The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE UNEXPECTED ORIGIN OF THE ‘CLIMATE CRISIS’

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

Jeffery Jaxen takes a deep dive into the origin of the ‘climate crisis’ narrative, highlighting the Club of Rome’s hand in crafting the modern day ploy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's dig down a little deeper and look at some of the roots of what a lot of people and historians say that is the genesis of where this ideology comes from. This rapid push with really no safety net on the other end to catch the societal change that's happening. So it brings us back to 1968. There was a two-day meeting in Rome, Italy, and it brought together economists, scientists, and they're basically discussing at that time, something they called the predicament of mankind. And it was a serious discussion. It was an invite only organization. And that organization was called the Club of Rome. And that's where it started, 1968.

And at that time, the Club of Rome was, you know, one of the big things they were discussing was overpopulation. That was an issue. That was kind of the issue of the time, the cause a celeb. A lot of people were talking about this. And in 1968, you have Arrillo Pachai. He was the founder of the Club of Rome. And he was basically an Italian part owner of Fiat.

He was very wealthy man. And a year later, he writes a book called The Chasm Ahead. And the Chasm Ahead, he's talking in this book, part of it was they're talking about birth control. They need to stop this overpopulation problem. And he's saying if we don't achieve it by birth control in a civilized manner, he's talking about if we can persuade people through maybe education or maybe handing out contraception. If that's not going to happen, he writes this. Some solution will come the hard way. many hypotheses have been advanced.

I will cite three ghastly solutions that are ventilated as belonging to the realm of the possible. One is biological. Nature, which maintains so many balances, will see to it that human incontinence will be remedied through some new germ or virus. Another is constrictive and prophylactic. The day may not be far off when by grafting of population from one region to another, force exodus or mass sterilization or with the help of other clean methods, biochemistry might

suggest, a seal. on population or new birth, which will be enforced in some nations by due process of law, and others perhaps by international measures. And a third, the harshest, is hinted at the most pessimistic essay by Professor J. D. Burnell, in his essay, Enormity of Logic and Hypocrisy in the Ultimate Solution, that's October 1967, one year before a club of Rome was founded, says this, there is no limit to human folly and callousness, in the sense that all will end, as the only compassionate and rational solution left with the elimination of all surplus humans who

will of course belong to the poor of the world no comment is necessary now these are chilling words this is the ideology of the time of how certain people thought and unfortunately these people had a great great power at that time clear eugenics is that the you know in the background here this is by definition what it means removing useless eaters from the earth and what's incredible as we're watching it take place, and they're going to get into some of this, is what they're selling it to is the poor. They're saying, oh, we're here to save you

when what they really see is eliminating you, and taking away our travel, taking away these things. We become more and more useless to the planet we live on, and then if we're in the hands of the rich oligarchs they're taking over at some point, they say, you know what? Birth control isn't working.

By the way, it's one of the major arguments I have against all mandates of vaccines ever, which is vaccine is the easiest way to sterilize you. We use sterilizing vaccines on population of deer all over American for different things. We've seen sterilizing vaccines used in Africa and India. They've been caught out for that. So why would you ever give your government the tool to inject you with products who have no control over, cannot analyze, aren't allowed to see what the contents are?

One day, I assure you, these people are in government everywhere, which is what you're getting to, and we're going to have them the ability to inject us without our control with products. We've no idea what's in them. That is the stupidest decision we would ever make. And it's one of the primary reasons I can. Our nonprofit fights in courts every day and fights our government and sues our government every day to stop this attempt to control our bodies and inject us. Here's just a small list of the wins we've had, of course, restoring the religious exemption to Mississippi. We're working on other states as we speak and we'll keep you tuned. But this is a battle cry for us that I can. I do not believe you should

ever be forcibly inject by your government or you are not a free citizen. You are a farm animal. Right. And so we have, we pick up the story. So 1968, Club of Rome is formed. It's an invite-only group. A lot of the people that were the forming group, the original forming group, had a lot of NATO affiliations, which was interesting. But so they have this, this question, the predicament of mankind. How do we solve this? How do we really bring this to the masses to, how do we really bring this to have them get it. Two years later, 1970, the Club of Rome tasks, funds a small group of young scientists out of MIT. They have a computer there, one of the world's most powerful computers, and they run a computer program through there with different biases on these ratios,

things like that, to forecast the conditions of the planet, the future conditions of the planet. And this is what the media picked up on. This is what you were watching back then if you saw this on the news. Take a look. It's not some science fantasy effect from 2001. This electronic display emanating from Australia's largest computer is a picture of the condition past, present and future of planet Earth. The program was originally devised by a scientist working from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jay Forrester.

It was developed under the auspices of the Club of Rome by an MIT research team to present a complex model of the world and what we humans are doing to it. On the left-hand side of the graph is the date, 1900, 1940, 1980, 2020, right down to 2016. Now, each of these lines of letters represents a curve showing some aspect of the condition of the planet. The further out this way they go, the greater that figure is, the further this way, the less. For example, P represents population.

So here it is at 1900, and then it comes up to 1940, it starts to. to take off. Here we are at 1980, up to the turn of the century, and then it starts to peter off. Let's now have a look at this next curve, the Q curve, which is the quality of life. And this is represented by, for example, the amount of space people have, the amount of money they have to spend, the amount of food they have to eat. Now it increases rapidly up to 1940, but from 1940 on, the quality of life diminishes. And here we are about the turn of the and we come up to the year 2020 and it's really come right back. More people, of course, means that you start to chew up your supply of natural resources.

And this is this curve here, the end curve, that shows that slowly but steadily, the pool of natural wealth in the world, natural resources, minerals, oil and so on, is slowly but steadily diminishing. So this is the situation. As population increases, the quality of life decreases, and the supply of natural resources, supply of natural resources decreases. But have a look at this curve here. This is called the Z-curve and it represents pollution. Now, predictably enough, as the population increases up to 1980, pollution increases. There's more rubbish. But from 1980 to the year 2020, pollution

really takes off. This is assuming, of course, that we don't do anything about it. So the year 2020, the condition of the planet starts to become highly critical. And if we don't do anything about it, this is what's going to happen. The quality of life is going to go right back to practically zero. Pollution is going to become so serious right out here that it will start to kill people so the population will diminish right back here, less than it was in the year 1900. And at this stage, round about the year 2040, 2050, civilized life as we know on this planet will cease to exist. It's incredible to see that the fate of humanity

was obviously designed by the same computer that brought us the advancement of Pong, the game, and we've never stopped since. All the computing power of your everyday app in your iPhone right now, probably in that computer. But what we really saw there was the world's first doomsday computer modeling scenario to Stoke Fear in the population.

So as people have just lived through the pandemic response, think Neil Ferguson's Imperial College model saying that over a million people were going to die when this thing first came out actually helped lead to the lockdowns in the United States and other countries. And it was vastly over-exaggerated. And so this is this is what we're seeing here. Unfortunately, we didn't have the independent journalists mobilized in 1968 to combat this on the, or in 1970 to combat this on the spot. But the journalists that were there, the person you just saw, he sat down with the founders and the co-founders of the Club of Rome after showing that graph. And he asked them some questions. Some of the answers are really telling. So take a look at this.

All right. The Club of Rome comprises some 70 men of widely varying backgrounds. But their common concern is that the world problems cannot be solved by individual nations. I spoke with Professor Hugo Teeman, director of the Battelle Institute, Geneva, Dr. Aurelio Pache, founder of the Cloud. and Dr. Alexander King, Director of the World Bank and the United Nations OECD. Dr. King, now you're describing the world as a closed system where all these things are interrelated, and yet the government, the control of the system, is by individual nation-states. Now, how do you convince them to cooperate?

The sovereignty of these nations is no longer as absolute as it was. There's a gradual diminishing, whittling away of sovereignty little bit by little bit, especially of course in the smaller countries where it's more obvious, but the bigger countries have to do a good deal of this by agreeing with into international arrangements for the law of the seas or for the limits of fishing or for control of the wavelengths and radio and 101 other things. Wow, there is global globalization. Very important there.

So you have this computer model that just scared everyone. on primetime TV really throughout the world. And he's asking, all right, how are you gonna get people to act on this? He said, well, we're gonna gradually reduce sovereignty of large nations. We're gonna have them agree to international arrangements. So hold on to that for a second.

So we have in 1972, as we're following this timeline, the Club of Rome writes a book called The Limits to Growth. This book really marked a turning point in thinking about the environment. sold something like 30 million copies 30 languages it was really the big turning point there and that's four years into the inception of the club of Rome and remember at that time the world was a very very different place so you had rachel carson with silent spring her book in the early 60s that raised concerns about pollution from corporations pesticide spraying and that really sparked

the modern environmental movement and that was grassroots and that was from the people for the people and then 1968 the same year the club of Rome was formed you have Paul Ehrlich who we covered on this show his book the population bomb where he argued obviously the population was a problem we had to reduce the population make sure people weren't really you know having as many kids because the future of the planet depends on it first earth day 1970 Nixon created the environmental protection agency in 1970 you have this this ideology at that time and so we we step back for a second and there's an author and a really vocal critic against what was called climate alarmism. His name is Bjorn Lumberg.

And he wrote a paper, environmental alarmism then and now, the Club of Rome's problem in ours. And he really encapsulate this great. He says this. Carson, that's Rachel Carson, wanted to stop the use of pesticides. Erlich, Paul Ehrlich, wanted to slow population growth. But the limits to growth book seem to show that even if pollution and population growth were controlled, the world's resources would eventually be exhausted and food production

would decline back to the sustenance level. The only hope was to stop economic growth itself. And there, Lumberg peels back the layers and really gets to the heart of the Club of Rome, which was stopping economic growth itself. All the other stuff is also in there, you know, reducing the population, reducing pollution, things like that. But it's the economic growth that drove this. So throughout the 70s and 80s, the Club of Rome enjoyed a lot of press.

So here they are in the New York Times, 1976. Six, need for social change is seen by Club of Rome, and you read this article at the newspaper, in the conditions of the coming times, the necessity of reestablishing a viable world balance between population and resources if the present generation is not able to timely adopt the necessary corrective measures will inevitably tend to bring about a technocratic version of Oriental depotism of which Stalinism and Nazism have already given us an anticipated view. This is Professor Helio Aguirbi. He was also a member of the Club of Rome from Brazil, and he was quoted.

He gets the main quote in that paper. So they have this problem. They have to slow down, you know, societal growth. They have to deal with the population. But people, you know, people aren't really paying attention like they should. So that brings us to Alexander King in 1991. He's the guy that was quoted in that black and white. Former head of the World Bank, right?

Yeah, former head of the World Bank, bank, co-founder of the Club of Rome, saying that we need to gradually reduce sovereignty. well, we still haven't figured out a way to really do that in supercharged that effectively. So he writes a book, a co-authors a book called The First Global Revolution. And in this book, this is what he writes. And this is really one of the key paragraphs. People really need to see this. The common enemy of humanity is man.

He says, that's the title. He says, in searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions, these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into a trap about which we have already worn, namely mistakenly, mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviors that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself. Wow. I mean, what's amazing about this and not to, I mean, like, I'm maybe over-reflecting on my political upbringing,

but I have said on the show, the thing that really has grown on me and bothered me the most about transitioning into a place where I consider myself politically marooned, but is the idea that I really do think now, looking back on my childhood and growing up, a foundational principle of being a Democrat, was that human beings are a disease on this planet. I remember having this. conversation in depth, you know, with friends and we would get off on this discussion on how you would limit populations and joke about now we're going to populate other, you know, planets and disease them too. That is, I think, if I was going to say, the biggest shift in my own consciousness is I see the beauty in humanity, not in the death of the planet, as though we could kill the planet, as though anything we do really to ourselves with this planet, that it won't over the years

survive itself, fix its problem. It's just our existence on this that is hanging in the balance. But really an amazing statement that humanity is the enemy. So Alexander King writes that in 1991. He's the person that says we need to reduce sovereignty by having countries sign on to international agreements. So what type of international agreements? Enter Maurice Strong. Maurice Strong made his money in oil and minerals. So basically exploiting the planet like the Club of Rome is saying is bad. And this is an article. that really encapsulates Mory Strong in one view. Maurice Strong Climate Crook.

It says in 1972, he organized for Uthat. Uthat was the Secretary General United Nations. The first Earth Summit, the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. This led to the formation of the UN Environment Program with Morris Strong at its head. Later, as the UNIP boss, you organized the first international expert group meeting on climate change. It goes on to say this led to exotic UN sponsor organizations such as the Earth Council, the Earth Charter, the World Resource Institute,

the World Wildlife Fund, and later the Commission for World Governance and the UN's University for Peace. Strong was the driving force behind the idea of world governance by the United Nations. I mean, this is, Jeffrey, this is so mind-blowing, because you have them dictating then that climate change is just we've looked at all the options to make us hate ourselves and attack each other so that we can crush and become a global system. And climate, you know, seems to be the thing we can make everybody argue on. you find out that the environmental movement, if you will, the modern movement, then the UN takeover is driven by a rich oil oligarch. I mean, everyone on the planet needs to know this right now to understand what conversation we're really having here.

What is really going on? It's spectacular. And remember, we can't have any outlier countries. We can't have countries standing on their own. So we have the United Nations outside of any individual government having agreements that countries need to sign on to or that they do. sign on to. And we have Elaine DeWar. She was a journalist and she was on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the time in 1991. She's an investigative journalist and science writer. And she wrote the book Cloak of Green. And in that book, she was watching the maneuvers of Maurice Strong at that conference.

And she says this, Strong was using the UN as a platform to sell a global environmental crisis and the global governance agenda. That's a term that she coined. And what did Strong produce at that at that actual 1991 UN conference, he produced a document called Agenda 21. This is it right here. UN Conference on Environment Development, Rio de Janeiro. That's 1992. And this was an overall action plan for what was called sustainable development. And that, of course, as the years went on, this turned into Agenda 2030 with other goals for

this sustainable development. And some of those goals were in those UK fires document to kind of shut the, down industry. And you can see the COVID pandemic is intricately intertwined with Agenda 2030. This is the WF's homepage here, World Economic Forum. It says the 2030 agenda as blueprint for a post-COVID world. So what happened during the COVID response kind of jump started the world into this 2030 agenda. And so now we have the Club of Rome here. They're kind of fully out in the open at this point, obviously not perhaps with as much influence as they used to have. This was a German, a German newspaper. They write this, one percent growth is enough. A renowned think

tank, it writes, this is the club of Rome they're talking about, is calling for radical shift in solving the world's problems. Among other things, countries should slow down economic growth to only 1% to promote a one child policy. And remember, China had a one child policy. And they've actually reversed that at that point because it was internationally disastrous from other countries looking in on this and they're still recovering from that. And so as people are trying to make sense of a reckless, nonsensical policy that they're seeing with this current push to net zero, the window that we're showing here into the roots of this ideology rather than appearing like suddenly out of nowhere is more methodical

and intricately planned. It's an operation, so to speak. And we're part of the endgame of something that really has been in the planning of this stage of it since the 1960s. And if you look at the Club of Rome itself overall, you look at some of its members past and present, you see Bill Gates. You see Ted Turner, who started CNN. He gave a billion dollars the United Nations organization. Literally the propaganda machine that sold us this agenda through our television sets. Think about what CNN was, the first 24-hour news station that would start selling you an agenda for a change of the world. Absolutely.

Absolutely, absolutely. And you have former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev was also part of this. And even Klaus Schwab, he wasn't outwardly a part of the Club of Rome, but he started something called the European Management Forum in 1971. Remember, Club of Rome started in 68. In 1971, that European Management Forum turned into the World Economic Forum. And at the time it was formed, a lot of the same ideologies were being woven in at that time to the formation of that Euro. European Management Forum, which was, you know, sustainability for the environment, thinking about the environment first, thinking about how to change society and culture through business and through economics. Wow, Jeffrey. I know you're going to go deeper. There's a lot more connections as we sort of come into the modern age. And then really what sort of set all of this up and really super fascinating reporting, for

all of you out there, I mean, I guess there may be people watching it saying, wow, what did I like sign up for a history lesson here, but folks, you know, you keep calling in and asking me everywhere I go, like, who is they? What's behind this? It is clearly laid out. The books are there, the documents are there, Jeffrey. I mean, just amazing, really a reflection for me into some of the ideals I was raised with. And I'll say it right here, because I still want clean water. I want to be able to fish in a river and bring it home and eat it, you know, the way my parents used to be able to. I don't want to have asthma running rampant because our air is terrible. I don't believe, you know, that we should have toxicity everywhere we go. We can do things about those

issues. But what we're seeing here is this idea of climate, this intangible concept of a world-ending phenomenon that's upon us and being caused by us and only by eradicating ourselves from this planet and stop eating food and making food and driving cars and traveling to see each other will we be able to fix this planet? This is an insanity I do not agree with. I do not agree with it. And we are going to use every tool we have to make sure that humanity is celebrated on this planet. And the beauty of what we are so important to see where this is coming from, Jeffrey.

Amazing reporting. I look forward to seeing where this investigation takes us. Absolutely. Well, you can be sure it will be absent alarmism and fear like we've been under for the last 60 years. with this climate agenda that's been been pushed in that space. Yes, as it was said, know your enemy, the art of war.