I was walking down Castro Street yesterday (transferring to another bus,
not patronizing the Crisco Disco), and I walked by a gay bookstore and
paused to check out its window display.  As I mentioned previously, gay
literature and cinema consists solely of pornography, and of course that
was all I saw in the window.  I didn’t enter the store, but if they
carried anything non-pornographic it was likely limited to Barbra
Streisand albums and posters.

Oh, and the highlight was the video titled "Bareback Mountain."  A few
months ago we were all making the obvious joke along the lines of
"bareback mounting" and someone certainly used "bareback mountain" and
of course it was an obvious pun name for a porn movie.

On 29 Jul 2006 03:19:03 -0700, kqurty…@gmail.com wrote:

>How probable would the above be and under what conditions? Would age
>matter in fast and quick progression?

Probability of infection to AIDS developing in 6-12 months is pretty
low. No particular conditions are associated with such rapid
progression. People over 40 or 50 who become infected may have a
somewhat more rapid progression.

Things that can accelerate progression include the kind of virus a
person is infected with (e.g., syncytia inducing), possibly the use of
crack or cocaine or heavy alcohol (some data dispute this and most
other drugs don’t influence progression so much), and more likely
certain co-infections, such as parastic infecitons.

If you want more specific data, PubMed is a good place to start.

If you are concerned, testing for HIV, viral load and CD4 count will
all help to clarify whether this is occurring. Do not hesitate to find
a therapist, friends/family and support group to deal with the
emotional issues that may arise!

                George M. Carter

Today on sciencedaily.com
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060727181314.htm):

 "In the July 28 issue of Cell, the USC-Harvard group shows that the
protein Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells (NFAT), in collaboration
with FOXP3, an essential factor in regulatory T cells, orchestrates a
genetic program critical to immune tolerance.

But the same NFAT, paired with a second family of proteins known as
AP-1, instead stimulates immune response."

When you combine this finding with the following studies, it is clear
that there is a redox situation that favors what is generally
considered "immunosuppression" in the "HIV/AIDS" context:

J Immunol. 1996 Jul 1;157(1):160-9.

Sublethal levels of oxidative stress stimulate transcriptional
activation of c-jun and suppress IL-2 promoter activation in Jurkat T
cells.

Beiqing L, Chen M, Whisler RL.

Department of Medical Biochemistry, William H. Davis Medical Research
Center, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.

Sublethal levels of oxidative stress are well known to alter T cell
functional responses, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The
current study examined the effects of oxidative stress on
transcriptional activities mediated by c-Fos/c-Jun AP-1 and the nuclear
factor of activated T cells (NF-AT). The present results show that
Jurkat T cells acutely exposed to micromolar concentrations of H2O2
exhibit substantial increases in AP-1 binding activity and the
expression of c-jun but not c-fos mRNA. The preferential induction of
c-jun by H2O2 did not represent redox stabilization of mRNA
transcripts, and oxidative signals closely resembled PHA/PMA
stimulation by effectively transactivating the full length c-jun
promoter via the proximal jun1 tumor promoter-responsive element
(TRE)-like promoter element. Similarly, the complexes binding the
consensus AP-1 TRE and jun TRE-like motifs in cells exposed to
oxidative signals or PHA/PMA were indistinguishable, being composed of
c-Fos, c-Jun, and JunD. However, PHA/PMA but not oxidative signals
induced the coordinate activation of reporter constructs containing the
AP-1-TRE, NF-AT, and IL-2 promoter regions along with IL-2 mRNA
expression. Furthermore, sublethal levels of H2O2 actively suppressed
the transcriptional activation of NF-AT and IL-2 reporters as well as
the expression of IL-2 mRNA in cells stimulated with PHA/PMA. Gel shift
analysis revealed that oxidative suppression of NF-AT represented
inhibition in the early generation of NFAT complexes rather than the
binding of preformed NF-AT complexes. These results suggest that
oxidative signals can positively and negatively regulate T cell
transcriptional events and that changes in cellular redox can uncouple
AP-1 regulation of c-jun from transcriptional up-regulation of IL-2 via
NF-AT.

And:

Cell Immunol. 1997 Jan 10;175(1):41-50.
Impaired induction of c-fos/c-jun genes and of transcriptional
regulatory proteins binding distinct c-fos/c-jun promoter elements in
activated human T cells during aging.Whisler RL, Chen M, Beiqing L,
Carle KW.
Department of Medical Biochemistry, The William H. Davis Medical
Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1228, USA.

The activation of transcriptional factor c-Fos/c-Jun AP-1 is essential
for normal T cell responsiveness and is often impaired in T cells
during aging. In the present study, we investigated whether aberrancies
in the regulation of c-fos/c-jun at the mRNA or protein level might
underlie the age-associated impairments of AP-1 in human T cells.
Whereas T cells from young subjects stimulated with cross-linked
anti-CD3epsilon mAb OKT3 plus PMA or with the lectin PHA plus PMA
demonstrated considerable increases in c-Fos protein expression, the
expression of c-Fos but not c-Jun was markedly reduced in stimulated T
cells from certain elderly subjects. In addition, RNase protection
assays revealed that anti-CD3/PMA-stimulated T cells from a substantial
proportion of elderly subjects exhibited decreased levels of c-fos
and/or c-jun mRNA compared to T cells from young subjects. Using
electrophoretic mobility shift assays, the levels of nuclear regulatory
proteins recognizing the AP-1 consensus TRE motif, the proximal c-jun
TRE-like promoter element, and the c-fos serum response element (SRE)
were determined in resting and stimulated T cells. Although the
stimulation of T cells from young subjects resulted in coordinated
increases of nuclear protein complexes binding the AP-1 TRE, c-jun TRE,
and c-fos SRE DNA sequence motifs, age-related reductions in the
activation of AP-1 were accompanied by decreased levels of c-jun TRE
and c-fos SRE binding complexes. Furthermore, the nuclear protein
complexes binding the SRE motif induced in activated T cells of young
and elderly subjects contained serum response factor and Elk-1 pointing
toward age-related defects in the activation of transcriptional
regulatory proteins distinct from c-jun/AP-1. These results suggest
that underlying aberrancies in the induction of c-fos/c-jun as well as
their nuclear regulatory proteins may contribute to the age-related
impairments of AP-1 activation in human T cells.

PMID: 9015187 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

There were posters on this NG not long ago who talked of "Tregs" being
the causative factor, but what they did not consider is that the
"Tregs" just don’t "go bad" for no reason – particular stressors are
the underlying cause.

previously unknown arrangement

Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker

    LONDON (Agence France-Presse) – Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s
shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to renowned banker
Jacob Rothschild, under a deal they concluded prior to Mr.
Khodorkovsky’s arrest, the Sunday Times reported.
    Voting rights to the shares passed to Mr. Rothschild, 67, under a
"previously unknown arrangement" designed to take effect in the event
that Mr. Khodorkovsky could no longer "act as a beneficiary" of the
shares, it said.
    Mr. Khodorkovsky, 40, whom Russian authorities arrested at gunpoint

and jailed pending further investigation last week, was said by the
Sunday Times to have made the arrangement with Mr. Rothschild when he
realized he was facing arrest.
    Mr. Rothschild now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos
worth almost $13.5 billion, the newspaper said in a dispatch from
Moscow.
    Mr. Khodorkovsky owns 4 percent of Yukos directly and 22 percent
through a trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, according to
Russian analysts.
    From the figures reported in the Sunday Times, it appeared Mr.
Rothschild had received control of all Mr. Khodorkovsky’s shares.
    The two have known each other for years "through their mutual love
of the arts" and their positions as directors of the Open Russia
Foundation, Yukos’ philanthropic branch, it said.
    Russian authorities Thursday froze billions of dollars of shares
held by Mr. Khodorkovsky and his top lieutenants in Yukos – throwing
control of the country’s largest oil company into limbo and causing
frenzied selling on financial markets.
    Russian prosecutors said owners of the shares are still entitled to

dividends and retain voting rights, but can no longer sell their
stakes.
    They said the freeze was necessary as collateral for the $1 billion

that Mr. Khodorkovsky and his associates are accused of
misappropriating during the 1990s.
    Mr. Rothschild is the British head of Europe’s wealthy and
influential Rothschild family, and runs his own investment empire.

http://groups.msn.com/psycologicalwarfare

http://www.lufa.ca/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=999

The plan Amschel laid out consisted of several steps, including:

1) Law is force in disguise. Right lies in force ("Might makes Right")
The right to rule lies in force.

2) Political freedom is an idea, not a fact. In order to usurp
political power, all that is necessary is to preach ‘liberalism,’ and
the electorates will give up more and more power to the conspirators.

3) Money is all powerful. Governments are insignificant compared to
money. Since governments control the money, that control must be
removed from governments, and put in the hands of the conspirators.

4) Any and all means to achieve the goal of world domination by the
conspirators is justified.

5) The size, scope, and power of the conspirators’ resources must
remain hidden.

6) Alcohol, drugs, and moral corruption shall be used to weaken the
will of the people.

7) Wars should be instigated and orchestrated so that both sides would
be in their debt (in other words, the conspirators would gain profit
and power, no matter who "won" the wars!).

Propaganda and control of information should be used to influence
opinion.

9) Pre-planned and artificially manipulated financial panics and
depression should be used to tame the people, and weaken governments,
so as to ultimately form a one-world government, with the conspirators
as the rulers.

Amschel had 5 sons, 4 of whom he sent to the major cities of four
different major powers of Europe, to establish or gain control over the

major central bank of each country. Solomon went to Vienna, Austria;
Nathan to London, England; Carl to Naples, Italy; James to Paris,
France; while Meyer (and Amschel) stayed in Frankfurt, Germany. In
addition to these major countries of Germany, Austria, England, Italy
and France, the Rothschilds did extensive banking for the governments
of Belgium, Spain, Brazil, and many other countries. This was all part
of Amschel’s plan to gain control over vast wealth and power.

http://www.lufa.ca/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=999

The rothschilds are manipulating the oil in the same way now

THE END OF THE BEGINNING

Meanwhile, the charter for the Bank of the United States, being for
only 20 years, expired in 1811. At that same time, a great deal of
economic chaos "just happened" to engulf America. In actual fact, it
had been created by the Rothschilds, through tremendous fluctuations in

America’s money supply. This was achieved largely through Nathan
Rothschild, who controlled the Bank of England, which bought
controlling interest in the textile manufacturing plants of the
northern States, while at the same time purchasing huge supplies of
cotton from the southern States. It was then a relatively simple matter

to manipulate both the textile industry (by withholding the raw
material, cotton), and the cotton industry (by withholding cotton to
drive the price up, then dumping huge amounts on the market, to drive
the price down), a standard tactic the Rothschilds have used ever since

to manipulate and control whatever market (including the Stock Market)
which best suits their interests

This manipulation caused wild fluctuations in the prices of both cotton

and textiles (and thus profits and wages), severely effecting the money

supply available to the public, which the small, private bankers could
not keep up with. As a result of this behind-the-scenes manipulation,
which the conspirators falsely attributed to the "normal behavior of
the fickle marketplace," the public clamored for "more stability" in
the banking industry. Thus, Nathan Rothschild upheld Amschel’s (and the

Illuminati’s) plan: to create reasons (problems) to justify creating a
second central bank, so the banking cartel could maintain control.

But it didn’t work, or at least, it was not enough. The bankers needed
a war (their favorite tool), to bring about the creation of the second
Bank of the United States. But as no war was imminent, they did what
they had already done before, and what they have also done on countless

occasions since. They created one! Hence, the War of 1812!

The War of 1812

The war of 1812 was one of the most senseless wars in history (unless
you know the bankers’ plot!) It was supposed fought over impressment of

American sailors into the British navy, to serve in fighting the
French. It is strange that America did not also go to war with the
French, who had been doing the same thing for years, especially since
the practice of impressment by the British had ceased before the war!

The monetary cost of fighting a war created by the bankers, in addition

to the economic trauma of inflation and large boom-bust cycles (caused
by so-called "private banking, even though it was still highly
regulated, government controlled, and monopolized by the banking
conspiracy – just without a central bank) gave significant impetus to
form the second Bank of the United States.

This second bank was almost identical to the first bank, and in no way
did it put an end to the boom-bust cycles. In fact, it made them worse.

In reality, the boom-bust cycles (today called inflation and recession)

were created because there was a lack of real free enterprise banking
with unsubsidized free competition. The ensuing years saw great
economic hardship culminating in the panic of 1819.

These artificially created boom-bust cycles continued for several years

until Andrew Jackson became president in 1828. Jackson was a staunch
opponent to the central bank, and recognized that the second Bank of
the U.S. had already done a great deal of damage to America and her
economy. He also realized that the Bank of the U.S. was merely a tool
used by the international Rothschild/Illuminati conspiracy to gain
complete control over the fledgling nation and destroy it ftom within.
In a valiant attempt to preserve the ideals of freedom and individual
sovereignty on which America was founded, he swore to free the country
from the bankers’ evil, greedy grasp. He wrote:

"is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in
its nature has so little to bind it to our country? [Is there not]
cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the
independence of our country in war? [There can be no doubt that] the
course which would be pursued by a bank almost wholly owned by the
subjects of a foreign power, and managed by those interests, would run
in the same direction Controlling our currency, receiving our public
monies, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence, it would
be more formidable and dangerous than a naval and military power of the

enemy!"

In this statement, Jackson reveals that the Second Bank of the United
States was controlled by a foreign power and that it was a threat to
the sovereignty of the U.S. This is a significant piece of evidence
supporting a conspiracy at that time. Ultimately, the issue of the
central bank became so volatile that Jackson based his entire
re-election campaign on the bank. His campaign slogan was: "Jackson and

no bank, or bank and no Jackson."

Unfortunately, the head of the bank at that time, Nicholas Biddle, had
gained control over most of the Congress by lining the pockets of the
Congressmen! Congressman John Randolph from Virginia noted the
corruption: "Every man you meet in this House [of Representatives] or
out of it, with some rare exceptions, which only serve to prove the
rule, is either a stockholder, president, cashier, clerk, or
doorkeeper, runner, engraver, paper-maker, or mechanic in some other
way to the Bank!"

As a result of Jackson’s views (and the fact that so much of Congress
had been bribed or "bought off"), Jackson was censured by the Senate.
An attempt on Jackson’s life was also made in 1835, but both of the
would-be assassin’s pistols misfired, leaving Jackson unharmed! The
assassin, Richard Lawrence, was later found not guilty on grounds of
insanity. Lawrence later claimed that he had been "in touch with the
powers of Europe," which promised to intervene if any attempt was made
to punish him.

In 1836, soon after the attempt on his life, Jackson said to the
bankers, "You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out, and by the

Eternal God, I will rout you out! If the people only understood the
rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a
revolution before morning!"

Ultimately, Jackson won, and the charter for the second Bank of the
United States expired without renewal in 1836. This victory was not
without its price, however. Biddle, the head of the bank, in a last
ditch grab for power, drastically curtailed the money supply, causing
severe deflation. This was made even worse by the Bank of England, as
historian Henry Clews explains: "The Panic of 1837 was aggravated by
the Bank of England when it – in one day – called in all the paper
[currency] connected with the United States."

As a result, there was continuing economic disruption right up until
the Civil War. This was due largely to interference by the
international banking cartel, headed by the Rothschilds, who continued
to create boom-bust cycles through their vast monetary influence By
now, you should begin to understand that the international banking
cartel would (and still will) do anything to gain power.

In fact, by 1848 the conspiracy was cohesive enough, powerful enough,
and with sufficient reach, to have brought on the various revolutions
and uprisings of that year almost simultaneously in several countries!

At the same time, a radical action-arm of the conspiracy, know as the
communist movement, came out more or less openly on the scene, with an
announcement of its existence, its methods, and its purposes. This was
done through the publication in 1848 of "The Communist Manifesto,"
through a group of conspirators known as "the League of Just Men."

71ey commissioned a young intellectual named Karl Marx to prepare a
summary of the strategy, tactics, principles, and aims of the newly
emerging "communist movement." Marx prepared this summary with the help

of a wealthy fellow revolutionary and close friend, Frederick Engles.
Contrary to the impression that has been so carefully created since,
there was almost nothing original on the part of Marx and Engles in
"The Communist Manifesto." In fact, their names did not even appear on
any copy of the manifesto when it first came out, nor for at least 20
years thereafter! In reality, the Communist Manifesto was simply a
thinly disguised version of "the Rothschild plan" of achieving world
domination! It – along with the numerous revolutions and insurrections
of 1848 – marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the
conspiracy, that of the overt manipulation of governments, and the
orchestration of events – both of which were to serve the conspiracy’s
goals of world domination.

The Civil War

"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and
finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or
die by suicide." – Abraham Lincoln

There is a common belief (promoted by the conspiracy-owned media, and
the conspiracy-owned major publishing houses as we will discuss in
another section) that the Civil War was fought over slavery. It is true

that slavery played a role in the Civil War, but the false presumption
that slavery caused the war is just another example of the
international conspirators using "the plight of the down-trodden
masses" to achieve their goals – just as they did with the
establishment of the Communist Regime (also covered later in this
report)!

The actual truth is that the Civil War "broke out" after much
meticulous planning and subterfuge, to achieve the conspirators’ goal
of re-establishing a central bank in the United States! Numerous
previous attempts, using bribery and coercion of Congress, had failed.
This left the conspirators no choice but to resort to the
tried-and-true Illuminati/Rothschild doctrine of "pitting one side
against the …

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I have a friend who is undergoing therapy with interleukin-2. The side
effects of depression and fatigue are particularly nasty. He is on SSRIs and
has tried "alternative" ways of mood improvement such as narcotics and
stimulants out of desperation. Nothing works. Has anyone found ways to
lessen the mood lowering effect of this treatment, or is stopping it the
only way?

kqurty…@gmail.com wrote:
> How accurate are the results if negative? Thanks

You should be tested at 3 months’ post exposure, and then again at 6
months.  That will catch the overwhelming majority of positives.

If you really wish to be compulsive, you can get tested another six
months after that (1 year post exposure).

What you need to think about is what you were you doing, why you were
doing it and how you can avoid doing it again.  One way is to remember
how you feel at the moment.

B/

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Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To ‘Cull’ The Surplus
Population

 Printed in The American Almanac, August 25, 1997.

His Royal Virus

Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly
virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

Prince Philip, in his Foreward to If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom,
Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal
whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of
extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose
population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist…. I must
confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly
deadly virus.

Press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on the
occasion of the “Caring for Creation” conference of the North
American Conference on Religion and Ecology, May 18, 1990.

It is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called
pagan religions, such as that of the American Indians, the Polynesians,
and the Australian Aborigines, was a great deal more realistic in terms
of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic
philosophies of the revealed religions.

Address on Receiving Honorary Degree from the University of Western
Ontario, Canada, July 1, 1983.

For example, the World Health Organization Project, designed to
eradicate malaria from Sri Lanka in the postwar years, achieved its
purpose. But the problem today is that Sri Lanka must feed three times
as many mouths, find three times as many jobs, provide three times the
housing, energy, schools, hospitals and land for settlement in order to
maintain the same standards. Little wonder the natural environment and
wildlife in Sri Lanka has suffered. The fact [is] … that the
best-intentioned aid programs are at least partially responsible for
the problems.

Preface to Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988,
p.|8.

I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a
boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game
animals and the need to adjust the “cull” to the size of the surplus
population.

Lecture to the European Council of International Schools. Montreaux,
Switzerland, Nov. 14, 1986.

The great difficulty about “life” is that we humans are part of it,
and it is therefore almost impossible to study objectively…. It
therefore tends to be anthropocentric and gives scant attention to the
welfare of all the other life-forms which share this planet with us.

…|When the Bible says that man shall have “dominion” over God’s
creation, the choice is between understanding dominion as in “having
power over,” or dominion as “having responsibility for.”

————————————————————————— —–

Don’t Interfere with the Balance of Nature

Once you have interfered with the balance of nature it becomes
necessary to maintain the balance by artificial means. This means that
some animals have to be killed in the interest of maintaining the
health and viability of the species as a whole as well as the benefit
of other more vulnerable species. Unfortunately there are many people
who object to that sort of thing.
Ecology is not concerned with the fate of individual animals. It
accepts the concept of the exploitation of surplus natural resources
because that is in the way the natural system works, but it must always
be done on the principle of maintaining a sustainable yield…. The
inexorable rule of nature is that if you mess up your environment you
will have to pay a heavy price sooner or later…. Just look around the
globe today and you cannot fail to notice areas which at one time
supported highly successful and civilized populations are either
deserts or they have reverted to jungle. The reason is quite simple:
they over-exploited their natural resources and they paid the price. It
is naive to think that we can escape the same fate for very much
longer. We are only managing to put off the evil hour by frantically
digging up and using mineral resources that can never be renewed. As if
that were not enough, we are polluting the atmosphere, the land and the
waters with every kind of noxious substance. The “greenhouse effect”
alone could well have devastating consequences for all life on earth.

This is a reflection of the duality of man’s brain. The left brain
produces the reasonable answers after objective scientific research,
while the right brain prefers the acceptable and the emotionally
satisfactory answers. How often do people say, “That may be so, but I
prefer to `believe’ or I like to believe … this, that or the other”?

The duality of the brain has created great problems for modern man….
It is … significant that successful engineering makes money. This is
in stark contrast to the supernatural, whether it is religious or
mythological. In the latter cases the truth may be equally certain, but
it is not verifiable, and the outcome of following rules is seldom
predictable. It is, of course, possible to exploit magic and mythology
commercially, but it could hardly be described as a manufacturing
industry….

There is an understandable public pressure for schools and colleges to
concentrate on utilitarian subjects to the exclusion of cultural and
aesthetic development. In other words, the development of the left
brain is given a great deal more attention than that of the right
brain…. The trouble is that neglect of the development of the right
brain leaves it in a state of vacuum…. This means that the right
brain is ready to absorb the first plausible ideas it happens across.
The occult, obscure religious rites, parapsychology, astrology and
similar attractive but irrational notions are sucked into the vacant
space without any discrimination or critical faculty…. I also suspect
that the use of drugs might be seen as a substitute, or short cut, to
filling the vacuum of the right brain….

I mention all this because man’s attitude to nature is partly a
function of the left brain and partly a function of the right brain. It
is easy enough to encourage an emotional concern for nature and the
living world…. Everyone can comprehend the idea of cruelty, very few
can comprehend the extinction of a species.

————————————————————————— —–

"Conflict Between Instinct and Reason"

Fawley Foundation Lecture. Southampton University, Nov. 24, 1967.

The conflict between instinct and reason has reached a critical stage
in man’s affairs, largely because the explosion of facts has revealed
the instincts for what they are and at the same time it has undermined
traditional philosophies and ideologies. The explosion of facts has
effectively altered mankind’s physical and intellectual environment and
when any environment changes, the process of natural selection is
brutal and merciless. “Adapt or die” is as true today as it was in
the beginning.

Introduction to “Exploitation of the Natural System” section of Down
to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.

It took about three and a half billion years for life on earth to reach
the state of complexity and diversity that our ancestors knew as
recently as 200 years ago. It has only taken industrial and scientific
man those 200 years to put at risk the whole of the world’s natural
system. It has been estimated that by the year 2000, some 300,000
species of plants and animals will have become extinct, and that the
natural economy, upon which all life depends, will have been seriously
disrupted.

The paradox is that this will have been achieved with the best possible
intentions. The human population must be properly fed, human life must
be preserved and human existence must be made safer and more
comfortable. All these things are obviously highly desirable, but if
their achievement means putting the survival of future generations at
risk, then there is a pressing obligation on present generations to
apply some measure of self-restraint.

Address to Edinburgh University Union, Nov. 24 1969.

We talk about over- and underdeveloped countries; I think a more exact
division might be between underdeveloped and overpopulated. The more
people there are, the more industry and more waste and the more sewage
there is, and therefore the more pollution.

The Fairfield Osborne Lecture, New York, Oct. 1 1980.

If the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is
as certain as anything can be that the situation will become
increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can be
controlled, and even reversed; but it demands cooperation on a scale
and intensity beyond anything achieved so far.

I realize that there are vital causes to be fought for, and I
sympathize with people who work up a passionate concern about the all
too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness; but behind
all this hangs a deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and
unrecognized, the process of destroying our natural environment is
gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with the challenge,
the other problems will pale into insignificance.

Introduction to “The Population Factor” section of Down to Earth by
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.

What has been described as the “balance of nature” is simply nature’s
system of self-limitation. Fertility and breeding success create the
surpluses after allowing for the replacement of the losses. Predation,
climatic variation, disease, starvation–and in the case of the
inappropriately named Homo sapiens, wars and terrorism–are the
principal means by which population numbers are kept under some sort of
control.

Viewed dispassionately, it must be obvious that the world’s human
population has grown to such a size that it is threatening its own
habitat; and it has already succeeded in causing the extinction of
large numbers of wild plant and animal species. Some have simply been
killed off. Others have quietly disappeared, as their habitats have
been taken over or disturbed by human activities.

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Humans are the Greatest Threat to Survival

Interview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People Dec. 21,
1981 titled “Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as
Overpopulation.”

Q: What do you consider the leading threat to the environment?

A: Human population growth is probably the single most serious
long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t
curbed–not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The
more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more
pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no
option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled
involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

Address to the Joint Meeting of the All-Party Group on Population and
Development and the All-Party Conservation Committee in London, March
11, 1987.

I do believe … that human population pressure–the sheer number of
people on this planet–is the single most important cause of the
degradation of the natural environment, of the progressive extinction
of wild species of plants and animals, and of the destabilization of
the world’s climatic and atmospheric systems.

The simple fact is that the human population of the world is consuming
natural renewable resources faster than it can regenerate, and the
process of exploitation is causing even further damage. If this is
already happening with a population of 4 billion, I ask you to imagine
what things will be like when the population reaches six and then 10
billion…. All this has been made possible by the industrial
revolution and the scientific explosion and it is spread around the
world by the new economic religion of development.

Address at the Salford University Degree Ceremony, July 16, 1973.

There may be disagreements about the time scale, but in principle there
can be little doubt that the population cannot go on increasing
indefinitely. Resources presently being used will not last for ever and
pollution in its broadest sense, unless severely checked, is bound to
increase with population and industrial activity.

Address to All-Party Conservation Committee in London, Feb. 18, 1981.

I suspect that the single most important gift of progress to
conservation has been the development of human contraception
techniques.

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The survival of the "most important"

Interview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People
magazine, Dec. 21, 1981 titled “Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip,
But Not as Much as Overpopulation.

Q: Is birth control part of the solution?

A: Yes, but you can’t legislate these problems away. You’ve got to get
people to understand the need for it: the more important people, the
ones who have responsibilities have got to do it because they’re at the
receiving end. They’ve got to accept the measures.

The Chancellor’s Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.

As long ago as 1798, Malthus explained what happens when the factors
limiting the increase in any population are removed. One of the factors
noticed by Darwin was that all species are capable of producing vastly
greater populations than can be sustained by existing resources;
populations did not increase at the rate at which they are capable was
the basis for his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

The relevance to natural selection of this capacity for overproduction
is that as each individual is slightly different to all the others it
is probable that under natural conditions those individuals which
happen to be best adapted to the prevailing circumstances have a better
chance of survival. Well, so what? Well, take a look at the figures for
the human population of this world. One hundred fifty years ago it
stood at about 1,000 million or in common parlance today, 1 billion. It
then took about a 100 years to double to 2 billion. It took 30 years to
add the third billion and 15 years to reach today’s total of 4.4
billion. With a present world average rate of growth of 1.8%, the total
population by the year 2000 will have increased to an estimated 6
billion and in that and in subsequent years 100 million people will be
added to the world population each year. In fact it could be as much as
16 billion by 2045. As a consequence the demand on resources of land
alone will mean a third less farm land available and the destruction of
half of the present area of productive tropical forest. Bearing in mind
the constant reduction of non-renewable resources, there is a strong
possibility of growing scarcity and reduction of standards. More people
consume more resources. It is as simple as that; and transferring
resources and standards from the richer to the poorer countries can
only have a marginal effect in the face of this massive increase in the
world population.

Speech at the Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust Dinner in London, Dec. 14
1983.

So long as they [birth control methods] … remained taboo subjects the
chances of making any impression on the human population explosion were
that much more remote.

In the introduction to the IUCN Red Data Books which list all animals
and plants under threat of extinction, it says that virtually
everywhere the major threat to a wild species is loss of habitat to a
rapidly increasing human population requiring more space in order to
build villages and cities and grow more food. But starvation and
poverty cannot be eradicated solely by increased food and resources at
the expense of what remains of the natural world. Any increase in the
provision of food and resources must be accompanied by a drastic
reduction in the rate of increase in the human population.

Address on Receiving Honorary Degree from the University of Western
Ontario, Canada, July 1, 1983.

The industrial revolution sparked the scientific revolution and brought
in its wake better public hygiene, better medical care and yet more
efficient agriculture. The consequence was a population explosion which
still continues today.

The sad fact is that, instead of the same number of people being very
much better off, more than twice as many people are just as badly off
as they were before. Unfortunately all this well-intentioned
development has resulted in an ecological disaster of immense
proportions.

The Chancellor’s Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.

The object of the WWF is to “conserve” the system as a whole; not to
prevent the killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned
about their conservation of nature accept that all species are prey to
some other species. They accept that most species produce a surplus
that is capable of being culled without in any way threatening the
survival of the species as a whole.

A Question of Balance by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Michael
Russel (Publishing) Ltd., 1982.

It is curious how many philosophers from Plato to Keynes’ time have
believed in and advocated the control of society by “philosopher
kings.” According to Plato, “its kings must be those who have shown
the greatest ability in philosophy,” but–realistically–he added,
“and the greatest aptitude for war.” Such people may exist in the
imagination and occasionally someone with the necessary qualities may
briefly dominate the stage of history, but it is a naive appreciation
of human nature to imagine that such processed paragons can be invested
with the necessary powers and not be tempted to take advantage of their
situation.