The Population Bomb (1968) predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death"

"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."

— Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '96

"The world has a cancer, and that cancer is man."

— Merton Lambert - former spokesman for the Rockefeller Foundation - Harpeth Journal, December 18, '62

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

— Prince Phillip - Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund - quoted in 'Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?', Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95

The "Population Bomb" (1968) was a best-selling book which predicted that "in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death", that by 1980 life expectancy would be only 42 years (in the United States ! ).

It was written by Entomologist Paul R. Ehrlich who like Malthus - a right-wing aristocrat critized by Karl Marx - pretended that nothing could be done to avoid a mass famine greater than any in the history and proposed radical solutions including starving whole countries that refused to implement population control measures. This is just Orwell's Newspeak: to avoid famine one should starve the people. Then one doesn't need to ask like Time Magazine why Third World Countries were starving if they were already starved under the guise of population control.

There were also less dramatic economic measures but which impacted children care because he preconised that "luxury taxes could be placed on layettes, cribs, diapers, diaper services, [and] expensive toys...". Other excerpts follow below:

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..."

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"a minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century"

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"Our position requires that we take immediate action at home and promote effective action worldwide. We must have population control at home, hopefully through changes in our value system, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail."

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"The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size."