How Public Opinion Changes / Huffing and Puffing at Kyoto, Forecast – Cloudy

By Austin Ruse

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) Herodotus, the 5th Century (B.C.) Greek historian told the story of a people marching out with spears and swords to do battle with the wind. CFHRI's correspondent at the Kyoto Climate Conference tells us that something very like that is going on at the conference in Japan this week.  
           
     There are the usual and relentless doom-sayers who are bombarding delegates with visions of floods, droughts, plagues and pestilence. One panic-monger even warned that global warming may trigger an Ice Age in Europe. So, they are now gathered in Kyoto to do battle with the temperature. 
           
     The earth's atmosphere may not be heating up, but our correspondent reports the temperature and the tempers of certain UN officials are rising rapidly. On Monday, Michael Zammit Cutajar, executive secretary of the UN Climate Control Secretariat lashed out at greenhouse sceptics "from certain industrial sectors that are on the defensive." He said their questioning of the validity of greenhouse science was merely  "propaganda that unashamedly plays games with the science and statistics of climate change."                                     
           
     Will the inevitable Convention include population control? On Thursday our correspondent asked the chief spokesman for the Group of 77 (the UN alliance of developing countries) if population would be included in the Convention and received a firm "no." Nonetheless, China, now considered part of G-77, says they intend to use population control to keep their emissions down.

 

Huffing and Puffing at Kyoto, Forecast – Cloudy

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) First in the chain are the experts. Only a few weeks ago it was reported in these pages that a Expert Group Meeting was taking place at UN Headquarters on the phenomenon of below replacement fertility. Demographers from around the world met privately to sound the alarm that society can not long withstand couples having less than 2.1 children. 
           
     Many of us know by natural reason that society must be shaped like a diamond, that is with lots of young workers on the bottom supporting an ever shrinking group of the elderly on top. Reason also tells us that families with lots of brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles are also the most healthy. Family is good. 
           
     It took a while, but now even the experts, using hard data, see this wonderful reasoning. Next in the chain come the pundits.Within three weeks of the Expert Group Meetings in New York, Ben Wattenberg, an old Washington hand, in residence at the American Enterprise Institute, published a long story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine called The Population Explosion is Over. Patrick Buchanan chimed in with a syndicated column entitled Low birth-rates: Suicide of the West, and Maggie Gallagher wrote her syndicated column on the same topic, Graying civilization; Where are all the kids?  
           
     The next link in the chain is the citizen. Even though the intellectual tide seems to be turning, policy makers in national capitals around the world and at the UN still march confidently toward a depopulated future, especially in the developing world.   
           
     Call CFHRI to get copies of these articles. Consider sending them to your local paper, to your elected representatives. This completes the chain, and is how public opinion changes. 
           
     The question then becomes, how long before this great demographic damage is reversed?

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