Ted Turner: Reduce the Population

Turner said he also put $125 million of his own money into a foundation to support environmental and population control efforts in the U.S. and abroad. The endowment spends about $6 million a year on projects designed to lower the world’s population from the present six billion people to two billion or less.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Sep 18, 1996

As Albertans continue to shake off one of the longest winters in memory, Turner had predicted 18 years ago that temperatures would have started soaring toward 8 degrees hotter. Notably, in his interview with 60 Minutes, he echoes what many globalists have been suggesting: that we need to abandon fossil fuels in order to save the planet.

We have to fully mobilize everything we have and put it into changing the energy system over. And not just here in the United States, but all over the world. It’s going to be the business, biggest business project in the history of the world. Fortunes, billions of dollars are going to be made.

Ted Turner on 60 minutes (video below)

While “fortunes” have indeed been made, they’ve been made by “green” corporations cashing in on government subsidies and the sale of carbon credits. The transition to renewables has, in fact, driven up energy prices worldwide.¹ One peer-reviewed study has found that the cost of green economics is three times higher than the benefits. Since reliable base power (natural gas, hydro, coal, nuclear, etc.) is always necessary, Turner’s promises of green fortunes are only for the wealthy recipients of green subsidies and wealth transfer from the middle and lower classes. On top of paying more for electricity, citizens have also been punished with carbon taxes on both goods and fuel, causing inflationary pressures that are only increasing, even without the Iranian war.

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to be employed. We’re going to have clean air. We’re going to have so many benefits from it, it’s not going to cost us anything once we get going with it. It’s not going to cost us anything. Only the people that don’t understand it think it’s going to. Not doing it will be catastrophic.

Ibid.

Well, here we are. Ocean levels have not risen.² Barack Obama bought oceanfront property. And Al Gore is starting to warn of global cooling. ³ Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has jettisoned its apocalyptic language.⁴

We’ll have eight degrees. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 10, not 10, but in 30 or 40 years. And basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died, and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Ibid.

The interview then takes a darker turn…

Ted Turner: And then after that, we’ve got to stabilize the population.

Charlie Rose: When I was born, there were too many people.

Ted Turner: That’s why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they’d be using less stuff.

Someone caught up to Turner on the street in the next video, and asked exactly what the population of the earth should be. His reply?

I think 2 billion is about right.

Ted Turner (see video below)

Green politics and depopulation have a curious way of going hand in hand.

1. cf. energynow.ca, forbes.com, etc.[↩]
2. cf. here[↩]
3. msn.com[↩]
4. cf. dailysceptic.com[↩]