THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

must unite to fight] is humanity itself." (_The First Global Revolution_, Club of Rome,
p.115) "[Mankind is] the cancer of the planet." (U.S. Department of State Bulletin, Jan. 31,
1966, p.176) Accordingly, the U.S. government is currently setting aside huge tracts of
American land which will be off-limits to human beings, including locations where forcible
population transfer will be necessary. Clearly the much-publicized NA creed of "returning to
Nature" can mean something not anticipated by many who have jumped on the "Earth First"
bandwagon.
To deal with this "cancer" which is humanity, not only is the quality of human life to be
strictly controlled, but the quantity as well. Drastic reduction of the human "plague" is a NA
mandate of the highest order, and therefore (human) over-population is sold by the Western
media and government as the greatest menace facing the Earth today, beginning with the
landmark book, _The Population Bomb_, by Paul Ehrlich: "We must cut out the cancer of
population growth. Coercion? Perhaps, but coercion in a good cause." (p.11) The Georgia
Guidestones, a tourist site dubbed "America's Stonehenge", is a monument to New Age
priorities, and over-population gets attention from first to last - literally. Engraved on huge
granite slabs in 12 different languages (including Hebrew) are a NA equivalent to the Ten
Commandments, said to be dictated by anonymous "guides". Guideline Number One
specifies that earth's population must be reduced to 1/2 billion in order to "balance with
Nature", implying that at least 80% of humanity must be eliminated. Guideline Number Ten
reads: "Be not a cancer on the earth - leave room for nature, leave room for nature." While
the Guidestones were erected by an anonymous group which cannot claim to represent NA
leadership worldwide, prominent figures concur that catastrophic population reductions are
necessary for humanity's advancement: "The total world population should be not more than 2
billion, rather than the current 5.6 billion [in 1994]." (Cornell University professor David
Pimentel, speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science) The UN
was even more specific: "A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the
present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal
European standard, 2 to 3 billion would be possible." ("UNEP Global Assessment Report",
Phase One Draft, sec.9) [According to the UN Population Census table, its 1 billion limit
would take us back to the global population of the year 1804, and 2 billion to 1927.] At the
"State of the World Forum", sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation and attended by many
world leaders (San Francisco, 1995), Dr. Sam Keen, a respected NA philosopher, proposed
the more stringent Georgia Guidestones level of 1/2 billion: "Cut the population [of roughly
5.8 billion that year] by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of
ecological damage." (William Jasper, "Global Gorby", _The New American_, Oct. 30, 1995)
Al Gore, U.S. Vice President at the time, went so far as to blame over-population in Third
World countries for global warming. (_Washington Times_, "Third World Birth Control Tops
Gore's List of 'Global Warming' Cures", Oct. 1997) [How an abundance of dark-skinned
babies can affect global temperatures more than an abundance of American cars, power
plants, shopping malls and air conditioners is a mystery I'm still pondering. The fact that the
man wasn't laughed out of office provides yet more food for thought.]
[Note: Reputable scientists have been offering proof that the earth is not overpopulated at all,
but that the available land, food and populations are not being managed efficiently. Consider
Colin Clark, former Director of the Oxford University Agricultural Economic Institute, who
determined that with today's technology enough food can be produced to feed 35.1 billion
people with "an American-type diet" using only 50% of the earth's land mass. Or Roger
Revelle, former Director of the Harvard Center of Population Studies, who came up with a
figure providing a 2500-calorie diet for 40 billion, using only 25% of land - and having
enough left over for growing fiber, rubber, coffee/tea, and even tobacco! One would think