appetites. Each, on average, uses 11 kW of energy, twice as much as the average Japanese, more than three times as much as the average Spaniard, and over 100 times as much as an average Bangladeshi. Clearly, achieving an average family size of 1.5 children in the United States (which would still be larger than the 1.3 child average in Spain) would benefit the world much more than a similar success in Bangladesh.
CLOSING THE GAP
Professor John P. Holdren of the University of California has generated an "optimistic" scenario for solving the population- resource-environment predicament. This envisages population growth halted at 10 billion a century from now, and rich nations reducing their energy consumption to 3 kW a head. His population target is feasible with modest effort, and the reduction in energy consumption could be achieved with technologies already in hand—given the necessary political will—and would produce an increase in the quality of life. This would provide room for needed economic growth in poor nations, which could triple their per-person energy use to 3 kW. Thus the gap between rich and poor nations would be closed, while the total world impact would increase from 13 TW to 30 TW (10 billion x 3 kW).
Will the environment a century hence be able to support 2.3 times as much activity as today? It's questionable, but perhaps with care it could, at least temporarily. Success would require a degree of cooperation, care for our fellow human beings, and respect for the environment that are nowhere evident now. But society has shown it can change rapidly when the time is ripe; let us hope that the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development will help ripen the time.
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* The relationship is summarized in the classic I=PAT identity: Impact is equal to Population size, multiplied by per capita consumption (Affluence), in turn multiplied by a measure of the damage done by the Technologies chosen to supply each unit of consumption.
Mr. Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University in the United States. His most recent books, both co-authored with his wife Anne, are "The Population Explosion" (Simon and Schuster, 1990) and "Healing the Planet" (Addison-Wesley, 1991). The feature originally appeared in Vol. 6, No.3, 1994 of "Our Planet". The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of UNEP.
UNEP Feature 1994/8
SCIENTISTS CHALLENGE BUSINESS PROFESSOR TO BET ON HUMAN FUTURE
STANFORD—Asserting that there is now a "brownlash" in the form of deceptive books and articles downplaying environmental problems, scientists from Stanford's Department of Biological Sciences challenged Julian Simon to bet on significant trends in the human future.
Simon, a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, has repeatedly claimed that all environmental trends are positive and that "doomsaying environmentalists" are wrong. In the San Francisco Chronicle of Friday, May 12, he suggested environmentalists bet that "any trend pertaining to material human welfare" will get worse, since Simon writes they will "all" get better.
The Stanford scientists, ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich and climatologist Stephen H. Schneider actually challenged Simon to bet on 15 current trends whose direction is not positive now, betting $1000 that each will get worse over a ten year stretch into the future. They pledged themselves to be bound by the decision of "a panel of scientists chosen by the President of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005."
Among the negative trends they bet would continue were:
* Rising global temperature.
* Shrinking amount of cropland per person.
* Decline in amount of wheat and rice grown per person.
* Shrinking area of tropical moist forests.
* Decreasing oceanic fish harvest per person.
* Increasing number of people dying of AIDS.
* Declining human sperm count.
* Growing gap between rich and poor.
The Stanford scientists explained that they had chosen "15 trends to avoid the result of a statistical fluke" deciding the bet, as may well have happened in a previous bet on a minor issue marginally related to environmental quality.
They pointed out that the trends in their wager "are more relevant to human welfare than direct ones such as the prices of metals" and that deterioration in those trends "makes society increasingly vulnerable to severe negative impacts."
They concluded "We hope we lose all parts of the bet, and will be doing everything in our power to make that happen.
Sadly, the misinformation you are spreading, Mr. Simon, increases the chances we will win the bet—while humanity loses."
The complete text of the response sent to the Chronicle follows:
IT'S NO TIME TO HEED THE BROWNLASH
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Stephen H. Schneider
There is now a campaign of deceptive books and articles designed to persuade people that all is well on the environmental front. The basic message of this campaign is that some favorable trends show green concerns to be "doomsaying." Our basic message is that indirect trends such as those listed below are more relevant to human welfare than direct ones such as the prices of metals.
Julian Simon has been a leader in this campaign. He is best known for his belief that resources are infinite (he wrote in 1980 that the theoretical limit to the amount of copper that might be available to human beings was "the total weight of the universe"!) and that population can and should grow indefinitely. He's still at it ("Earth's Doomsayers are Wrong," Chronicle, May 12), this time citing a 1986 report prepared by social scientists for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that was subsequently protested by a substantial number of Academy scientists. Somehow he missed the 1994 statement from the NAS and 57 other national academies of science worldwide that contradicted his position.
He also ignored the 1993 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity," signed by some 1700 leading scientists, including over half of all living Nobel Laureates in science, which reads in part: "A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated....A new ethic is required—a new attitude towards discharging our responsibility for caring for ourselves and for the earth. We must recongize the earth's limited capacity to provide for us. We must recognize its fragility....The scientists issuing this warning hope that our message will reach and affect people everywhere. We need the help of many."
It is impossible to say exactly how direct measures of human well-being will be impacted by the general deterioration of Earth's life-support systems. We know, however, that deterioration makes society increasingly vulnerable to severe negative impacts.
One of us (PRE) once made the mistake of being goaded into making a bet with Simon on a matter of marginal environmental importance (prices of metals). Simon says he still wants to make bets. We are thus now challenging Simon to bet on "trends" of much greater significance to long-term human material welfare.
We wager $1000 per trend that each of the following 15 continental and global scale indicators will change in the direction indicated ("get worse") over the next decade:
1. The three years 2002-2004 will on average be warmer than 1992-1994 (rapid climatic change associated with global warming could pose a major threat of increasing droughts and floods).
2. There will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994 (carbon dioxide is the most important gas driving global warming).
3. There will be more nitrous oxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994 (nitrous oxide is another greenhouse gas that is increasing due to human disruption of the nitrogen cycle).
4. The concentration of tropospheric ozone globally will be greater in 2004 than in 1994 (tropospheric ozone has important deleterious effects on human health and crop production)
5. Emissions of sulfur dioxide in Asia will be signficantly greater in 2004 than in 1994 (sulfur dioxide becomes sulphuric acid in the atmosphere, the principal component of acid rain, and it is associated with direct damage to human health).
6. There will be less fertile cropland per person in 2004 than in 1994 (as the population grows, some of Earth's best farmland is being paved over).
7. There will be less agricultural soil per person in 2004 than in 1994 (about a quarter of the world's topsoil has been lost since World War II, and erosion virtually everywhere far exceeds rates of soil replacement).
8. There will be on average less rice and wheat grown per person in 2002-2004 than in 1992-1994 (rice and wheat are the two most important crops consumed by people).
9. In developing nations there will be less firewood available per person in 2004 than in 1994 (more than a billion people today depend on fuelwood to meet their energy needs).
10. The remaining area of tropical moist forests will be significantly smaller in 2004 than in 1994 (those forests are the repositories of some of humanity's most precious living resources, including the basis for many modern pharmaceuticals worldwide).
11. The oceanic fisheries harvest per person will continue its downward trend and thus in 2004 will be smaller than in 1994 (overfishing, ocean pollution, and coastal wetlands destruction will continue to take their toll).
12. There will be fewer plant and animal species still extant in 2004 than in 1994 (continuing habitat destruction is wiping out organisms that are the working parts of humanity's life-support systems).
13. More people will die of AIDS in 2004 than did in 1994 (as the disease takes off in Asia).
14. Between 1994 and 2004, sperm counts of human males will continue to decline and reproductive disorders to increase (over the last 50 years there has been a roughly 40 percent decline in the count worldwide. We bet this trend will continue due to the widespread use of hormone-disrupting synthetic organic chemical compounds).
15. The gap in wealth between the richest 10 percent of humanity and the poorest 10 percent will be greater in 2004 than in 1994.
We "doomsayers," of course, are not arguing that there are only unfavorable human or environmental trends, rather that too many of the most important are very unfavorable and thus demand prompt attention. Virtually all long-term trends have short-term fluctuations, thus we challenge Simon on 15 trends to avoid the result of a statistical fluke deciding this bet. To determine the direction of the trends, we will accept the decision of a panel of scientists chosen by the President of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Referees will be necessary, since terms like "significantly" (e.g., 5 and 10 above) and estimates of such things as agricultural soils involve questions of judgment. But there is an empirical basis on which competent scientists can make reasonable judgments.
The bet is binding on our heirs, and our winnings will go to non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving environmental quality and human well-being. Since humanity is gambling with its life-support systems, we hope to lose all parts of the bet.
In fact, we will be doing everything in our power to make that happen. Sadly, the complacency and misinformation you are spreading, Mr. Simon, increases the chances we will win the bet—while all of humanity loses. We hope this wager will cause you to reconsider the risks you so blythly suggest the American public undertake by promoting the fantasy of benign indefinite growth.
Paul R. Ehrlich and Stephen H. Schneider are Professors in the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.
A review of:
Julian Simon's THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE
by Herman Daly
This book is an all-out attack on neomalthusian or limits-to-growth thinking and a plea for more population and economic growth, both now and into the indefinite future. It is not a shotgun attack. Rather it is an attack with a single-shot rifle aimed at a single (but critical) premise of the neomalthusian position.
If Simon hits the target, then neomalthusian arguments collapse. If Simon misses the target, then all neomalthusian first principles remain unscathed, and Simon's progrowth arguments collapse. The critical premise that Simon attacks is that of the finitude of resources, including waste absorption capacities. Other premises from which neomalthusians argue include the entropy law and the vulnerability of ecological life-support services.
Simon's theoretical argument against the finitude of resources is that:
"The word "finite" originates in mathematics, in which context we all learn it as schoolchildren. But even in mathematics the word's meaning is far from unambiguous. It can have two principal meanings, sometimes with an apparent contradiction between them. For example, the length of a one-inch line is finite in the sense that it bounded at both ends. But the line within the endpoints contains an infinite number of points; these points cannot be counted, because they have no defined size. Therefore the number of points in that one-inch segment is not finite. Similarly, the quantity of copper that will ever be available to us is not finite, because there is no method (even in principle) of making an appropriate count of it, given the problem of the economic definition of "copper," the possibility of creating copper or its economic equivalent from other materials, and thus the lack of boundaries to the sources from which copper might be drawn."
Two pages later he drives home the main point in connection with oil:
"Our energy supply is non-finite, and oil is an important example . . . the number of oil wells that will eventually produce oil, and in what quantities, is not known or measurable at present and probably never will be, and hence is not meaningfully finite."
The fallacy in the last sentence quoted is evident. If I have seven gallons of oil in seven one gallon cans, then it is countable and finite. If I dump one gallon of oil into each of the seven seas and let it mix for a year, those seven gallons would no longer be countable, and hence not "meaningfully finite, " therefore infinite. This is straightforward nonsense.
The fallacy concerning the copper is obscured by the strange fact that Simon begins with a correct distinction regarding infinity of distance and infinity of divisibility of a finite distance, and then as soon as he moves from one-inch lines to copper with nothing but the word "similarly" to bridge the gap, he forgets the distinction. It would be a wonderful exercise for a class in freshman logic to find the parallel between Simon's argument and Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. Recall that Zeno "proved" that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise that had a finite head start on him. While Achilles traverses the distance from his starting point to that of the tortoise, the tortoise advances a certain distance, and while Achilles advances this distance, the tortoise makes a further advance, and so on, ad infinitum. Thus Achilles will never catch up.
Zeno's paradox confounds an infinity of subdivisions of a distance, which is finite, with an infinity of distance. This is exactly parallel to what Simon has done. He has confused an infinity of possible boundary lines between copper and noncopper with an infinity of amount of copper. We cannot, he says, make an "appropriate count" of copper because the set of all resources can be subdivided in many ways with many possible boundaries for the subset copper because resources are "infinitely" substitutable. Since copper cannot be simply counted like beans in a jar, and since what cannot be counted is not finite, it "follows" that copper is not finite, or copper is infinite.
Simon has argued from the premise of an "infinite" substitutability among different elements within a (finite) set to the conclusion of the infinity of the set itself. But no amount of rearrangement of divisions within a finite set can make the set infinite. His demonstration that mankind will never exhaust its resource base rests on the same logical fallacy as Zeno's demonstration that Achilles will never exhaust the distance between himself and the tortoise. Simon's argument therefore fails even if we grant his premise of infinite substitutability, which gets us rather close to alchemy. Copper is after all an element, and the transmutation of elements is more difficult than the phrase "infinite substitutability" implies! Indeed, Simon never tells us whether "infinite substitutability" means infinite substitutability at declining costs, constant costs, increasing costs, or at infinite costs! Of course Simon could simply assert that the total set of all resources is infinite, but this would be a bald assertion, not a conclusion from an argument based on substitutability, which is what he has attempted.
Simon appeals to the unlimited power of technology to increase the service yielded per unit of resource as further evidence of the essentially nonfinite nature of resources. If resource productivity (ratio of service to resources) were potentially infinite, then we could maintain an ever growing value of services with an ever smaller flow of resources. If Simon truly believes this, then he should join those neomalthusians who advocate limiting the resource flow precisely in order to force technological progress into the direction of improving total resource productivity and away from the recent direction of increasing intensity of resource use. Many neomalthusians advocate this even though they believe the scope for improvement is finite. If one believes the scope for improvement in resource productivity is infinite, then all the more reason to restrict the resource flow.
Those who are loud in their praise of Simon are the same people who would have bet on the tortoise, and are now betting on infinite resources. Simon's ultimate criterion for the validity of an argument seems to be willingness to "put your money where your mouth is." (See his grandstand offer on page 27 to bet anyone any amount, up to a $10,000 total, that the real price of any resource will not rise.) He suggests that the current heavy betting by speculators that the resource tortoise will stay ahead of the Achilles of demographic and economic growth is the best available evidence of the final outcome of the race. But it could in fact be the best available evidence that speculators are interested only in the short run, or that there is a sucker born every minute! In any case "put your money where your mouth is" is a challenge to intensity of belief, not correctness of belief. It is the adman's customary proof by bombastic proclamation.
But what about Simon's empirical evidence against resource finitude? It fares no better than his fallacious attempt at logical refutation. He leans heavily on two expert studies: "The Age of Substitutability" by Weinberg and Goeller (Science, February 20,1976), and Scarcity and Growth by Barnett and Morse.*1 His use of these studies is amazingly selective.
From Weinberg and Goeller he quotes optimistic findings of "infinite" substitutability among resources, assuming a future low-cost, abundant energy source. This buttresses Simon's earlier premise of "infinite" subdivisibility or substitutability among resources. But it does not lend support to his fallacious conclusion that resources are infinite and therefore growth forever is possible. More to the point, however, is that Weinberg and Goeller explicitly rule out any such conclusion by stating in their very first paragraph that their "Age of Substitutability" is a steady state. It assumes zero growth in population and energy use at the highest level that Weinberg and Goeller are willing to say is technically feasible. And they express serious reservations about the social and institutional feasibility of maintaining such a high consumption steady state.
Furthermore, the levels envisioned by Weinberg and Goeller, though cornicopian by general consent, are quite modest by Simon's standards: world population in the Age of Substitutability would be only 2.5 times the present population, and world energy use would be only 12 times present use. This implies a world per-capita energy usage of only 70 percent of current U.S. per capita use. The very study that Simon appeals to for empirical support of his unlimited growth position explicitly rejects the notion of unlimited growth—a fact that Simon fails to mention.
As further empirical evidence we are served a rehash of the Barnett an Morse study. Their finding was that the scarcity of most resources, as measure by per unit extractive costs and by relative prices, was decreasing rather than increasing from 1870 to 1957. Simon gives these arguments as evidence the resources are infinite.
There is no serious dispute about the Barnett and Morse numbers, but the conclusion that resources are becoming ever less scarce is hardly justified. The neomalthusians can reply that of course the prices of resources fall during a epoch of mineralogical bonanza. But the data cannot be decisive between these two views, since they cover only that epoch.
Barnett and Morse are careful to report an important exception to the general finding of falling resource prices: timber, whose price increased during the period. Simon's way of handling this exception is interesting. He first considers only mineral resources and applies the criterion of price as a measure of scarcity, explicitly rejecting all quantity-based indices. He thus shows, decline in scarcity of mineral resources. Later, in the context of food, he considers timber. This is a fair enough context, except that he switches his criterion of scarcity from price to quantity of timber growth. In this way he ca show decreasing timber scarcity by applying quantity measures, while showing decreasing minerals scarcity by applying price measures.
But an equally shifty neomalthusian could use quantity remaining in the ground to prove increasing scarcity of minerals, and relative price to prove increasing scarcity of timber. There is a serious debate about the proper measure of scarcity, as the report by Resources for the Future, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered,*2 demonstrates, but Simon is not engaged in that serious discussion. He grabs whatever number may be moving in the direction that fits the needs of the argument at hand and baptizes it as an index of whatever he is talking about. Two examples will illustrate:
First, Simon claims, after warning us to "grab your hat," that pollution has really been decreasing rather than increasing. To test this hypothesis most investigators would probably look at parts per million of various substances emitted into the air and water by human activities to see if they have been rising or falling over time. Simon, however, takes life expectancy as his index of pollution: increasing life expectancy indicates decreasing pollution. If one suggests that the increase in life expectancy mainly reflects improved control of infectious diseases, Simon redefines "pollutant" to include the smallpox virus and other germs. In this way an increase in emissions of noxious substances from the economy (what everyone but Simon means by "pollution") would not register until after it more than offset the improvement in life expectancy brought about by modern medicine. Thus Simon "measures" pollution by burying it in an aggregate, the other component of which offsets and overwhelms it.
The second example is the claim (we are again told to grab our hats) that the combined increases of income and population do not increase "pressure" on the land. His proof: the absolute amount of land per farm worker has been increasing in the United States and other countries. One might have thought that this was a consequence of mechanization of agriculture and that the increasing investment per acre in machinery, fertilizer, and pesticides represented pressure on the land, not to mention pressure on mines, wells, rivers, lakes, and so on.
Simon's demonstration that resources are infinite is, in my view, a coarse mixture of simple fallacy, omission of contrary evidence from his own expert sources and gross statistical misinterpretation. Since everything else hinges on the now exploded infinite resources proposition, we could well stop here. But there are other considerations less central to the argument of the book that beg for attention.
If, Simon notwithstanding, resources are indeed finite, then the other premises of the neomalthusians remain in vigor. The entropy law tells us not only that coal is finite, but that you can't burn the same lump twice. When burned, available energy is irreversibly depleted and unavailable energy is increased along with the dissipation of materials. If nature's sources and sinks were truly infinite, the fact that the flow between them was entropic would hardly matter. But with finite sources and sinks, the entropy law greatly increases the force of scarcity.
Although the words "entropy" or "second law of thermodynamics" remarkably do not occur once in a 400-page book on The Ultimate Resource, the concept is occasionally touched upon. There is a comment made in passing that marble and copper can be recycled, whereas energy cannot. This raises hopes that Simon may not be ignorant of the entropy law. These hopes are soon dashed when he softens the statement to "energy cannot be easily recycled." Later he tells us that "man's activities tend to increase the order and decrease the homogeneity of nature. Man tends to bring like elements together, to concentrate them."
That is the only part of the picture that Simon knows about. But the entropy law tells us there is another part—that to increase order in one part of the system requires the increase of disorder elsewhere, and that in net terms for the system as a whole the movement is toward disorder. In other words, more order and more matter and energy devoted to human bodies and artifacts mean less matter and energy and less order for the rest of the system, which includes all the other species on whose life-support services we and our economy depend. Simon is quite prepared to ruin the habitats of all other species by letting them (and future generations) bear the entropic costs of disorders that our own continuing growth entails. For Simon, however, this problem cannot exist because he believes resources and absorption capacities are infinite. But after he has once mastered the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise concerning infinity, his next homework assignment should be to find out about entropy. Until he has done these two things he should stop trying to write books for grownups about resources and population.
Part II of the book is on population and is dedicated to the proposition that the ultimate resource is people. The more the better, indefinitely. We are told that: "Even the proposition that population growth must stop sometime may not be very meaningful (see Chapter 3 on 'finitude')." We have already seen Chapter 3 on finitude and have discovered that it is sheer nonsense. I will spare the reader a recitation of all the propositions about population that self-destruct with the demise of Chapter 3.
There is a puzzling methodological inconsistency between Parts I and II. In Part I Simon is the total empiricist, trusting only in the extrapolation of recent trends of falling resource prices. Any a priori argument from first principles about reversal of trends due to increasing cost, diminishing returns, the end of a bonanza, or even the S-shape of the logistic curve characteristic of all empirically observed growth processes simply does not warrant consideration by this hard-headed empiricist. Yet in Part II we find Simon refusing to project population trends and relying on the theory of demographic transition to reverse the recent trend of population growth. His own graphs, used to demonstrate the unreliability of past population predictions, also show that a simple linear trend would have yielded much more accurate predictions in the 1920s than did the then current "twilight of parenthood" theories. Once again, whatever epistemological posture serves the immediate needs of argument is adopted. One is certainly free to choose whatever balance of theory and empiricism one thinks is most effective in getting at the truth, but the balance should not fluctuate so wildly, so often, and so opportunistically.
Simon values human life. More people are better than fewer people because each additional person's life has value for that person, his loved ones, and for society as a whole should he turn out to be a genius: an increase of 4,000 people is more likely to yield another Einstein, Mozart, or Michelangelo than an increase of only 400 people.
While I personally give zero weight to the notion that more births among today's poor and downtrodden masses will increase the probability of another Einstein or Mozart (or Hitler or Caligula?), I do agree that, other things equal, more human lives, and more lives of other species, are better than fewer. And I think that most of my fellow neomalthusians would agree than 10 billion people are better than 2 billion—as long as the 10 billion are not all alive at the same time!
This is the crucial point: neomalthusian policies seek to maximize the cumulative total of lives ever to be lived over time, at a sufficient per-capita standard for a good life. Simon wants to maximize the number of people simultaneously alive—and, impossibly, to maximize per-capita consumption at the same time. These two contradictory strategies are possible only if resources are infinite. If they are finite then maximizing the number of simultaneous lives means a reduction in carrying capacity, fewer people in future time periods, and a lower cumulative total of lives ever lived at a sufficient standard.
The difference is not, as Simon imagines, that he is "pro-life" and the neomalthusians are "anti-life." Rather it is that neomalthusians have a basic understanding of the biophysical world, whereas Simon still has not done his homework on Zeno's paradoxes of infinity, on the entropy law, on the importance of ecological life-support services provided by other species, and on the impossibility of the double maximization implied in his advocacy of "the greatest good for the greatest number."
Simon seems to believe that an avoided birth today implies the eternal nonexistence of a particular self-conscious person who would have enjoyed life. But as far as I know, the pairing of a particular self-consciousness with a particular birth is the greatest of mysteries. Perhaps birth control means that a particular existence is postponed rather than canceled. In other contexts, however, Simon proclaims that "birth control is simply a human right." When Kingsly Davis, Paul Ehrlich, or Garret Hardin advocate birth control they are sacrificing the unborn; but when Simon finds it convenient to his argument to endorse birth control, he is proclaiming a human right.
In this reviewer's opinion, Simon's book cannot stand up to even average critical scrutiny. Lots of bad books are written, and the best thing usually is to ignore them. I would have preferred to ignore this one, too, but judging from the publicity accorded Simon's recent articles, this book is likely to be hailed as a triumph by people who are starved for "optimism." Simon himself tells us that the optimistic conclusions he reached in his population studies helped to bring him out of a "depression of medically unusual duration," and he clearly wants to share the cure. But his cure is at best a sugar pill.
We must abandon the shallow, contrived optimism of growthmania once and for all. The end of growthmania is no cause for despair; it is a hopeful new beginning. To me the optimistic alternative is that of a steady state at a sufficient, sustainable level in which many future generations can rejoice in the loving study and care of God's creation.
Further prolongation of the current compulsive quest for infinite growth, power, and control is what I find depressing. We should learn to be good stewards of what is already under our dominion rather than seek always to enlarge that dominion. We who have done a poor job of managing a small domain should not trust ourselves to take over control of an ever larger "infinite" domain.
NOTE: This review appeared originally in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1982.
NOTES
1. Harold Barnett, and Chandler Morse, Scarcity and Growth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963).
2. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1979).
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The above review is from: [p.p. 282-289] STEADY STATE ECONOMICS, Daly; Island Press, 1991. ISBN 1-55963-071-X
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THE POPULATION EXPLOSION
by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
Having considered some of the ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance, we can look more closely at the concept of "overpopulation." All too often, overpopulation is thought of simply as crowding: too many people in a given area, too high a population density. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China and India lived in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska), this country would still have a smaller population density than England, Holland, or Belgium." *31
The appropriate response is "So what?" Density is generally irrelevant to questions of overpopulation. For instance, if brute density were the criterion, one would have to conclude that Africa is "underpopulated," because it has only 55 people per square mile, while Europe (excluding the USSR) has 261 and Japan 857. *32 A more sophisticated measure would take into consideration the amount of Africa not covered by desert or "impenetrable" forest. *33 This more habitable portion is just a little over half the continent's area, giving an effective population density of 117 per square mile. That's still only about a fifth of that in the United Kingdom. Even by 2020, Africa's effective density is projected to grow to only about that of France today (266), and few people would consider France excessively crowded or overpopulated.
When people think of crowded countries, they usually contemplate places like the Netherlands (1,031 per square mile), Taiwan (1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). Even those don't necessarily signal overpopulation—after all, the Dutch seem to be thriving, and doesn't Hong Kong have a booming economy and fancy hotels? In short, if density were the standard of overpopulation, few nations (and certainly not Earth itself) would be likely to be considered overpopulated in the near future. The error, we repeat, lies in trying to define overpopulation in terms of density; it has long been recognized that density per se means very little. *34
The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to the area's carrying capacity. When is an area overpopulated? When its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources (or converting renewable resources into nonrenewable ones) and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. In short, if the long-term carrying capacity of an area is clearly being degraded by its current human occupants, that area is overpopulated. *35
By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated. Africa is overpopulated now because, among other indications, its soils and forests are rapidly being depleted—and that implies that its carrying capacity for human beings will be lower in the future than it is now. The United States is overpopulated because it is depleting its soil and water resources and contributing mightily to the destruction of global environmental systems. Europe, Japan, the Soviet Union, and other rich nations are overpopulated because of their massive contributions to the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, among many other reasons.
Almost all the rich nations are overpopulated because they are rapidly drawing down stocks of resources around the world. They don't live solely on the land in their own nations. Like the profligate son of our earlier analogy, they are spending their capital with no thought for the future.
It is especially ironic that Forbes considered the Netherlands not to be overpopulated. This is such a common error that it has been known for two decades as the "Netherlands Fallacy." *36 The Netherlands can support 1,031 people per square mile only because the rest of the world does not. In 1984-86, the Netherlands imported almost 4 million tons of cereals, 130,000 tons of oils, and 480,000 tons of pulses (peas, beans, lentils). It took some of these relatively inexpensive imports and used them to boost their production of expensive exports—330,000 tons of milk and 1.2 million tons of meat. The-Netherlands also extracted about a half-million tons of fishes from the sea during this period, and imported more in the form of fish meal. *37
The Netherlands is also a major importer of minerals, bringing in virtually all the iron, antimony, bauxite, copper, tin, etc., that it requires. Most of its fresh water is "imported" from upstream nations via the Rhine River. The Dutch built their wealth using imported energy. Then, in the 1970s, the discovery of a large gas field in the northern part of the nation allowed the Netherlands temporarily to export as gas roughly the equivalent in energy of the petroleum it continued to import. But when the gas fields (which represent about twenty years' worth of Dutch energy consumption at current rates) are exhausted, Holland will once again depend heavily on the rest of the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38
In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty of the Netherlands, and are not living on it now. Before World War II, they drew raw materials from their colonies; today they still depend on the resources of much of the world. Saying that the Netherlands is thriving with a density of 1,031 people per square mile simply ignores that those 1,031 Dutch people far exceed the carrying capacity of that square mile.
This "carrying-capacity" definition of overpopulation is the one used in this book. *39 It is important to understand that under this definition a condition of overpopulation might be corrected with no change in the number of people. For instance, the impact of today's 665 million Africans on their resources and environment theoretically might be reduced to the point where the continent would no longer be overpopulated. To see whether this would be possible, population growth would have to be stopped, appropriate assistance given to peasant farmers, and certain other important reforms instituted. Similarly, dramatic changes in American lifestyle might suffice to end overpopulation in the United States without a large population reduction.
But, for now and the foreseeable future, Africa and the United States will remain overpopulated—and will probably become even more so. To say they are not because, if people changed their ways, overpopulation might be eliminated is simply wrong—overpopulation is defined by the animals that occupy the turf, behaving as they naturally behave, not by a hypothetical group that might be substituted for them. [p.p. 37-40, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, THE POPULATION EXPLOSION; Simon and Schuster, 1990. Phone: 212-698-7000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-698-7000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Cairo, 5 - 13 September 1994
TOO MANY RICH PEOPLE :
Weighing Relative Burdens on the Planet
by Paul Ehrlich
Concern about population problems among citizens of rich countries generally focuses on rapid population growth in most poor nations. But the impact of humanity on Earth's life support systems is not just determined by the number of people alive on the planet. It also depends on how those people behave. When this is considered, an entirely different picture emerges: the main population problem is in wealthy countries. There are, in fact, too many rich people.
The amount of resources each person consumes, and the damage done by the technologies used to supply them, need to be taken as much into account as the size of the population. In theory, the three factors should be multiplied together to obtain an accurate measurement of the impact on the planet*. Unhappily, Governments do not keep statistics that allow the consumption and technology factors to be readily measured—so scientists substitute per capita energy consumption to give a measure of the effect each person has on the environment.
USING AND CONSUMING
In traditional societies—more or less in balance with their environments—that damage may be self-repairing. Wood cut for fires or structures regrows, soaking up the carbon dioxide produced when it was burned. Water extracted from streams is replaced by rainfall. Soils in fields are regenerated with the help of crop residues and animal manures. Wastes are broken down and reconverted into nutrients by the decomposer organisms of natural ecosystems.
At the other end of the spectrum, paving over fields and forests with concrete and asphalt, mining the coal and iron necessary for steel production with all its associated land degradation, and building and operating automobiles, trains and aeroplanes that spew pollutants into the atmosphere, are all energy-intensive processes. So are drilling for and transporting oil and gas, producing plastics, manufacturing chemicals (from DDT and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to chlorofluorocarbons and laundry detergents) and building power plants and dams. Industrialized agriculture uses enormous amounts of energy—for ploughing, planting, fertilizing and controlling weeds and insect pests and for harvesting, processing, shipping, packing, storing and selling foods. So does industrialized forestry for timber and paper production.
PAYING THE PRICE
Incidents such as Chernobyl and oil spills are among the environmental prices paid for mobilizing commercial energy—and soil erosion, desertification, acid rain, global warming, destruction of the ozone layer and the toxification of the entire planet are among the costs of using it.
In all, humanity's high-energy activities amount to a large-scale attack on the integrity of Earth's ecosystems and the critical services they provide. These include control of the mix of gases in the atmosphere (and thus of the climate); running of the hydrologic cycle which brings us dependable flows of fresh water; generation and maintenance of fertile soils; disposal of wastes; recycling of the nutrients essential to agriculture and forestry; control of the vast majority of potential crop pests; pollination of many crops; provision of food from the sea; and maintenance of a vast genetic library from which humanity has already withdrawn the very basis of civilization in the form of crops and domestic animals.
THE RELATIVE IMPACT
The average rich-nation citizen used 7.4 kilowatts (kW) of energy in 1990—a continuous flow of energy equivalent to that powering 74 100-watt lightbulbs. The average citizen of a poor nation, by contrast, used only 1 kW. There were 1.2 billion people in the rich nations, so their total environmental impact, as measured by energy use, was 1.2 billion x 7.4 kW, or 8.9 terawatts (TW)—8.9 trillion watts. Some 4.1 billion people lived in poor nations in 1990, hence their total impact (at 1 kW a head) was 4.1 TW.
The relatively small population of rich people therefore accounts for roughly two-thirds of global environmental destruction, as measured by energy use. From this perspective, the most important population problem is overpopulation in the industrialized nations.
The United States poses the most serious threat of all to human life support systems. It has a gigantic population, the third largest on Earth, more than a quarter of a billion people. Americans are superconsumers, and use inefficient technologies to feed their appetites. Each, on average, uses 11 kW of energy, twice as much as the average Japanese, more than three times as much as the average Spaniard, and over 100 times as much as an average Bangladeshi. Clearly, achieving an average family size of 1.5 children in the United States (which would still be larger than the 1.3 child average in Spain) would benefit the world much more than a similar success in Bangladesh.
CLOSING THE GAP
Professor John P. Holdren of the University of California has generated an "optimistic" scenario for solving the population- resource-environment predicament. This envisages population growth halted at 10 billion a century from now, and rich nations reducing their energy consumption to 3 kW a head. His population target is feasible with modest effort, and the reduction in energy consumption could be achieved with technologies already in hand—given the necessary political will—and would produce an increase in the quality of life. This would provide room for needed economic growth in poor nations, which could triple their per-person energy use to 3 kW. Thus the gap between rich and poor nations would be closed, while the total world impact would increase from 13 TW to 30 TW (10 billion x 3 kW).
Will the environment a century hence be able to support 2.3 times as much activity as today? It's questionable, but perhaps with care it could, at least temporarily. Success would require a degree of cooperation, care for our fellow human beings, and respect for the environment that are nowhere evident now. But society has shown it can change rapidly when the time is ripe; let us hope that the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development will help ripen the time.
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* The relationship is summarized in the classic I=PAT identity: Impact is equal to Population size, multiplied by per capita consumption (Affluence), in turn multiplied by a measure of the damage done by the Technologies chosen to supply each unit of consumption.
Mr. Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University in the United States. His most recent books, both co-authored with his wife Anne, are "The Population Explosion" (Simon and Schuster, 1990) and "Healing the Planet" (Addison-Wesley, 1991). The feature originally appeared in Vol. 6, No.3, 1994 of "Our Planet". The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of UNEP.
UNEP Feature 1994/8
SCIENTISTS CHALLENGE BUSINESS PROFESSOR TO BET ON HUMAN FUTURE
STANFORD—Asserting that there is now a "brownlash" in the form of deceptive books and articles downplaying environmental problems, scientists from Stanford's Department of Biological Sciences challenged Julian Simon to bet on significant trends in the human future.
Simon, a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, has repeatedly claimed that all environmental trends are positive and that "doomsaying environmentalists" are wrong. In the San Francisco Chronicle of Friday, May 12, he suggested environmentalists bet that "any trend pertaining to material human welfare" will get worse, since Simon writes they will "all" get better.
The Stanford scientists, ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich and climatologist Stephen H. Schneider actually challenged Simon to bet on 15 current trends whose direction is not positive now, betting $1000 that each will get worse over a ten year stretch into the future. They pledged themselves to be bound by the decision of "a panel of scientists chosen by the President of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005."
Among the negative trends they bet would continue were:
* Rising global temperature.
* Shrinking amount of cropland per person.
* Decline in amount of wheat and rice grown per person.
* Shrinking area of tropical moist forests.
* Decreasing oceanic fish harvest per person.
* Increasing number of people dying of AIDS.
* Declining human sperm count.
* Growing gap between rich and poor.
The Stanford scientists explained that they had chosen "15 trends to avoid the result of a statistical fluke" deciding the bet, as may well have happened in a previous bet on a minor issue marginally related to environmental quality.
They pointed out that the trends in their wager "are more relevant to human welfare than direct ones such as the prices of metals" and that deterioration in those trends "makes society increasingly vulnerable to severe negative impacts."
They concluded "We hope we lose all parts of the bet, and will be doing everything in our power to make that happen.
Sadly, the misinformation you are spreading, Mr. Simon, increases the chances we will win the bet—while humanity loses."
The complete text of the response sent to the Chronicle follows:
IT'S NO TIME TO HEED THE BROWNLASH
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Stephen H. Schneider
There is now a campaign of deceptive books and articles designed to persuade people that all is well on the environmental front. The basic message of this campaign is that some favorable trends show green concerns to be "doomsaying." Our basic message is that indirect trends such as those listed below are more relevant to human welfare than direct ones such as the prices of metals.
Julian Simon has been a leader in this campaign. He is best known for his belief that resources are infinite (he wrote in 1980 that the theoretical limit to the amount of copper that might be available to human beings was "the total weight of the universe"!) and that population can and should grow indefinitely. He's still at it ("Earth's Doomsayers are Wrong," Chronicle, May 12), this time citing a 1986 report prepared by social scientists for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that was subsequently protested by a substantial number of Academy scientists. Somehow he missed the 1994 statement from the NAS and 57 other national academies of science worldwide that contradicted his position.
He also ignored the 1993 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity," signed by some 1700 leading scientists, including over half of all living Nobel Laureates in science, which reads in part: "A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated....A new ethic is required—a new attitude towards discharging our responsibility for caring for ourselves and for the earth. We must recongize the earth's limited capacity to provide for us. We must recognize its fragility....The scientists issuing this warning hope that our message will reach and affect people everywhere. We need the help of many."
It is impossible to say exactly how direct measures of human well-being will be impacted by the general deterioration of Earth's life-support systems. We know, however, that deterioration makes society increasingly vulnerable to severe negative impacts.
One of us (PRE) once made the mistake of being goaded into making a bet with Simon on a matter of marginal environmental importance (prices of metals). Simon says he still wants to make bets. We are thus now challenging Simon to bet on "trends" of much greater significance to long-term human material welfare.
We wager $1000 per trend that each of the following 15 continental and global scale indicators will change in the direction indicated ("get worse") over the next decade:
1. The three years 2002-2004 will on average be warmer than 1992-1994 (rapid climatic change associated with global warming could pose a major threat of increasing droughts and floods).
2. There will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994 (carbon dioxide is the most important gas driving global warming).
3. There will be more nitrous oxide in the atmosphere in 2004 than in 1994 (nitrous oxide is another greenhouse gas that is increasing due to human disruption of the nitrogen cycle).
4. The concentration of tropospheric ozone globally will be greater in 2004 than in 1994 (tropospheric ozone has important deleterious effects on human health and crop production)
5. Emissions of sulfur dioxide in Asia will be signficantly greater in 2004 than in 1994 (sulfur dioxide becomes sulphuric acid in the atmosphere, the principal component of acid rain, and it is associated with direct damage to human health).
6. There will be less fertile cropland per person in 2004 than in 1994 (as the population grows, some of Earth's best farmland is being paved over).
7. There will be less agricultural soil per person in 2004 than in 1994 (about a quarter of the world's topsoil has been lost since World War II, and erosion virtually everywhere far exceeds rates of soil replacement).
8. There will be on average less rice and wheat grown per person in 2002-2004 than in 1992-1994 (rice and wheat are the two most important crops consumed by people).
9. In developing nations there will be less firewood available per person in 2004 than in 1994 (more than a billion people today depend on fuelwood to meet their energy needs).
10. The remaining area of tropical moist forests will be significantly smaller in 2004 than in 1994 (those forests are the repositories of some of humanity's most precious living resources, including the basis for many modern pharmaceuticals worldwide).
11. The oceanic fisheries harvest per person will continue its downward trend and thus in 2004 will be smaller than in 1994 (overfishing, ocean pollution, and coastal wetlands destruction will continue to take their toll).
12. There will be fewer plant and animal species still extant in 2004 than in 1994 (continuing habitat destruction is wiping out organisms that are the working parts of humanity's life-support systems).
13. More people will die of AIDS in 2004 than did in 1994 (as the disease takes off in Asia).
14. Between 1994 and 2004, sperm counts of human males will continue to decline and reproductive disorders to increase (over the last 50 years there has been a roughly 40 percent decline in the count worldwide. We bet this trend will continue due to the widespread use of hormone-disrupting synthetic organic chemical compounds).
15. The gap in wealth between the richest 10 percent of humanity and the poorest 10 percent will be greater in 2004 than in 1994.
We "doomsayers," of course, are not arguing that there are only unfavorable human or environmental trends, rather that too many of the most important are very unfavorable and thus demand prompt attention. Virtually all long-term trends have short-term fluctuations, thus we challenge Simon on 15 trends to avoid the result of a statistical fluke deciding this bet. To determine the direction of the trends, we will accept the decision of a panel of scientists chosen by the President of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Referees will be necessary, since terms like "significantly" (e.g., 5 and 10 above) and estimates of such things as agricultural soils involve questions of judgment. But there is an empirical basis on which competent scientists can make reasonable judgments.
The bet is binding on our heirs, and our winnings will go to non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving environmental quality and human well-being. Since humanity is gambling with its life-support systems, we hope to lose all parts of the bet.
In fact, we will be doing everything in our power to make that happen. Sadly, the complacency and misinformation you are spreading, Mr. Simon, increases the chances we will win the bet—while all of humanity loses. We hope this wager will cause you to reconsider the risks you so blythly suggest the American public undertake by promoting the fantasy of benign indefinite growth.
Paul R. Ehrlich and Stephen H. Schneider are Professors in the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.
A review of:
Julian Simon's THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE
by Herman Daly
This book is an all-out attack on neomalthusian or limits-to-growth thinking and a plea for more population and economic growth, both now and into the indefinite future. It is not a shotgun attack. Rather it is an attack with a single-shot rifle aimed at a single (but critical) premise of the neomalthusian position.
If Simon hits the target, then neomalthusian arguments collapse. If Simon misses the target, then all neomalthusian first principles remain unscathed, and Simon's progrowth arguments collapse. The critical premise that Simon attacks is that of the finitude of resources, including waste absorption capacities. Other premises from which neomalthusians argue include the entropy law and the vulnerability of ecological life-support services.
Simon's theoretical argument against the finitude of resources is that:
"The word "finite" originates in mathematics, in which context we all learn it as schoolchildren. But even in mathematics the word's meaning is far from unambiguous. It can have two principal meanings, sometimes with an apparent contradiction between them. For example, the length of a one-inch line is finite in the sense that it bounded at both ends. But the line within the endpoints contains an infinite number of points; these points cannot be counted, because they have no defined size. Therefore the number of points in that one-inch segment is not finite. Similarly, the quantity of copper that will ever be available to us is not finite, because there is no method (even in principle) of making an appropriate count of it, given the problem of the economic definition of "copper," the possibility of creating copper or its economic equivalent from other materials, and thus the lack of boundaries to the sources from which copper might be drawn."
Two pages later he drives home the main point in connection with oil:
"Our energy supply is non-finite, and oil is an important example . . . the number of oil wells that will eventually produce oil, and in what quantities, is not known or measurable at present and probably never will be, and hence is not meaningfully finite."
The fallacy in the last sentence quoted is evident. If I have seven gallons of oil in seven one gallon cans, then it is countable and finite. If I dump one gallon of oil into each of the seven seas and let it mix for a year, those seven gallons would no longer be countable, and hence not "meaningfully finite, " therefore infinite. This is straightforward nonsense.
The fallacy concerning the copper is obscured by the strange fact that Simon begins with a correct distinction regarding infinity of distance and infinity of divisibility of a finite distance, and then as soon as he moves from one-inch lines to copper with nothing but the word "similarly" to bridge the gap, he forgets the distinction. It would be a wonderful exercise for a class in freshman logic to find the parallel between Simon's argument and Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. Recall that Zeno "proved" that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise that had a finite head start on him. While Achilles traverses the distance from his starting point to that of the tortoise, the tortoise advances a certain distance, and while Achilles advances this distance, the tortoise makes a further advance, and so on, ad infinitum. Thus Achilles will never catch up.
Zeno's paradox confounds an infinity of subdivisions of a distance, which is finite, with an infinity of distance. This is exactly parallel to what Simon has done. He has confused an infinity of possible boundary lines between copper and noncopper with an infinity of amount of copper. We cannot, he says, make an "appropriate count" of copper because the set of all resources can be subdivided in many ways with many possible boundaries for the subset copper because resources are "infinitely" substitutable. Since copper cannot be simply counted like beans in a jar, and since what cannot be counted is not finite, it "follows" that copper is not finite, or copper is infinite.
Simon has argued from the premise of an "infinite" substitutability among different elements within a (finite) set to the conclusion of the infinity of the set itself. But no amount of rearrangement of divisions within a finite set can make the set infinite. His demonstration that mankind will never exhaust its resource base rests on the same logical fallacy as Zeno's demonstration that Achilles will never exhaust the distance between himself and the tortoise. Simon's argument therefore fails even if we grant his premise of infinite substitutability, which gets us rather close to alchemy. Copper is after all an element, and the transmutation of elements is more difficult than the phrase "infinite substitutability" implies! Indeed, Simon never tells us whether "infinite substitutability" means infinite substitutability at declining costs, constant costs, increasing costs, or at infinite costs! Of course Simon could simply assert that the total set of all resources is infinite, but this would be a bald assertion, not a conclusion from an argument based on substitutability, which is what he has attempted.
Simon appeals to the unlimited power of technology to increase the service yielded per unit of resource as further evidence of the essentially nonfinite nature of resources. If resource productivity (ratio of service to resources) were potentially infinite, then we could maintain an ever growing value of services with an ever smaller flow of resources. If Simon truly believes this, then he should join those neomalthusians who advocate limiting the resource flow precisely in order to force technological progress into the direction of improving total resource productivity and away from the recent direction of increasing intensity of resource use. Many neomalthusians advocate this even though they believe the scope for improvement is finite. If one believes the scope for improvement in resource productivity is infinite, then all the more reason to restrict the resource flow.
Those who are loud in their praise of Simon are the same people who would have bet on the tortoise, and are now betting on infinite resources. Simon's ultimate criterion for the validity of an argument seems to be willingness to "put your money where your mouth is." (See his grandstand offer on page 27 to bet anyone any amount, up to a $10,000 total, that the real price of any resource will not rise.) He suggests that the current heavy betting by speculators that the resource tortoise will stay ahead of the Achilles of demographic and economic growth is the best available evidence of the final outcome of the race. But it could in fact be the best available evidence that speculators are interested only in the short run, or that there is a sucker born every minute! In any case "put your money where your mouth is" is a challenge to intensity of belief, not correctness of belief. It is the adman's customary proof by bombastic proclamation.
But what about Simon's empirical evidence against resource finitude? It fares no better than his fallacious attempt at logical refutation. He leans heavily on two expert studies: "The Age of Substitutability" by Weinberg and Goeller (Science, February 20,1976), and Scarcity and Growth by Barnett and Morse.*1 His use of these studies is amazingly selective.
From Weinberg and Goeller he quotes optimistic findings of "infinite" substitutability among resources, assuming a future low-cost, abundant energy source. This buttresses Simon's earlier premise of "infinite" subdivisibility or substitutability among resources. But it does not lend support to his fallacious conclusion that resources are infinite and therefore growth forever is possible. More to the point, however, is that Weinberg and Goeller explicitly rule out any such conclusion by stating in their very first paragraph that their "Age of Substitutability" is a steady state. It assumes zero growth in population and energy use at the highest level that Weinberg and Goeller are willing to say is technically feasible. And they express serious reservations about the social and institutional feasibility of maintaining such a high consumption steady state.
Furthermore, the levels envisioned by Weinberg and Goeller, though cornicopian by general consent, are quite modest by Simon's standards: world population in the Age of Substitutability would be only 2.5 times the present population, and world energy use would be only 12 times present use. This implies a world per-capita energy usage of only 70 percent of current U.S. per capita use. The very study that Simon appeals to for empirical support of his unlimited growth position explicitly rejects the notion of unlimited growth—a fact that Simon fails to mention.
As further empirical evidence we are served a rehash of the Barnett an Morse study. Their finding was that the scarcity of most resources, as measure by per unit extractive costs and by relative prices, was decreasing rather than increasing from 1870 to 1957. Simon gives these arguments as evidence the resources are infinite.
There is no serious dispute about the Barnett and Morse numbers, but the conclusion that resources are becoming ever less scarce is hardly justified. The neomalthusians can reply that of course the prices of resources fall during a epoch of mineralogical bonanza. But the data cannot be decisive between these two views, since they cover only that epoch.
Barnett and Morse are careful to report an important exception to the general finding of falling resource prices: timber, whose price increased during the period. Simon's way of handling this exception is interesting. He first considers only mineral resources and applies the criterion of price as a measure of scarcity, explicitly rejecting all quantity-based indices. He thus shows, decline in scarcity of mineral resources. Later, in the context of food, he considers timber. This is a fair enough context, except that he switches his criterion of scarcity from price to quantity of timber growth. In this way he ca show decreasing timber scarcity by applying quantity measures, while showing decreasing minerals scarcity by applying price measures.
But an equally shifty neomalthusian could use quantity remaining in the ground to prove increasing scarcity of minerals, and relative price to prove increasing scarcity of timber. There is a serious debate about the proper measure of scarcity, as the report by Resources for the Future, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered,*2 demonstrates, but Simon is not engaged in that serious discussion. He grabs whatever number may be moving in the direction that fits the needs of the argument at hand and baptizes it as an index of whatever he is talking about. Two examples will illustrate:
First, Simon claims, after warning us to "grab your hat," that pollution has really been decreasing rather than increasing. To test this hypothesis most investigators would probably look at parts per million of various substances emitted into the air and water by human activities to see if they have been rising or falling over time. Simon, however, takes life expectancy as his index of pollution: increasing life expectancy indicates decreasing pollution. If one suggests that the increase in life expectancy mainly reflects improved control of infectious diseases, Simon redefines "pollutant" to include the smallpox virus and other germs. In this way an increase in emissions of noxious substances from the economy (what everyone but Simon means by "pollution") would not register until after it more than offset the improvement in life expectancy brought about by modern medicine. Thus Simon "measures" pollution by burying it in an aggregate, the other component of which offsets and overwhelms it.
The second example is the claim (we are again told to grab our hats) that the combined increases of income and population do not increase "pressure" on the land. His proof: the absolute amount of land per farm worker has been increasing in the United States and other countries. One might have thought that this was a consequence of mechanization of agriculture and that the increasing investment per acre in machinery, fertilizer, and pesticides represented pressure on the land, not to mention pressure on mines, wells, rivers, lakes, and so on.
Simon's demonstration that resources are infinite is, in my view, a coarse mixture of simple fallacy, omission of contrary evidence from his own expert sources and gross statistical misinterpretation. Since everything else hinges on the now exploded infinite resources proposition, we could well stop here. But there are other considerations less central to the argument of the book that beg for attention.
If, Simon notwithstanding, resources are indeed finite, then the other premises of the neomalthusians remain in vigor. The entropy law tells us not only that coal is finite, but that you can't burn the same lump twice. When burned, available energy is irreversibly depleted and unavailable energy is increased along with the dissipation of materials. If nature's sources and sinks were truly infinite, the fact that the flow between them was entropic would hardly matter. But with finite sources and sinks, the entropy law greatly increases the force of scarcity.
Although the words "entropy" or "second law of thermodynamics" remarkably do not occur once in a 400-page book on The Ultimate Resource, the concept is occasionally touched upon. There is a comment made in passing that marble and copper can be recycled, whereas energy cannot. This raises hopes that Simon may not be ignorant of the entropy law. These hopes are soon dashed when he softens the statement to "energy cannot be easily recycled." Later he tells us that "man's activities tend to increase the order and decrease the homogeneity of nature. Man tends to bring like elements together, to concentrate them."
That is the only part of the picture that Simon knows about. But the entropy law tells us there is another part—that to increase order in one part of the system requires the increase of disorder elsewhere, and that in net terms for the system as a whole the movement is toward disorder. In other words, more order and more matter and energy devoted to human bodies and artifacts mean less matter and energy and less order for the rest of the system, which includes all the other species on whose life-support services we and our economy depend. Simon is quite prepared to ruin the habitats of all other species by letting them (and future generations) bear the entropic costs of disorders that our own continuing growth entails. For Simon, however, this problem cannot exist because he believes resources and absorption capacities are infinite. But after he has once mastered the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise concerning infinity, his next homework assignment should be to find out about entropy. Until he has done these two things he should stop trying to write books for grownups about resources and population.
Part II of the book is on population and is dedicated to the proposition that the ultimate resource is people. The more the better, indefinitely. We are told that: "Even the proposition that population growth must stop sometime may not be very meaningful (see Chapter 3 on 'finitude')." We have already seen Chapter 3 on finitude and have discovered that it is sheer nonsense. I will spare the reader a recitation of all the propositions about population that self-destruct with the demise of Chapter 3.
There is a puzzling methodological inconsistency between Parts I and II. In Part I Simon is the total empiricist, trusting only in the extrapolation of recent trends of falling resource prices. Any a priori argument from first principles about reversal of trends due to increasing cost, diminishing returns, the end of a bonanza, or even the S-shape of the logistic curve characteristic of all empirically observed growth processes simply does not warrant consideration by this hard-headed empiricist. Yet in Part II we find Simon refusing to project population trends and relying on the theory of demographic transition to reverse the recent trend of population growth. His own graphs, used to demonstrate the unreliability of past population predictions, also show that a simple linear trend would have yielded much more accurate predictions in the 1920s than did the then current "twilight of parenthood" theories. Once again, whatever epistemological posture serves the immediate needs of argument is adopted. One is certainly free to choose whatever balance of theory and empiricism one thinks is most effective in getting at the truth, but the balance should not fluctuate so wildly, so often, and so opportunistically.
Simon values human life. More people are better than fewer people because each additional person's life has value for that person, his loved ones, and for society as a whole should he turn out to be a genius: an increase of 4,000 people is more likely to yield another Einstein, Mozart, or Michelangelo than an increase of only 400 people.
While I personally give zero weight to the notion that more births among today's poor and downtrodden masses will increase the probability of another Einstein or Mozart (or Hitler or Caligula?), I do agree that, other things equal, more human lives, and more lives of other species, are better than fewer. And I think that most of my fellow neomalthusians would agree than 10 billion people are better than 2 billion—as long as the 10 billion are not all alive at the same time!
This is the crucial point: neomalthusian policies seek to maximize the cumulative total of lives ever to be lived over time, at a sufficient per-capita standard for a good life. Simon wants to maximize the number of people simultaneously alive—and, impossibly, to maximize per-capita consumption at the same time. These two contradictory strategies are possible only if resources are infinite. If they are finite then maximizing the number of simultaneous lives means a reduction in carrying capacity, fewer people in future time periods, and a lower cumulative total of lives ever lived at a sufficient standard.
The difference is not, as Simon imagines, that he is "pro-life" and the neomalthusians are "anti-life." Rather it is that neomalthusians have a basic understanding of the biophysical world, whereas Simon still has not done his homework on Zeno's paradoxes of infinity, on the entropy law, on the importance of ecological life-support services provided by other species, and on the impossibility of the double maximization implied in his advocacy of "the greatest good for the greatest number."
Simon seems to believe that an avoided birth today implies the eternal nonexistence of a particular self-conscious person who would have enjoyed life. But as far as I know, the pairing of a particular self-consciousness with a particular birth is the greatest of mysteries. Perhaps birth control means that a particular existence is postponed rather than canceled. In other contexts, however, Simon proclaims that "birth control is simply a human right." When Kingsly Davis, Paul Ehrlich, or Garret Hardin advocate birth control they are sacrificing the unborn; but when Simon finds it convenient to his argument to endorse birth control, he is proclaiming a human right.
In this reviewer's opinion, Simon's book cannot stand up to even average critical scrutiny. Lots of bad books are written, and the best thing usually is to ignore them. I would have preferred to ignore this one, too, but judging from the publicity accorded Simon's recent articles, this book is likely to be hailed as a triumph by people who are starved for "optimism." Simon himself tells us that the optimistic conclusions he reached in his population studies helped to bring him out of a "depression of medically unusual duration," and he clearly wants to share the cure. But his cure is at best a sugar pill.
We must abandon the shallow, contrived optimism of growthmania once and for all. The end of growthmania is no cause for despair; it is a hopeful new beginning. To me the optimistic alternative is that of a steady state at a sufficient, sustainable level in which many future generations can rejoice in the loving study and care of God's creation.
Further prolongation of the current compulsive quest for infinite growth, power, and control is what I find depressing. We should learn to be good stewards of what is already under our dominion rather than seek always to enlarge that dominion. We who have done a poor job of managing a small domain should not trust ourselves to take over control of an ever larger "infinite" domain.
NOTE: This review appeared originally in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1982.
NOTES
1. Harold Barnett, and Chandler Morse, Scarcity and Growth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963).
2. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1979).
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The above review is from: [p.p. 282-289] STEADY STATE ECONOMICS, Daly; Island Press, 1991. ISBN 1-55963-071-X
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
DEBT FINANCE, ABORTION & VACCINE INDUSTIES AND MEDICAL MAFIA
DEBT FINANCE, ABORTION-VACCINE INDUSTRIES AND MEDICAL MAFIA
By Eric V. Encina
Swine Flu & Vaccine Industry multi-billion profits in 2009 FOR THE CULTURE OF DEATH:
This is terrible globally. THIS IS AN ADROIT MAN-MADE BY MEDICAL MAFIA TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF FLUE AND VACCINES.
I don't believe WHO - is a bunch of medical mafia, vaccine industry and drug company profiteers and abortionists, eugenicists, euthanasianists, racists, being backed and financed by the powerful financiers hostile to life, family and justice for the innocents.
MONEY, FLU, VACCINES - THAT IS THEIR TARGET:
SWINE FLU IS ADROITLY CREATED BY THE INTERNATIONAL VACCINE INDUSTRY, ABORTION INDUSTRY, AND MEDICAL MAFIA OF MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES FOR THEIR CULTURE OF DEATH. Flu virus is what they are doing to create diseases.
MULTINATIONAL CHEMICAL COMPANIES, ABORTION INDUSTRY, VACCINE MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, DRUG, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING INSTITUTIONS ARE IN COLLUSION to CREATE DISEASES to put the populations in the bondage of diseases that they can make huge profits OF MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
THEIR ECONOMIC THEORY IS THAT , ' IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY, WE MUST CREATE DISEASES FIRST'. People waste their money for medicines that do not cure but exacerbate their health situations.
This is terrible and those who know about it whether they are in the first or third world nations must take action, albeit, seemed to be powerlessly before humanity is wiped off. This is really MEDICAL GENOCIDE.
VACCINE IS GOING TO WORK with its side-effects due to its deadly ingredients including the cellular parts of aborted unborn children COMING FROM ABORTION INDUSTRY.
IMAGINE of $billions of income for the vaccine industry and to pharmaceutical and multinational drug companies if billions of people will go to vaccination and then take drug medicines. THERE IS NO ANY GUARANTEE OF CURE.
THE VACCINE INDUSTRY AND MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES ARE BACKED UP AND FINANCED ENORMOUSLY BY THE FOREIGN, PRIVATE AND INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.
HUMANITY IS CONTROLLED IN All fronts, life, money, food, medicines. This is al the most notorious conspiracy of the global manipulators.
There are so many gigantic things to do for educating people on debt finance, health and alternative solutions for survival, and extremely difficult, not only because there is no supports or no enough supports but also MAJORITY OF PEOPLE are brainwashed or timid or coward, on these issues.
This is a real combat and uphill battle. And so as you see, I continue the fight for life, family and justice in spite of great difficulties.
The Philippine government pressured by the international agencies like WHO (WHO is involved in Medical Mafia), and other private agencies continue to brainwash the Filipino families in the countryside that vaccination is necessary for health to prevent diseases but in reality what is exactly happening is the opposite.
Vaccination is a mandatory medical and health policy in the Philippines forcing the school children to be vaccinated before admitting to public schools. The result is inevitable and calamitous: Millions of children of poor Filipino families are in the bondage of diseases seemed to be without cure such as those degenerative diseases that require expensive treatment based on synthetic medicines and surgery that usually make the health of the children worse off that lead to pitiful death. The vaccine companies create diseases in such as way that they put the population in the bondage of diseases to make profits in collusion with government officials.
In our experiences here, we know everyday, every week, every month and every year those children of poor Filipino families suffering debilitating vaccine side-effects and even deaths without any compensation or any help or assistance from the government.
The Philippine Dept. of Health has been strenuously and massively campaigning vaccination against measles, polio, with millions of poor being vaccinated weekly in the villages and towns/provinces all over the country with the vaccine manufactured by Proctor and Gamble Company sold to Phil. Dept of Health, certainly for profit. AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT ARE THESE VACCINES ARE MADE OF? that can destroy or kill again the children with threatened and deceived parents.
Anti-measles vaccine program is clamorously announced at major media-communications in the country including the consent and permission of religious authorities and churches like Roman Catholic Church.
My own children have been victims of vaccines in the year 2000 and since then I made research reading about vaccines and there I learned that vaccine is not life-health-saving, but actually dreadfully life-health-destroying and killing because of the terribly poisonous ingredients and contents and the major objectives of the vaccine and drug companies to keep the global populations in the bondage of diseases and by making $millions to billions of dollars at the expenses of the innocent children.
Most poor Filipino families and their children under the present anti-life economic system, in the face of tidal waves of terrible, crushing, pressuring, mind-boggling, demoralizing, depressing and life-killing tremendous acute financial-economic crisis with the result of all other dreadful problems for survival like health crisis brought BY THESE MAFIA MEN, ECONOMIC HIT MEN AND MEDICAL MAFIA MEN.
Filipino children of poor families are suffering malnutrition and suffering TB, whooping cough, diptheria, lympathic node cyst/tumor, speech defects, suppressed/depressed immune system function, lack or losing appetites, abnormal behavior, headaches, fatigue, following vaccinations, after vaccinations in the past years.
The Philippine Dept. of Health and those medical authorities constantly deny the side-effects?
When we complain we are just ridiculed, threatened, persecuted and ostracized?
I highly suspect that THE PRESENT SWINE FLU AND THE PROPOSED WHO VACCINE IS A RECONDITE MAJOR EFFORT OF spurious health system of its monstrous cuckoos, health hoaxers, medical rascals and hoodlums mercilessly and forcefully slaughtering and salvaging the multitudes of the poor PEOPLES AND children with life-time side-effects and everlasting throes of pains, moral atrocities and countless damages and indignities and unnamed horrors of death in the planet.
FILIPINO CHILDREN ARE VACCINATED but continue to suffer devastating diseases:
There are more that 23 million children being forcefully vaccinated every year in the Philippines with countless unimaginable lifetime side-effects
Millions of children are vaccinated every year with BcG vaccine as claimed to be against TB but in the Philippines we have around 22 MILLION TB sufferers. The increasing millions of TB cases in the Philippines have strong like to this BcG vaccine.
DEBT FINANCE, ABORTION INDUSTRY OF ENDLESS KILLING OF THE INNOCENT UNBORN CHIDREN, MEDICAL MAFIA’S AIR BORNE, FOOD , WATER POISONING, SPURIOUS VACCINES AND ADROITLY MADE FLU VIRUS TO KILL MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON THE PLANET while those responsible are making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
By Eric V. Encina
Swine Flu & Vaccine Industry multi-billion profits in 2009 FOR THE CULTURE OF DEATH:
This is terrible globally. THIS IS AN ADROIT MAN-MADE BY MEDICAL MAFIA TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF FLUE AND VACCINES.
I don't believe WHO - is a bunch of medical mafia, vaccine industry and drug company profiteers and abortionists, eugenicists, euthanasianists, racists, being backed and financed by the powerful financiers hostile to life, family and justice for the innocents.
MONEY, FLU, VACCINES - THAT IS THEIR TARGET:
SWINE FLU IS ADROITLY CREATED BY THE INTERNATIONAL VACCINE INDUSTRY, ABORTION INDUSTRY, AND MEDICAL MAFIA OF MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES FOR THEIR CULTURE OF DEATH. Flu virus is what they are doing to create diseases.
MULTINATIONAL CHEMICAL COMPANIES, ABORTION INDUSTRY, VACCINE MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, DRUG, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING INSTITUTIONS ARE IN COLLUSION to CREATE DISEASES to put the populations in the bondage of diseases that they can make huge profits OF MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
THEIR ECONOMIC THEORY IS THAT , ' IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY, WE MUST CREATE DISEASES FIRST'. People waste their money for medicines that do not cure but exacerbate their health situations.
This is terrible and those who know about it whether they are in the first or third world nations must take action, albeit, seemed to be powerlessly before humanity is wiped off. This is really MEDICAL GENOCIDE.
VACCINE IS GOING TO WORK with its side-effects due to its deadly ingredients including the cellular parts of aborted unborn children COMING FROM ABORTION INDUSTRY.
IMAGINE of $billions of income for the vaccine industry and to pharmaceutical and multinational drug companies if billions of people will go to vaccination and then take drug medicines. THERE IS NO ANY GUARANTEE OF CURE.
THE VACCINE INDUSTRY AND MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES ARE BACKED UP AND FINANCED ENORMOUSLY BY THE FOREIGN, PRIVATE AND INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.
HUMANITY IS CONTROLLED IN All fronts, life, money, food, medicines. This is al the most notorious conspiracy of the global manipulators.
There are so many gigantic things to do for educating people on debt finance, health and alternative solutions for survival, and extremely difficult, not only because there is no supports or no enough supports but also MAJORITY OF PEOPLE are brainwashed or timid or coward, on these issues.
This is a real combat and uphill battle. And so as you see, I continue the fight for life, family and justice in spite of great difficulties.
The Philippine government pressured by the international agencies like WHO (WHO is involved in Medical Mafia), and other private agencies continue to brainwash the Filipino families in the countryside that vaccination is necessary for health to prevent diseases but in reality what is exactly happening is the opposite.
Vaccination is a mandatory medical and health policy in the Philippines forcing the school children to be vaccinated before admitting to public schools. The result is inevitable and calamitous: Millions of children of poor Filipino families are in the bondage of diseases seemed to be without cure such as those degenerative diseases that require expensive treatment based on synthetic medicines and surgery that usually make the health of the children worse off that lead to pitiful death. The vaccine companies create diseases in such as way that they put the population in the bondage of diseases to make profits in collusion with government officials.
In our experiences here, we know everyday, every week, every month and every year those children of poor Filipino families suffering debilitating vaccine side-effects and even deaths without any compensation or any help or assistance from the government.
The Philippine Dept. of Health has been strenuously and massively campaigning vaccination against measles, polio, with millions of poor being vaccinated weekly in the villages and towns/provinces all over the country with the vaccine manufactured by Proctor and Gamble Company sold to Phil. Dept of Health, certainly for profit. AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT ARE THESE VACCINES ARE MADE OF? that can destroy or kill again the children with threatened and deceived parents.
Anti-measles vaccine program is clamorously announced at major media-communications in the country including the consent and permission of religious authorities and churches like Roman Catholic Church.
My own children have been victims of vaccines in the year 2000 and since then I made research reading about vaccines and there I learned that vaccine is not life-health-saving, but actually dreadfully life-health-destroying and killing because of the terribly poisonous ingredients and contents and the major objectives of the vaccine and drug companies to keep the global populations in the bondage of diseases and by making $millions to billions of dollars at the expenses of the innocent children.
Most poor Filipino families and their children under the present anti-life economic system, in the face of tidal waves of terrible, crushing, pressuring, mind-boggling, demoralizing, depressing and life-killing tremendous acute financial-economic crisis with the result of all other dreadful problems for survival like health crisis brought BY THESE MAFIA MEN, ECONOMIC HIT MEN AND MEDICAL MAFIA MEN.
Filipino children of poor families are suffering malnutrition and suffering TB, whooping cough, diptheria, lympathic node cyst/tumor, speech defects, suppressed/depressed immune system function, lack or losing appetites, abnormal behavior, headaches, fatigue, following vaccinations, after vaccinations in the past years.
The Philippine Dept. of Health and those medical authorities constantly deny the side-effects?
When we complain we are just ridiculed, threatened, persecuted and ostracized?
I highly suspect that THE PRESENT SWINE FLU AND THE PROPOSED WHO VACCINE IS A RECONDITE MAJOR EFFORT OF spurious health system of its monstrous cuckoos, health hoaxers, medical rascals and hoodlums mercilessly and forcefully slaughtering and salvaging the multitudes of the poor PEOPLES AND children with life-time side-effects and everlasting throes of pains, moral atrocities and countless damages and indignities and unnamed horrors of death in the planet.
FILIPINO CHILDREN ARE VACCINATED but continue to suffer devastating diseases:
There are more that 23 million children being forcefully vaccinated every year in the Philippines with countless unimaginable lifetime side-effects
Millions of children are vaccinated every year with BcG vaccine as claimed to be against TB but in the Philippines we have around 22 MILLION TB sufferers. The increasing millions of TB cases in the Philippines have strong like to this BcG vaccine.
DEBT FINANCE, ABORTION INDUSTRY OF ENDLESS KILLING OF THE INNOCENT UNBORN CHIDREN, MEDICAL MAFIA’S AIR BORNE, FOOD , WATER POISONING, SPURIOUS VACCINES AND ADROITLY MADE FLU VIRUS TO KILL MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON THE PLANET while those responsible are making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
WEAPONIZED DESIGNER VIRUSES TO KILL HUMANITY!
WEAPONIZED DESIGNER VIRUSES TO KILL HUMANITY!
By Eric V. Encina
According to experts such as Dr. Sherri Tenpenny at www.drtenpernny. com and Dr. Rebecca Carley at www.drcarley. com and certain Dr. Deagle and other experts on flu virus and biological warfare. The so-called 'swine flu' is really a seasonal H1N1 flu virus that contains genes from the swine flu and the H5N1 avian flu. The experts are saying that it is a weaponized 'designer viruses' created in a laboratory and released into the environment deliberately. The first wave will be very contagious but not too lethal. After it recombines with other viruses that are already 'out there' or with the next weaponized viruses to be released into the environment, it will produce a deadly pandemic.
Mass graves have already been prepared at various locations in the USA by the government. This will be used as an excuse to declare martial Law. a few weeks ago Henry Kissinger stated that by September the American people will be disarmed. U.S. President Obama has already declared a medical emergency, while WORLD BANK IS OFFERING $4 BILLION INTEREST-BEARING LOANS TO MEXICAN GOVERNMENT (so soon MOST THIRD WORLD NATIONS WILL INCUR FURTHER DEBTS) TO SPURIOUSLY ERADICATE SWINE FLU, and thus releasing the safety and preparing to pull the trigger on the martial law mechanisms and one world government.
US Air Force documents dating back to 1996 proposed a scenario calling for a deadly flu pandemic to take place in 2009. Janet Napoletano, Secretary for Homeland Security, has said that this present outbreak will not be deadly but the next one soon to take place will be very deadly to millions to possibly likely billions of people across the planet. What does she already know that we don't know yet????? CAN WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? LET MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS TRICK AND GIMMICK BEFORE IT IS ENTIRELY TOO LATE!
These eugenicists want to depopulate the planet through the deliberate use of viruses, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Depopulation SCHEME is used by means of BIRTH CONTROL METHODS, ABORTION, euthanasia, AND the USE OF VIRUSES, CHEMICALS AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CAN’T BE ACCEPTABLE. If they want, the depopulation must begin and end with them...at the end of a rope!
This is a heinous crime against humanity, against the innocents.
The most nasty and pestiferous act against humanity.
They should all be hung more than the Nazi war criminals were hanged at Nuernberg, Germany.
I welcome comments.
Eric V. Encina
eric_encina@yahoo.com
VACCINE & ABORTION INDUSTRIES AND FINANCIERS)
By Eric V. Encina
“A man’s life begins to end the day he becomes silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King
WHAT IS THE NOBLE THING THAT MATTERS FOR HUMANITY? Human Life? Family Life? Lives of the Innocent Children? Or DEBT VIRUS? OR FABRICATED SWIND FLU VIRUS?
DON’T BE GULLIBLE!!!! False and exaggerated false alarms:
SWINE FLU is another subtle combination of “inside job” of series of dirty medical and monetary tricks and gimmicks as usual, conspiracy, deception, scam, racket and adroit propaganda of Medical Mafia, Virologists, Vaccine& ABORTION Industry Profiteers, Multinational Drug and Pharmaceutical Corporations and GLOBAL HEALTH AGENCIES such as WHO and its surrogates, and their medical practitioners and of course behind the scene: the international bankers!
TAKE A LOOK THE ROLE OF DEBT FINANCE IN SWINE FLU OUTBREAK:
WORLD BANK (WB) is now offering US$4BILLION AT INTEREST LOAN TO MEXICAN GOVERNMENT as claimed to ERADICATE SWINE FLU VIRUS!
NOT ONLY THAT MOST LOANS AT INTEREST HAVE THE CONDITIONS OF POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAMS AND LEGALIZATION OF ABORTION!
THERE ARE CONTAMINATORS AND FINANCIERS FOR THIS SWINE FLU VIRUS.
There is no even a reliable information whether it is a swine flu or not!
This is a another climax of trick that at the end WORLD BANK would also offer loans to other nations for loans at interest in the name of aid to help eradicate THIS FABRICATED AND SPURIOUS/RIDICULOUS SWINE FLU!
These global manipulators are adroitly and reconditely creating health crisis and engaging in medical and monetary tricks to keep LARGE PERCENTAGE OF HUMANITY already in panic, IN THE BONDAGE OF DISEASES and thus to create FURTHER DEBTS FOR FURTHER SLAVERY AND MISERY OF HUMANITY!
DEBT CRISIS AND HEALTH CRISIS are the two major combined weapon or tool for MASS DESTRUCTION.
It is not the SWINE FLU that is in pandemic proportions! IT IS THE DEBT MONEY SYSTEM and its CULTURE OF DEATH, and its progenitors, lackeys and protectors – that has ALREADY REACHED PANDEMIC PROPORTIONS!
THE DEBT VIRUS ALONG WITH THE CULTURE OF DEATH THAT HAS ALREADY PESTIFEROUSLY INFECTED BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE PLANET – now exactly to be candidates for death!
Medical Mafia, ABORTIONISTS, EUNETICISTS, EUTHANASIANISTS, RACISTS and pro-choicers are some of the adroit agents of the International Bankers to control money and populations!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
By Eric V. Encina
According to experts such as Dr. Sherri Tenpenny at www.drtenpernny. com and Dr. Rebecca Carley at www.drcarley. com and certain Dr. Deagle and other experts on flu virus and biological warfare. The so-called 'swine flu' is really a seasonal H1N1 flu virus that contains genes from the swine flu and the H5N1 avian flu. The experts are saying that it is a weaponized 'designer viruses' created in a laboratory and released into the environment deliberately. The first wave will be very contagious but not too lethal. After it recombines with other viruses that are already 'out there' or with the next weaponized viruses to be released into the environment, it will produce a deadly pandemic.
Mass graves have already been prepared at various locations in the USA by the government. This will be used as an excuse to declare martial Law. a few weeks ago Henry Kissinger stated that by September the American people will be disarmed. U.S. President Obama has already declared a medical emergency, while WORLD BANK IS OFFERING $4 BILLION INTEREST-BEARING LOANS TO MEXICAN GOVERNMENT (so soon MOST THIRD WORLD NATIONS WILL INCUR FURTHER DEBTS) TO SPURIOUSLY ERADICATE SWINE FLU, and thus releasing the safety and preparing to pull the trigger on the martial law mechanisms and one world government.
US Air Force documents dating back to 1996 proposed a scenario calling for a deadly flu pandemic to take place in 2009. Janet Napoletano, Secretary for Homeland Security, has said that this present outbreak will not be deadly but the next one soon to take place will be very deadly to millions to possibly likely billions of people across the planet. What does she already know that we don't know yet????? CAN WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? LET MILLIONS TO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS TRICK AND GIMMICK BEFORE IT IS ENTIRELY TOO LATE!
These eugenicists want to depopulate the planet through the deliberate use of viruses, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Depopulation SCHEME is used by means of BIRTH CONTROL METHODS, ABORTION, euthanasia, AND the USE OF VIRUSES, CHEMICALS AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CAN’T BE ACCEPTABLE. If they want, the depopulation must begin and end with them...at the end of a rope!
This is a heinous crime against humanity, against the innocents.
The most nasty and pestiferous act against humanity.
They should all be hung more than the Nazi war criminals were hanged at Nuernberg, Germany.
I welcome comments.
Eric V. Encina
eric_encina@yahoo.com
VACCINE & ABORTION INDUSTRIES AND FINANCIERS)
By Eric V. Encina
“A man’s life begins to end the day he becomes silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King
WHAT IS THE NOBLE THING THAT MATTERS FOR HUMANITY? Human Life? Family Life? Lives of the Innocent Children? Or DEBT VIRUS? OR FABRICATED SWIND FLU VIRUS?
DON’T BE GULLIBLE!!!! False and exaggerated false alarms:
SWINE FLU is another subtle combination of “inside job” of series of dirty medical and monetary tricks and gimmicks as usual, conspiracy, deception, scam, racket and adroit propaganda of Medical Mafia, Virologists, Vaccine& ABORTION Industry Profiteers, Multinational Drug and Pharmaceutical Corporations and GLOBAL HEALTH AGENCIES such as WHO and its surrogates, and their medical practitioners and of course behind the scene: the international bankers!
TAKE A LOOK THE ROLE OF DEBT FINANCE IN SWINE FLU OUTBREAK:
WORLD BANK (WB) is now offering US$4BILLION AT INTEREST LOAN TO MEXICAN GOVERNMENT as claimed to ERADICATE SWINE FLU VIRUS!
NOT ONLY THAT MOST LOANS AT INTEREST HAVE THE CONDITIONS OF POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAMS AND LEGALIZATION OF ABORTION!
THERE ARE CONTAMINATORS AND FINANCIERS FOR THIS SWINE FLU VIRUS.
There is no even a reliable information whether it is a swine flu or not!
This is a another climax of trick that at the end WORLD BANK would also offer loans to other nations for loans at interest in the name of aid to help eradicate THIS FABRICATED AND SPURIOUS/RIDICULOUS SWINE FLU!
These global manipulators are adroitly and reconditely creating health crisis and engaging in medical and monetary tricks to keep LARGE PERCENTAGE OF HUMANITY already in panic, IN THE BONDAGE OF DISEASES and thus to create FURTHER DEBTS FOR FURTHER SLAVERY AND MISERY OF HUMANITY!
DEBT CRISIS AND HEALTH CRISIS are the two major combined weapon or tool for MASS DESTRUCTION.
It is not the SWINE FLU that is in pandemic proportions! IT IS THE DEBT MONEY SYSTEM and its CULTURE OF DEATH, and its progenitors, lackeys and protectors – that has ALREADY REACHED PANDEMIC PROPORTIONS!
THE DEBT VIRUS ALONG WITH THE CULTURE OF DEATH THAT HAS ALREADY PESTIFEROUSLY INFECTED BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE PLANET – now exactly to be candidates for death!
Medical Mafia, ABORTIONISTS, EUNETICISTS, EUTHANASIANISTS, RACISTS and pro-choicers are some of the adroit agents of the International Bankers to control money and populations!
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression TO CONTROL MONEY AND PEOPLE
The website and its contents below is shocking. All these things happen because THEY ARE ALL PLOTTED from A to Z to control money and destroy human life.
http://www.infowars.com/leaked-agenda-bilderberg-group-plans-economic-depression/
WHY IS IT ALLOWED OR PERMITTED TO HAPPEN?
These global manipulators, mafia men, economic hitmen, ultimately corrupt men, traitors,, QUISLINGS and agents of destruction and of Armageddon, plotters of crimes, violence, revolutions and wars and murderers of the INNOCENTS AND THE POOR, who are insatiably greedy and avaricious of enormous profits, and destroyers of humanity, controllers of money, wealth and food and encroachers of economic democracy and security for all humanity all deserve to be hung in hell forever!
The QUISLINGS are those economic and financial hit men, ABORTION INDUSTRY CAMPAIGNERS AND SUPPORTERS, vultures, speculators, usurers, government officials and leaders who are in collaboration or in collusion with the IMF-WB with their global conspirators and manipulators TO CONTROL MONEY AND POPULATIONS, to perpetuate economic slavery to keep the populations in the bondage of debt, interest and poverty in many nations.
WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? Who are the citizens in the world in collusion with? Those who are silent are ipso facto IN COLLUSION and involved in conspiracy!
Our lives are crushed, shattered, squeezed, skinned alive, tormented and persecuted THROUGH THE USE OF THE CONTROL OF MONEY and POPULATIONS by all forms of killing the innocents and the aged.
For life and justice for the innocents,
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
http://www.infowars.com/leaked-agenda-bilderberg-group-plans-economic-depression/
WHY IS IT ALLOWED OR PERMITTED TO HAPPEN?
These global manipulators, mafia men, economic hitmen, ultimately corrupt men, traitors,, QUISLINGS and agents of destruction and of Armageddon, plotters of crimes, violence, revolutions and wars and murderers of the INNOCENTS AND THE POOR, who are insatiably greedy and avaricious of enormous profits, and destroyers of humanity, controllers of money, wealth and food and encroachers of economic democracy and security for all humanity all deserve to be hung in hell forever!
The QUISLINGS are those economic and financial hit men, ABORTION INDUSTRY CAMPAIGNERS AND SUPPORTERS, vultures, speculators, usurers, government officials and leaders who are in collaboration or in collusion with the IMF-WB with their global conspirators and manipulators TO CONTROL MONEY AND POPULATIONS, to perpetuate economic slavery to keep the populations in the bondage of debt, interest and poverty in many nations.
WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN? Who are the citizens in the world in collusion with? Those who are silent are ipso facto IN COLLUSION and involved in conspiracy!
Our lives are crushed, shattered, squeezed, skinned alive, tormented and persecuted THROUGH THE USE OF THE CONTROL OF MONEY and POPULATIONS by all forms of killing the innocents and the aged.
For life and justice for the innocents,
Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
rc_encina@yahoo.com
reynalda_life@yahoo.com my wife’s email
New Email: eric.encina8@gmail.com
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