THE LEFT & RIGHT: SHARING A COMMON CONSPIRACY THEORY

I recently received an email from a reader of our web site. His plea was simple. Reuben said:

WAKE UP! IT'S CALLED "TOO MANY PEOPLE"! IT'S OVERPOPULATION! Why does the entire country suffer from this mass blindness? People 30 years ago could see that overpopulation is driving all the other problems.

It's interesting he should pick the number "30". Thirty years ago, almost to the day, the Club of Rome identified the principal problem facing this planet as "Unsustainable Growth". Thirty years ago the twin solutions of "Sustainable Growth" and "Sustainable Development" were identified as the only solutions ACCEPTABLE to the 'elite' few who control world politics and who determine global international policies. And so for the past 30 years these twin solutions have absolutely dominated the political, environmental and corporate agenda.

Most people simply never understood what was going on. If anyone cares to research the 'conspiracy theory' behind this issue as presented by the far-right, you will discover that they attribute the Club of Rome findings, the international efforts which deal with (or fair to deal with) population control, and the promotion of a multinational--ecosustainable--elitist-- socialistic future to a single person. That person is David Rockefeller acting through a great many organizations over which he presides such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, etc... I'd suggest that these conspiracy folks are on the right track.

Their interpretation is, as is usually the case, greatly distorted by their need to fit their observations within a model that works for them ideologically - but if you examine the data that has attracted their attention and re-interpret it using your own value system, you just might reach a set of conclusions that works well FOR YOU. I suggest that these conspiracy folks have done a remarkably good job of identifying the correct smoking gun. They are pointing to evidence that could answer the question Reuben asked---namely: "why is virtually no one paying attention to the population problem."

Their explanations may miss the mark by a country mile, but missing by a mile is coming closer than much of the environmental community or the so-called progressive community has come. And there's a reason for that. Ask yourself who funds the corporatized environmental community and what do these funders expect/demand for their investment? Who/What is PEW? Who are the Rockefellers? Who are the MacArthurs, the Motts, the W. Alton Jones, etc??? Where do their fortunes come from? How where these fortunes amassed? What are the ideological beliefs of the founders of these foundations? AND knowing the answers to all of the above, what specifically can you believe/accept these foundations truly hope to accomplish through their philanthropy? (ie., cutting through the crap, what do these foundations really want!?)

There are a great many right-wingers who have asked these questions. Their data is generally good, their interpretations are often turned inside out to my way of thinking. There are likewise a handful of progressive (left-wing) thinkers who have asked these same questions and who have provided answers for all to discover, test, accept or reject as people so desire. The clear, progressive, thinkers are Mark Dowie, Brian Tokar, Jeff St. Clair, Kenny Bruno, William Greider, and a few others. In the smallest of possible nutshells, these people say that the reason mainstream environmentalism avoids such issues as over-population is because these big-greens have been bought off by the corporate foundations who themselves seek ways AROUND the "Limits to Growth" as documented in the Club of Rome report 30 years ago.

Collectively these foundations and Captains of Corporate America seek to expand the limits to growth by finding techno-fixes that will allow for (will actually facilitate) a growing population of unfettered consumers while ensuring the (pseudo)-survival of the planet in spite of this growing population.

Some would say this is insanity---or, at a minimum, is the wrong tact. Some would call it a "win-win". Some would say that we have an overpopulation problem that must be dealt with directly. But, as Reuben pointed out, you do not hear that message from the Big-Greens or from the United Nations, or from Corporate America and the media that they control/own. And clearly there is an explanation for this too. There always is an explanation. Chance rarely counts in the game of politics.

Those curious to explore this issue might find it rewarding to look amongst the writings of the writers identified above and to explore the right-wing writings which pertain to the New World Order and The Global Environmental Agenda. If you do, you might conclude that those on the right and on the left have identified and focused their attention upon the very same smoking gun. "Sustainable Growth" is, I would suggest, the most important issue defining global policies/politics today. Those believing in one political ideology refer to this as "Globalization", those from the opposite ideology call it "New World Order". Imagine what might happen if those from opposite ideologies tried to learn from each other! Imagine the perspective that could be gained by combining the observations of those seeing to the Left of the corporate filter with those seeing to the Right of that same filter.

Globalization/NWO is the umbrella issue which enshrouds and envelops all other environmental issues. Population is simply one of the issues subsumed within the issue of Globalization/NWO. How we deal with Globalization/NWO during the next 10-20 years will determine the fate of humanity. If we don't deal with it effective and correctly, we will end up paying a steep price for our failures. Our continued failure to confront the population issue, ensures our failure as a species.

Scott Silver/Wild Wilderness

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