One of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve ever had was with a certain political figure, a heavyweight in the left wing of the Australian Labor Party. This fellow was holding forth on the alleged ecological calamities engulfing Mother Gaia and, as eco-tastrophists will, opined that the only way to save the planet was by mostly ridding it of humans.
We must reduce the population to two billion in the next 50 years. No ifs, no buts. Anything less was a certain recipe for planetary death.
I did some back-of-the-envelope maths and showed him the results. Even if we completely ceased all births right away, at the natural rate of death, we would still not meet his target. In fact, we would have to actively murder some 80 million human beings, every year for the next 50 years.
That is: a Stalin and Mao, combined, every year for the next half-century.
Far from shaking his conviction, he blithely agreed.
Let that sink in: a leading figure of the green-left was perfectly comfortable with the idea of a genocide on a scale never before attempted in human history. If you’re wondering where self-declared Eco-Fascist Brenton Tarrant derived his murderous motivation, look no further. These are not, in fact, isolated views on the green-left.
As The Guardian itself recently put it: “Genghis Khan was good for the planet”. That’s right: the mass-murderer who exterminated some 40 million people, and famously left piles of their skulls dotted across Europe and Asia to prove it, is a hero of the green-left.
We are living in 2021 and the environmental movement is littered with anti-human organisations that worship human extinction as the endgame for planetary health. You know the type – kids pouring buckets of fake blood into storm-water drains, Instagramming the abomination of capitalism on iPhones before their parents come to pick them up a few hours later in shiny Range Rovers.
The Guardian article (which had actually been resurrected from 2011) goes on to brag that the Mongol warrior murder binge scrubbed seven-hundred million tonnes of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere – although it doesn’t clarify if this figure includes the smoke emitted from the burning of forty million human bodies and their ravaged cities.
The only thing you need to take away from this conversation is that eradicating humans is so green.
Lest you should think that this is just some whackadoodle Guardian luvvie, be assured: it’s science. In a 2011 paper:
Lead author Julia Pongratz from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology argues that humans began impacting the Earth’s climate by changing the cover of vegetation with the rise of agriculture. The follow up is straight forward. When humans were slaughtered by Khan, nature was free to reclaim the terrain producing a measurable win for those consumed by Carbon fear porn[…]
Pongratz’s ‘Mongol slaughtering is good for the planet’ article was written for The Department of Global Ecology, established in 2002 to ‘help build the scientific foundations for a sustainable future’ and is funded by the Carnegie Institution. More interestingly, Julie Pongratz is also listed in the Department of Geography for the Global Carbon Project[…]
According to their website, the Global Carbon Project is ‘a Global Research Project of Future Earth and research partner of the World Climate Research Programme’.
Spectator Australia
It would be easy to dismiss this as just so much academic onanism, were it not that academic lunacy has a habit of escaping the ivory tower and killing lots of people. From the Volksiche movement to Lysenkoism, today’s academic theory is tomorrow’s Final Solution.
Consider the almost immediate reaction to COVID-19: the media was flooded with gushing stories about how wonderful it is for the planet now that all us filthy humans are under house arrest.
As the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto learned in the worst possible way, it’s just one small cattle-car ride from the ghetto to gas chamber.
Brenton Tarrant begins to look less like a violent, abominable aberration than a role-model for Extinction Rebellion. Although he pales into insignificance next to their real heroes, the mass-murdering Khans and Chairmen.
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