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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsScientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable...
I guess back in 2012, none of the scientists thought of a highly contagious plague to solve this problem.
Scientists: Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?
1/26/12 9:15AM
WASHINGTONSaying theres no way around it at this point, a coalition of scientists announced Thursday that one-third of the world population must die to prevent wide-scale depletion of the planets resourcesand that humankind needs to figure out immediately how it wants to go about killing off more than 2 billion members of its species.
Representing multiple fields of study, including ecology, agriculture, biology, and economics, the researchers told reporters that facts are facts: Humanity has far exceeded its sustainable population size, so either one in three humans can choose how they want to die themselves, or there can be some sort of government-mandated liquidation programbut either way, people have to start dying.
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The longer we wait, the higher the number of people who will have to die, so we might as well just get it over with, said Dr. Chelsea Klepper, head of agricultural studies at Purdue University, and the leading proponent of a worldwide death day in which 2.3 billion people would kill themselves en masse at the exact same time. At this point, its merely a question of coordination. If we can get the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Beijing, India, Europe, and Latin America to voluntarily off themselves at 6 p.m. EST on June 1, we can kill the people that need to be killed and the planet can finally start renewing its resources.
Thus far, humanity has been presented with a great variety of death options, among them, poisoning the worlds water supply with cadmium, picking one person per household to be killed in the privacy of his or her home, mass beheadings, and gathering 2.3 billion people all in one place and obliterating them with a single hydrogen bomb.
More: https://www.theonion.com/scientists-look-one-third-of-the-human-race-has-to-di-1819573235
1/26/12 9:15AM
WASHINGTONSaying theres no way around it at this point, a coalition of scientists announced Thursday that one-third of the world population must die to prevent wide-scale depletion of the planets resourcesand that humankind needs to figure out immediately how it wants to go about killing off more than 2 billion members of its species.
Representing multiple fields of study, including ecology, agriculture, biology, and economics, the researchers told reporters that facts are facts: Humanity has far exceeded its sustainable population size, so either one in three humans can choose how they want to die themselves, or there can be some sort of government-mandated liquidation programbut either way, people have to start dying.
<SNIP>
The longer we wait, the higher the number of people who will have to die, so we might as well just get it over with, said Dr. Chelsea Klepper, head of agricultural studies at Purdue University, and the leading proponent of a worldwide death day in which 2.3 billion people would kill themselves en masse at the exact same time. At this point, its merely a question of coordination. If we can get the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Beijing, India, Europe, and Latin America to voluntarily off themselves at 6 p.m. EST on June 1, we can kill the people that need to be killed and the planet can finally start renewing its resources.
Thus far, humanity has been presented with a great variety of death options, among them, poisoning the worlds water supply with cadmium, picking one person per household to be killed in the privacy of his or her home, mass beheadings, and gathering 2.3 billion people all in one place and obliterating them with a single hydrogen bomb.
More: https://www.theonion.com/scientists-look-one-third-of-the-human-race-has-to-di-1819573235
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Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable... (Original Post)
csziggy
Apr 2020
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(3,154 posts)1. I remember a person's pics he posted of stockpiles of caskets years ago
It was odd. They were caskets designed for multiple bodies it seemed, and stacked in a field surrounded/hidden by trees and bushes. There were 10s of thousands of them.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)2. Could it have been this story?
Obama Quietly Orders Millions of Disposable Coffins?
The Obama administration has not ordered $1 billion worth of 'disposable' coffins for use with 'FEMA camps.'
David Mikkelson
Published 13 October 2014
Obama has been operating behind the scenes to prepare an action in case of an American revolt that will not only squash a revolution, but kill many of its participants. The first step of this action would be to disarm the American people, and throw anyone that is, or might be, a threat into a detention center a FEMA camp. During the course of the revolt, many will die, both in battle and in the camps an inevitable circumstance Obama is already preparing for.The current President of the United States, amongst other things, has already ordered $1 Billion dollars worth of disposable coffin liners. Around the country is stored the 5 million, what will be, FEMA coffins in various locations.
This rumor resurfaced in October 2014 during the midst of public concern over an outbreak of Ebola, with claims that the coffins (or coffin liners) were being stockpiled in anticipation of a large number of fatalities from that disease in the U.S. However, the story and pictures are several years old, the objects shown have nothing to do with Ebola or FEMA or any other agency of the U.S. government, and the pictured items were around long before Barack Obama was first elected to the presidency of the U.S. in 2008.
Whats shown in the photos displayed with the FEMA camp story are not plastic coffins or disposable coffins, but rather whats known as burial vaults or grave liners. These liners dont hold human remains in themselves; theyre a protective shell that coffins are placed into before interment in areas where water seepage or ground subsidence is an issue.
As the Morgan County Citizen reported in 2008, tens of thousands of these liners were stored on leased land in Madison, Georgia, back in the 1990s by their manufacturer, the nearby Vantage Products Corporation (based in Covington, Georgia), for distribution to other areas on an as-needed basis. Since the coffin liners are made to withstand the elements, there was no need for Vantage to store them indoors, so they simply leased a large, unused outdoor field for use as a warehouse.
Nonetheless, Vantages storage situation eventually gave rise to wild conspiracy theories which flared up in 2008, rumors that claimed some half million of the liners (about ten times the actual number being stored in Georgia) were the property of the U.S. government and were being stockpiled in anticipation of a biological disaster, the implementation of martial law, or the imprisonment of thousands of U.S. citizens in FEMA-run concentration camps:
More: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/false-coffin-corner/
The Obama administration has not ordered $1 billion worth of 'disposable' coffins for use with 'FEMA camps.'
David Mikkelson
Published 13 October 2014
Obama has been operating behind the scenes to prepare an action in case of an American revolt that will not only squash a revolution, but kill many of its participants. The first step of this action would be to disarm the American people, and throw anyone that is, or might be, a threat into a detention center a FEMA camp. During the course of the revolt, many will die, both in battle and in the camps an inevitable circumstance Obama is already preparing for.The current President of the United States, amongst other things, has already ordered $1 Billion dollars worth of disposable coffin liners. Around the country is stored the 5 million, what will be, FEMA coffins in various locations.
This rumor resurfaced in October 2014 during the midst of public concern over an outbreak of Ebola, with claims that the coffins (or coffin liners) were being stockpiled in anticipation of a large number of fatalities from that disease in the U.S. However, the story and pictures are several years old, the objects shown have nothing to do with Ebola or FEMA or any other agency of the U.S. government, and the pictured items were around long before Barack Obama was first elected to the presidency of the U.S. in 2008.
Whats shown in the photos displayed with the FEMA camp story are not plastic coffins or disposable coffins, but rather whats known as burial vaults or grave liners. These liners dont hold human remains in themselves; theyre a protective shell that coffins are placed into before interment in areas where water seepage or ground subsidence is an issue.
As the Morgan County Citizen reported in 2008, tens of thousands of these liners were stored on leased land in Madison, Georgia, back in the 1990s by their manufacturer, the nearby Vantage Products Corporation (based in Covington, Georgia), for distribution to other areas on an as-needed basis. Since the coffin liners are made to withstand the elements, there was no need for Vantage to store them indoors, so they simply leased a large, unused outdoor field for use as a warehouse.
Nonetheless, Vantages storage situation eventually gave rise to wild conspiracy theories which flared up in 2008, rumors that claimed some half million of the liners (about ten times the actual number being stored in Georgia) were the property of the U.S. government and were being stockpiled in anticipation of a biological disaster, the implementation of martial law, or the imprisonment of thousands of U.S. citizens in FEMA-run concentration camps:
More: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/false-coffin-corner/
Of course, Snopes.com labels this as false.