Time to Cull the Herd

Every once in a while, you will see somebody commit a “Kinsley gaffe.” This is Named after Michael Kinsley, who rose to fame as a writer for The New Republic and as a TV commentator. 

A Kinsley gaffe is simple to understand: It’s when a person, usually a politician, accidentally tells you what they think when they didn’t intend to. 

A great example of a Kinsley gaffe popped up that I thought I would share because it says the quiet part out loud: the climate change extremists want you dead. It is summed up in the meme:

It is not an exaggeration to say this. It simply is true. There is a Malthusian strain in the Left and has been for a very long time. And it’s not just the mistaken notion that human population will outstrip the ability of the Earth to sustain us, which is the minimal claim they make; there is a strain of this thought that outright argues that human beings are inherently bad and should die off. 

There is even an organization calling for “voluntary human extinction,” which argues that humanity’s evolution was a bad thing. Luckily this is a small movement. Usually you get a more modest version arguing that an 80%-90% reduction in human population is about right. 

The Kinsley gaffe came from climate scientist Bill McGuire, who is from the Just Stop Oil fringe of the climate movement. Now before you think that makes him totally fringe, know that these people get money funneled to them from some more “mainstream” climate activists. They are the shock troops for the movement. 

McGuire said the quiet part out loud:

McGuire argues that we need to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2030, and he also believes that this will be impossible without a major die-off. 

I dispute the first part, but the second part is obviously true. Emissions keep rising despite all the whinging, and the only time they have fallen even a tiny bit is during crises, including COVID. Since the shutdowns ended, emissions have gone back on an upward trajectory.

Hence the tweet: it will take a massive die-off to achieve the goal he believes is absolutely necessary. 

McGuire has deleted his tweet and is rapidly backtracking on Twitter, but the point stands even in his backtracking:

Reworded

Emissions have only fallen at times of major economic shock, due to pandemic or otherwise

A much bigger one is the only way emissions will fall by at least 50% in 66 months – needed to have any chance of dodging dangerous, all pervasive, #climate breakdown pic.twitter.com/vsdbVl3Wma

— Bill McGuire (@ProfBillMcGuire) May 12, 2024

McGuire, you see, is committed to the goal; the goal requires a die-off far greater than anything ever seen in history, which leads us to conclude that he wouldn’t be unhappy to see that die-off. That is the minimalist interpretation. 

Here’s his first defense, essentially saying “If it’s not mass death, then come up with a better idea!”

Turning things around

Would love to hear how emissions can be cut by at least 50% in the next 66 months (by 2030) without a major- socio-economic shock that slashes economic activity

This MUST happen to have any chance of sidestepping dangerous, all-pervasive, climate breakdown pic.twitter.com/qGWEAI30d5

— Bill McGuire (@ProfBillMcGuire) May 12, 2024

Now McGuire doesn’t enjoy the consequences of his Kinsley gaffe, both because it is unpleasant to have people slagging you when you are used to being adored, but also because this is bad PR. 

In the history of propaganda, I can’t find an example of a successful campaign that begins with “You should die a painful death.” I suspect that it wouldn’t work, and McGuire seems to agree with me. It was a big “oops” on his part. 

The climate cult wants you dead.

You are the carbon they want to reduce. pic.twitter.com/7J8loNhVEG

— Clown World Today 🤡🌎 (@cwt_news) May 5, 2024

The more common line of attack is antinatalism, anti-farming, anti-fossil fuel, abortion, and euthanasia activism. These are more socially acceptable ways of saying much the same thing. Bill Gates has mused about reducing population while at the same time buying up farmland, and the WEF and EU are working hard to reduce the food supply. 

But nobody likes to say “I hope you die a quick death.”

German ad: “Future or climate killer?”
Remember, you are the carbon they want to reduce. pic.twitter.com/6tJS0nqDmI

— Memology 101 (@NewsM101) May 11, 2024

Still, the propaganda against people is constant. If you look at polls of young people they are turning away from wanting to have children, and it’s clear that the alphabet agenda is aimed at stopping childbirth. Sterilized people and those who only have sex with others of the same sex don’t produce children, although they occasionally buy them. 

“Having children doesn’t make you happy, according to Paris study” Daily Mail Online

“I’m a mum and I regret having children, I hate being a mother, I’m not even sure I love my daughter” The Sun pic.twitter.com/fW9vq6hhxE

— Nathaniel Francesco (@TradicalNatPop) July 28, 2023

Often the propaganda isn’t of the “We are all going to die if you have kids” genre; there is also a push to glamourize the “DINK” lifestyle for the people who can’t escape their heterosexuality. 

This is the “kids are a drain on you” genre. You can spend your money better!

It amounts to the same idea: depopulate. 

It is not an exaggeration to say that “you are the carbon they want to reduce” because, well, YOU ARE THE CARBON THEY WANT TO REDUCE. 

It’s a mainstream position on the Left. Ask your friends how many of their kids either don’t want kids or only want one. It’s a worrying number. And it is reflected in the census numbers. 

Look at what has happened since 2010. And those numbers are worse in many countries. 

This isn’t an accident; it is something that our elites have been pushing since at least the 60s. The China one-child policy was pushed relentlessly both there and in the West, as were India’s antinatal policies which they thankfully abandoned. There is still a massive push to drive African birth rates down. 

Africa doesn’t need fewer Africans, but more economic growth. But that produces CARBON and can’t be allowed. 

Back to McGuire: he said the quiet part out loud, which makes you wonder…is somebody more radical than he interested in making that pandemic happen?

I hope not. But after the past few years you have to wonder.