Actually, this sort of projection is nothing new.  It has been put forward many times over the last thirty years, and is being implemented to some degree in many fundamental ways.  In fact, from the standpoint of a linear time/space geometry of thinking, this type of conclusion is the only conclusion one can draw.  In this mode of thinking, humanity looks at itself and sees a planet of finite resources of a certain type which are being used up.  Thus, the elite population planners of this world see no light at the end of the tunnel, except through "tough decisions."  Indeed, the only option that a linear perspective allows, is a focusing on conservation measures combined with the broadest possible means of human devolution to reverse human progress and human existence.  In fact a whole Conservative Revolution has been launched on that theme, based squarely on the idea of cutting back, of scaling down, of setting up nature reserves while trimming the world population as fast as possible, with the aim of getting back to the population levels that were found hundreds of years ago.  A global project is being urged with precisely such reductions to be achieved within a time frame of roughly two generations.  But would such an immense scheme work?

Let us try to find an answer by looking at the so-called Sri Lanka imperative in the larger scale of the world as a whole.  Let us look beyond Sri Lanka, or Africa, or India, and take the devolution proposal to its logical conclusion.  Since the apparent answer is that the population of Sri Lanka must be trimmed back to its earlier population level, one must assume that the same necessity also applies to the world as a whole as the same patterns that have been observed in Sri Lanka have been observed universally throughout the world.  This means that a sixty-six percent reduction in the world's population is to be pursued in order to deal with the perceived problem of overpopulation.  This figure is in fact a rather conservative one as much more drastic reductions have been proposed.  However, let's stay with the less drastic proposal, the sixty-six percent reduction figure.  What does this imply in real terms?

A sixty-six percent reduction would bring the world population down to about 1.8 billion people.  This figure is half way between the .5 and 2.5 billion mark that is being advocated as a reasonable world population, to be achieved in two generations.  This means, in real terms, that the 3.8 billion people that are currently considered surplus, are to be eliminated from the human scene in some fashion, in order that the rest of the people and the planet's natural systems can exist in utopia (a largely empty world).

Now, let us look at the human dimension of the proposal.  Since the proposed population reduction, with all future births factored into the equation, is to be achieved in two generation, or approximately forty to forty-five years, it is impossible to image what the human dimension will be in this horrendous scene of the destruction of human beings.  Nothing of this sort has ever been executed in all the history of man.  Hitler murdered 6 million in his death camps in six years, and the conscience of humanity still suffers pains from this relatively minor destruction of human beings.  Now the elimination of 3,800 million in 45 years is advocated, plus the population increases over this time through new births.  This represents a 120 fold increase in the rate of murdering, sustained for 45 years.  The result of this madness is unimaginable.   Someone who visited one of the Nazie death camps many years after the war, wrote about the overpowering agony that one still feels there, even after all this time.  The feeling was described as an unspeakable silence, as after a great cry.  Some say that no words of language, no matter how skillfully used, can ever describe the reality of the human dimension that these words but hint at.  How much less can anyone describe an orchestrated elimination of not just six million people, but three-thousand-eight-hundred million people, plus an equivalent number of all those countless millions who are born in this forty year time-span.

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