Oct. 7, 2021 (EIRNS)—Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is activated, along with the full WEF network of billionaires, royals, and mega-cartels, to push their “Metrics” of allowable economic activity, for stakeholders in every aspect of life (business, government, fraternal, religious etc.) to police fellow citizens to stop doing anything that contributes to development for people. Why? Because, Schwab declares, it is a “conundrum” that human development itself hurts the planet. So, stop it. On Jan. 18, 2021, Schwab released his book on this at the WEF Davos Forum, titled, Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet. On page 154, he spelled out his point. To add stress, he first recounted economic infrastructure development details from Ethiopia, its railroads, agriculture gains, the Grand Renaissance Dam, even renewable energy, and then he insisted that it has to stop. The kind of development being undertaken in Ethiopia “reveals the central conundrum of the combat against climate change. The same force that helps people escape from poverty and lead a decent life is the one that is destroying the livability of our planet for future generations. The emissions that lead to climate change are not just the result of a selfish generation of industrialists or western baby boomers. They are the consequence of the desire to create a better future for oneself.” So, metrics are being worked out by Schwab, the WEF, and the entire green-tyranny apparatus, on what you and your enterprise are allowed or not allowed to do—factory, railroad, farm, civic, religious, or household. The regulations are drawn up in terms of environment, sustainability, and governance (ESG). They are assembled in different taxonomies intended for each nation and locale. Schwab reported on the process on pages 210-215: “ ‘World Economic Forum’s International Business Council,’ led by Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, late last year presented the ‘Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics.’ They measure companies’ progress toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in numbers and thereby allow them to optimize for more than just profits.” (See also, World Economic Forum White Paper, “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation,” September 2020) Schwab continues: “During the consultation process on the metrics, more than two-thirds of the 140 International Business Council members—including many of the largest companies in the world—supported them too. And all major accounting firms, the so-called Big Four (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC) even helped develop the metrics. They are committed to helping the metrics become a global standard. In this way, the Stakeholder Capitalism metrics are a major step in turning the idea of stakeholder capitalism into a practical reality. “A widespread adoption of these Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics is realistic and could happen as soon as 2022.” Mega-companies conferring on these ESG Standard Metrics include the Big Techs, and the Big Four—Bank of America, Blackrock, DSM, Philips, and others. Schwab wrote a glowing account of how Big Tech and others have a privileged role in enforcing ESG. “Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and an early outsider investor in Facebook said in the Wall Street Journal 2014: ‘A monopoly like Google is different. Since it doesn’t have to worry about competing with anyone, it has wider latitude to care about its workers, its products and its impact on the wider world. Google’s motto—“Don’t be evil”—is in part a branding ploy, but it is also characteristic of a kind of business that is successful enough to take ethics seriously without jeopardizing its own existence.’ ” Germany is a test case for an all-encompassing ESG metrics taxonomy. In June, a Malthusian Supply Chain Law was enacted, in which the ESG metrics are to apply. An all-Europe ESG Metrics law is being worked on. The EIR Daily Alert issue for Jan. 21, 2021, reported on Klaus Schwab’s Jan. 18 press conference to announce his book, and the WEF activities for the coming 2021 year of events. We revealed: “The WEF briefing said they will hold dozens of events, leading up to their in-person Singapore annual WEF meeting in May, followed by the G7, then the G20, the September UN 2021 Food Systems Summit, the Biodiversity COP15 event, and the November COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Schwab pledged ‘a mobilization’ to ‘rebuilding’ and ‘re-setting’ our world.”
July 30—One of the planning documents for COP26 was just released and provides a useful reminder of the malevolent origins of the Environmentalist movement. "Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for Unesco to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable. " -Julian Huxley 1946 "UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy" July 30 (EIRNS)—The same “scientists” who initiated a so-called “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency” statement in 2019, issued a third edition two days ago, warning that the “tipping point” is now even nigh-er than before. Why? Topping the list of “profoundly troubling signs from human activities” is “sustained increases in both human and ruminant livestock populations;” and while the first item in their list of “encouraging signs” is “decreases in global fertility (birth) rates,” they warn that “the decline in human fertility rates has substantially slowed during the last 20 years.” Because “economic and population growth are among the most important drivers of increases in CO₂ emissions,” the now nearly 14,000 “World Scientists” who signed (they claim) this “Warning,” call for six drastic measures, the sixth being “stabilizing and gradually reducing” the human population. Only in a “socially just” way, of course. This fraudulent operation has been led by two fanatics from the Forestry Department of Oregon State University, Professor William Ripple and his research associate, Christopher Wolf. These two, joined by an alleged expert in the animal mind from Virginia Tech, Eileen Crist, have set out to make population reduction a politically acceptable topic of discussion. The three authored a paper published in April 2021 in Sustainability Science titled “Human Population, Social Justice, and Climate Policy,” which “illustrate[s] how human population has been mostly ignored with regard to climate policy,” and argues how “population policies could make substantial contributions to climate mitigation and adaptation.” Forced sterilization programs and China’s one-child policy gave population reduction a bad name, Ripple complained to the Oregon State University newsroom, in discussing that article. “Clearly social justice and population policy are not getting the attention they deserve in the struggle against the climate emergency.” But, “there are strong links between high rates of population growth and ecosystem impacts in developing countries connected to water and food security,” he went on. “Given the challenges of food and water security … taking steps to stabilize and then gradually reduce total human numbers” is required. https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/socially-just-population-policies-can-mitigate-climate-change-while-advancing-global-equity [ggs]
You may have missed it, but back on July 23 the British hosts of the upcoming Glasgow COP26 UN climate change conference announced excitedly that there were only 100 days left to the beginning of their Nov. 1-12 green atrocity, which is intended to usher in the Age of Depopulation based on enforced deadly cutbacks in energy and industrial production, justified by a supposed “science of climate change.” This is the Schachtian nightmare that Lyndon LaRouche warned 50 years ago would become Mankind’s fate, if we failed to alter the deadly policy course adopted on August 15, 1971. That policy course has not been altered—yet.To flatten the Earth on the way to Glasgow, which will meet under the slogan “Uniting the World To Tackle Climate Change,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the next report of its Working Group I on Aug. 9, following an approval session now underway from July 26 to August 6. “Working Group I assesses the physical science basis of climate change,” the IPCC lies pompously. “The report will provide the latest assessment of scientific knowledge about the warming of the planet and projections for future warming, and assess its impacts on the climate system.” What “latest science” is that? Perhaps the stated view of “11,000 scientists” who released a letter today arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic is all fine and good, but far more drastic cuts in human activity as a whole are needed, including “stabilized and then declining population.” So the clock is indeed ticking, as the COP26 organizers announced. Helga Zepp-LaRouche today threw down the gauntlet against the green depopulation agenda. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are already riding, she stated, but we will rally the forces of science and human dignity to stop them, in an international anti-Malthusian alliance which presents an alternative to this madness of depopulation and warfare among the super-powers. An important step in that direction was taken at last Saturday’s July 24 Schiller Institute conference on the lie of climate change. Zepp-LaRouche added that we are seeing some small cracks in London’s geopolitical warfare strategy, such as the July 28 U.S.-Russian meeting in Geneva, but derogatory anti-Russian statements such as those issued once again by President Biden poison the environment to any serious progress. We remain on a short fuse to World War III because of the breakdown crisis of the entire trans-Atlantic financial system, she stated, but there is an opening around the Afghanistan situation for cooperation among the U.S., Russia, China and others, an opening which must be acted on immediately while it is still there. Historic windows of opportunity such as this one, Zepp-LaRouche explained, or like the one in 1989 with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, close quickly if the moment is missed. It is with that reality in mind that we turn to the twofold task of organizing this weekend’s July 31 Schiller Institute conference on Afghanistan, and building the international alliance of forces to make sure the Age of Depopulation never occurs.
Two of the 11 speakers on this panel are prominent European leaders of initiatives to discredit the core lies and models of the assertion that human activity is causing CO₂ emissions, which is causing destructive climate change. They are Franco Battaglia, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Modena, who in 2019, was co-sponsor of a petition declaration, signed by many hundreds of scientists, that “There Is No Climate Emergency.” Likewise, Professor Guus Berkhout, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, who is President of CLINTEL (Climate Intelligence, a foundation). Berkhout is also a member of the Dutch Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. His title was, “Stop Blaming Climate Change for Your Failures.”Battalgia, using graphics, tore apart the global warming climate models, showing how they could not at all predict any past phenomena and trends of record. Meteorologist from Kansas, Mike Thompson, a state senator, used many illustrations to show the solar dynamics in climate change, as differentiated from weather pattern shifts. He denounced the false CO₂ emissions propaganda as “weaponized science.” Berkhout gave an illustrated history on flooding in The Netherlands, his homeland, which suffered great damage this month. In the Maas Basin, flooding was worst where in the feeder streams and tributaries, the pumping stations, canals, and inland dikes have not been maintained. There have been worse floods in the past, and also examples of famous Dutch hydraulic defenses, such as the Delta Delta Works. Berkhout ridiculed EU Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, “who blames all misery on climate change.” A dramatic report on flooding in Germany was provided by Christian Lohmeyer, a farm leader in Lower Saxony, who is on the Board of Landvolk Mittelweser. On July 15, Lohmeyer made a three minute self-video, after hearing from a fellow farm leader in the Ahrweiler district, near Bonn, on the gross inaction by authorities there, who then blamed “climate change” for their own negligence. Lohmeyer denounced the officials and greens, who blame farmers for hurting the environment by growing food, then turn around and do nothing while 100 people die. “It’s not climate change.” He said that 50 farmers came out on their own at 3 a.m. in Ahrweiler with their tractors and equipment to save lives and protect what they could, and nothing at all was done by the authorities! There was not even a contact person. Nothing. Paul Driessen, a well-known science analyst based in the U.S., author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, gave a review of the track record of green lying in many areas, such as falsifying the number and intensity of hurricanes. He reviewed past blizzards, twisters, and hurricanes, blasting the “con artists” who blame climate change, not lack of defense from bad weather. He ended with a warning about the consequences of making the green electricity shift to “intermittent, unreliable wind and solar.” He said, “If you do, you deserve what you get.” A presentation on “How Future Electricity Security Is Threatened by Wind and Solar Technology and Blackouts,” was given by German specialist, Alwin Burgholte, Professor Emeritus, GADE-Hochschule Wilhelmshaven. He reviewed past outages and causes, e.g. the 2003 blackout in New York, and the near European crash in January 2021, stressing the obvious essentials for stability. Even a minor outage can require weeks of work to reconstruct the grid. The U.S. electricity overview agency NERC (North American Electricity Reliability Corporation) has issued a map of areas of the country where the likelihood of blackouts is very high from June through September 2021, because power generation baseload has become insufficient. Kansas Sen. Mike Thompson reported that his state has 3,100 wind turbines, and plans to add another 1,000. In Kansas, 43% of the electricity comes from wind and solar, which is the second highest in the nation after Iowa, with 49%. The potential disruption to farming and food is enormous, given that Kansas and Iowa each rank first or second nationally in wheat, corn, hogs, eggs and soybeans. Together they are second to Texas in cattle. Minnesota farm leader Andy Olson reported on how “fragile” the electricity systems are throughout the Farmbelt states. He debunked the idea that gas-fueled peaker plants can be counted on as backup when the wind turbines are down. Seven coal-fired plants in Minnesota have been converted to gas, but the logistics and huge expense of getting and using the gas doesn’t work. Angel Cushing, farm leader and activist from eastern Kansas, reported on the green assault against agriculture land use. It comes in the form of zoning, easements, Federal, and green elite maneuvers, done in the name of preserving nature, with fancy code names such as, “viewscape.” There is a “heritage area” campaign. This is all part of the “30×30” assault, to remove 30% of U.S. land and water out of any economic use by 2030, which is in Biden’s Executive Order 14008. This week, the federal Bureau of Land Management held a virtual public comment session on a plan in the works for an “American Prairie Reserve,” centered in Montana, that is to be over 3 million acres, larger than the nation of Lebanon. There are to be only bison, no more traditional livestock grazing.
Join us on Saturday at 2pm EDT. Lyndon LaRouche took the occasion of the wicked Club of Rome's 1972 release of the absurd book "The Limits to Growth" to use that unseemly tract as a foil for developing his own, far superior ideas of economics and science, in his book "There Are No Limits to Growth". Where Malthusians — intent on preventing the growth, scientific or population-wise of what they consider the human herd — see population growth as creating mouths to feed, LaRouche recognized that each mouth came with a mind, capable of discovering new principles of science and technology that would actually "increase" the raw material reserves of the world.The "modern" analog of the Limits to Growth's cringe-worthy computer charts foretelling doom if technological and population growth were not promptly reversed, is seen in the noxious and deadly global warming projections emitted by the IPCC. The authors of "The Limits to Growth" were forced to deny the existence of the human mind in making their dreary forecasts, and the IPCC adopts the conceit that their (rigged) purely terrestrial models (which ignore solar system and galactic effects) present us a reliable picture of a shattered hellscape loosed upon the world by the ravages of untamed fossil fuel use. If the world is truly coming to an end, it would not be the result of burning coal. It would come from the nuclear war that will surely result from the maniacal drive for conflict with Russia and China — if we don't stop it. Join us on Saturday to get the truth about exaggerated climate models, the danger of war, and the potentially unlimited power of the human mind.