“Bill Gates: Vaccines Can Help Decrease Surplus Population,” notes the Salvo Blog:
Echoing Thomas Malthus and the social Darwinism of the last century, Gates reduced human survival to a matter of algebra. In remarks made to the Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, California, his assessment of the planet’s problem was remarkably simple: CO2 (total population emitted CO2 per year) = P (people) x S (services per person) x E (average energy per service) x C (average CO2 emitted per unit of energy)
After presenting this equation, Gates explained that the goal was to “look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.” While discussing ‘P’, he said, “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
That’s right. Rather than leading to more life, which was the original purpose of both vaccines and healthcare, they will lead to less. (If it seems unusual that “healthcare” would be cited as a way of limiting the human population, one needs only consider the 1990 Tetanus scandal, when the WHO secretly sterilized three million woman who thought they were merely being vaccinated against Tetanus.)* * *
From Politically Correct to Incorrect
Population control is not a mere eastern innovation but has an impressive pedigree among the sages of the West. In fact, up until the early 20th century, it was politically fashionable for liberals to talk about decreasing the surplus population. 20th century advocates of population control would often draw on the social theories of men like of Sir Francis Galton and Thomas Malthus who, a century earlier, had argued that the poor were draining the world’s recourses. (One of Malthus’s solutions was to reduce the surplus population by introducing policies specifically designed to bring death to large numbers of peasants. For example, he encouraged poor people to move near swamps, so that they would catch diseases and begin dying off.)
Throughout the 20th century, Malthusian ideas on population control were linked to theories of eugenics and social Darwinism. It was not until Hitler tried to move these ideas out of the anthropology class and into the gas chamber that population control stopped being a politically correct topic.
It wouldn’t take long for the sceptre of Hitler to wear off. Following the huge birth explosion that occurred in the mid to late 20th century, population control gradually returned to the national limelight. But this time, instead of being explicitly linked to theories like eugenics and social Darwinism, it was propelled by the emerging ideology of environmentalism.
Read the whole thing, which was found via Orrin Judd, who quips that Microsoft “was a criminal enterprise, but at least it wasn’t an exterminationist one.”
But think of the cross-promotional opportunities! Microsoft could launch their own version of Apple’s “Think Different” campaign featuring Margaret Sanger and H.G. Wells, or George Bernard Shaw. Perhaps new Windows PC could ship with a director’s edition of M. Night Shyamalan’s 2008 film, The Happening. Or at least a PDF file of this “classic” work by Obama science czar, John Holdren.
Too bad Al Gore has already hooked up with Apple; at last, Microsoft could be the digital brown shirts of his dreams.
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