Population Control and a World Food Authority
Knowledge Driven Revolution
05.05.2008
Brent Jessop
“… it is of utmost importance that an equilibrium be
established between the world’s total population and the capacity of
’spaceship earth’…” – RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p124)
The establishment of a World Food Authority to control the food
supply of the world is a major goal of The Club of Rome’s RIO report.
This issue is intertwined with exaggerated fears of environmental
collapse and the elite’s obsession with population control.
The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed of approximately
100 members including leading scientists, philosophers, political
advisors, former politicians and many other influential bureaucrats and
technocrats. This series of articles describes the major conclusions of
the 1976 book Rio: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome
[1] coordinated by Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen. The RIO report
“addresses the following question: what new international order should
be recommended to the world’s statesmen and social groups so as to
meet, to the extent practically and realistically possible, the urgent
needs of today’s population and the probable needs of future
generations?”
Part 1
of this series gives an overview of the proposed new international
order described by the RIO report as “humanistic socialism”. This
includes: collective neighbourhood armies, a fully planned world
economy, global free trade, public international enterprises, proposed
changes in consumption patterns among other topics. Changes to the
financial system including international taxation and the creation of a
World Treasury, World Central Bank and World Currency are examined in part 2. Part 3
addresses the redefinition of sovereignty from “territorial
sovereignty” to “functional sovereignty” as well as the use of the
concept of the “common heritage of mankind” to gain international
control of not just the oceans, atmosphere and outer space but also all
material and non-material resources. Part 4 discusses the generation of public opinion and the use of white coated propagandists.
The Environmental Scare
From RIO: Reshaping the International Order:
[Italicised text is original emphasis and bolded text is added by author.]
“History has frequently shown that people, in times of
crisis and once convinced of the necessity for change, are prepared to
accept policies which demand changes in their behaviour so as to help
secure better lives for themselves and their children.” – 110
The threat of environmental catastrophe to further the population
control agenda is nothing new and continues to this day with the
manmade global warming scare. Back in the 1970’s the Club of Rome was
not shy at using the environmental catastrophe card to push for
population control. Below are some examples from RIO: Reshaping the International Order:
“Moreover, it has been estimated that by 1985 all land
surfaces, except those so cold or at such high altitudes as to be
incompatible with human habitation or exploration, will have been
occupied and utilized by man.” – 89“Although not yet proven, climatologists are being forced to
conclude that our planet has in recent times passed through a period
which may well have been optimal as far as food production is
concerned. They believe that future decades may well be characterized
by extremes – hot and cold, wet and dry – without necessarily a change
in average temperature. (4)” – 90
The endnote used to back up this claim is given below:
“(4) There is certainly sufficient evidence for this
concern: the Asian monsoons were unsatisfactory for three successive
years between 1972-1974; severe droughts in the Sahel and other parts
of Africa and the Great Plains area of the United States and Canada in
1974; an unexpected late frost in Brazil in 1975 which may have
destroyed as much as 60 per cent of its 1976 coffee crop. The growing
season of the best grain producing areas in the Soviet Union is now
believed to [be] about a week shorter than it was in the 1950’s; an
even more pronounced shift appears to have taken place in the United
Kingdom.” – 97
Do these types of arguments sound familiar?
“Much effort has been made in the past ten years, in
some industrialized countries, to bring the disadvantage facing many
Third World countries to the attention of large numbers of people. If
it has met with only limited success, it is probably because it has
failed to bring out the concept of interdependence of countries and issues. More attention must in future be focused on information and education on how our planet functions and on the ’survival fact’ that the claim of the whole is wider and deeper than the claim of any of its parts.
There is also a fundamental need to develop a broadly educated
political class which is capable of understanding science and the broad
implications, possibilities and dangers of technological advance, and
which can harness technological advance for constructive social
purposes.” – 111
Population Control and The World Food Authority
“… these threats [of food shortage] might well be
exacerbated by increasing population pressures and deteriorating
climatological conditions.” – 135“Population control policies carry the important indirect
consequence of restricting the supply of unskilled labour, thereby
raising its price.” – 73“If the world is to be liberated from the continual nightmares of
hunger and malnutrition, these and the various measures proposed by the
FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization] Worlds Food Conference should
be implemented to the full and call for the creation of the World Food Authority, with extensive and real powers; or, as a second best, the World Food Council proposed by the World Food Conference.” – 138“internationally owned and internationally managed [food] buffer stocks…” – 226
“the question of introducing meat rationing should be seriously considered [for developed countries].” – 227
Food as a Weapon
The incredible power that would be accomplished from a massive
concentration of food stocks under the control of a single agency did
not escape the authors of this report to the Club of Rome. The reigning
food situation in the world was dominated by the great dependence of
many countries on the North American breadbasket. This gave the
Americans a considerable amount of power over their dependent countries.
“the American Secretary for Agriculture who has
observed: “Food is a weapon. It is one of the principal tools in our
negotiating kit” ” – 29
The further centralization of food stocks under a single
international power would only increase the abuse of food supplies not
decrease it. This, quite naturally, is the point. The result of this
control is well described by Bertrand Russell (who strongly supported this idea) in his 1952 book The Impact of Science of Society [2]:
“To deal with this problem [increasing population and
decreasing food supplies] it will be necessary to find ways of
preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done
otherwise than by wars, pestilence, and famines, it will demand a
powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the
world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population
at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any nation
subsequently increased its population it should not on that account
receive any more food. The motive for not increasing population would
therefore be very compelling. What method of preventing an increase
might be preferred should be left to each state to decide.” – 124
Conclusion
The final article
in this series deals with a variety of issues including global
solidarity, regional unions, legal changes and a standing United
Nations Peace Force.
[1] Quotes from Jan Tinbergen, RIO: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome (1976). ISBN 0-525-04340-3
[2] Quotes from Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1952). ISBN 0-415-10906-X
