@graem-frede wrote:
โDepopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the Third World.โ โThe United States economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries,โ Mr. Kissinger added. โWar and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the worldโs population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. โWeโve got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. โYou know, the bird fluโs good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nineโ. ---Dr. Eric Pianka
Letโs get a sense of perspective on this.
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346โ53
The human race survived it.
The Great Plague of London in 1665 was the last in a long series of plague epidemics that first began in London in June 1499. The Great Plague killed between 75,000 and 100,000 of Londonโs rapidly expanding population of about 460,000.
London, England and the Human race survived it
In 1895 a typhoid epidemic struck Perth. Western Australia.
1895 โ 566 cases
1896 โ 663
1897 โ 1408
1898 โ 800
The population of Western Australia at the time was around 53,000.
Western Australia survived it.
We had a polio epidemic here in the 1940s and in the 1980s the Grim Reaper (AIDS) was coming to get us.
We survived them both.
More people โ children particular- probably died from diphtheria than are ever likely to die from Ebola.
Yes, Ebola is a very nasty disease, and yes, we need to be vigilant, but outbreaks of disease have always and will always be with us and to attribute them to either Government policies or the wrath of God is hysterical nonsense.
