Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
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Meeting Doctor Doom
Forrest M. Mims III
Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III.
There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: Taxonomically Unique?" 109th Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science Program and Abstracts [ PDF ], Poster P59, p. 84, 2006).
But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka (Fig. 1), the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. The camera operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of the big camera to the ceiling and slowly walked away.
This curious incident came to mind a few minutes later when Professor Pianka began his speech by explaining that the general public is not yet ready to hear what he was about to tell us. Because of many years of experience as a writer and editor, Pianka's strange introduction and the TV camera incident raised a red flag in my mind. Suddenly I forgot that I was a member of the Texas Academy of Science and chairman of its Environmental Science Section. Instead, I grabbed a notepad so I could take on the role of science reporter.
One of Pianka's earliest points was a condemnation of anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a privileged position in the Universe. He told a story about how a neighbor asked him what good the lizards are that he studies. He answered, “What good are you?”
Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, “We're no better than bacteria!”
Pianka then began laying out his concerns about how human overpopulation is ruining the Earth. He presented a doomsday scenario in which he claimed that the sharp increase in human population since the beginning of the industrial age is devastating the planet. He warned that quick steps must be taken to restore the planet before it's too late.
Saving the Earth with Ebola
Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.
Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.
AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.
After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”
With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements now sat silent.
After a dramatic pause, Pianka returned to politics and environmentalism. But he revisited his call for mass death when he reflected on the oil situation.
“And the fossil fuels are running out,” he said, “so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people.” So the oil crisis alone may require eliminating two-third's of the world's population.
How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be saved? Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around when the killer disease goes to work. He was born in 1939, and his lengthy obituary appears on his web site.
When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause.
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
Ah like a game show host to the new world order:
Oh well if you look at how long most people take to die in hospital beds or suffering through poverty and old age wasting away down to that last pitiful beat,or the earth suffocating under our industrial stupidity or the animals being stripped abused experiemented on then killed.
Curtain no #1 ;
Continue the madness
Yea though I walk through  the valley , blah blah blah
Curtain no #2 .
:the Professors fix does sound much more exciting than the slow usual ?
"plus you get all the above and the added bonuses of "......Earths other organisums survive as does your race."
Curtain no #3
A dimential change through a  pole shift so that only love and natual occurances can handle existance within the Earths new frequency.
"Ahh,can I ask the audience? ohh I think I'll just take the money ".
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
he is one of the lizard people, don't trust him.
hmm is ebola transmittable to primates or all mammals?
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
Read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston to learn all about Ebola.
Scary disease, perhaps we could test it on the good doctor first?
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
From a microbiologist
I would like to point out that there is a 100% fatal virus endemic to the
> United States which has a broad host range and infects many animals every
> year. It is called rabies and a young girl recently died of it in
> Washington (MMWR Sept. 1, 1995, Vol. 44, No. 34). No one seems to be
> speculating that rabies is going to mutate to a form transmissable by
> aerosols. Certainly, it is not receiving much press time.
>
> It seems self serving of scientists and journalists alike to prey on
> people's fears to get more grant money or to sell more articles.
> PRedictions and speculations are easy to make but hard to prove.
and I don't think using a work of fiction is a good place to start learning about ebola, might as well say watch 28 days later.
There is a strain that is airborne but with a much lower fatality rate....and of course if something like ebola and the common cold somehow joined forces..
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
Damn Liberal Doomsday bastards!
Just like my Biology professor, she gives these hellfire and brimstone speeches about how the earth is dying and BLAH BLAH BLAH. Yet the world never ends soon enough so I won't have to go back to that horrid class.
These people are die hard evolutionists(nothing wrong with that) but soon as things like GLOBAL WARMING and HOLES IN THE OZONE come up, they totally forget about life's ability to survive in the harshest of conditions.
People just get stuck on Hurricane Katrina....the reason it was so bad is because New Orleans is below sea level all the time, I mean the storm surge alone would fill up the city. Had it happened somewhere else it would have been better.
Also climate change happened before the invention of cars and the use of fossil fuel...we might affect it but we aren't CAUSING it, it would happen anyways.
Missy rabies is controlable, there are shots and treatments for it.
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
Go tell the professor not me.
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
is ecoli or ebola the thing u get from licking dirty ass?
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
dirty ale will give you a very bad case of squits and vomit and you will wish you had ebola. ;)
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Originally Posted by Missy
and I don't think using a work of fiction is a good place to start learning about ebola, might as well say watch 28 days later.
Yeah, I would normally agree, but as a microbiologist you will know that while the story has been fictionalised, the science contained therein is robust. I thought it a good layman's intro to the whole Marberg family!!
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People listen....the way to get rid of the overpopulation problem is castrate the chinese and indians...STOP HAVIN CHILDREN PEOPLE!!!
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
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Originally Posted by Lyle
People listen....the way to get rid of the overpopulation problem is castrate the chinese and indians...STOP HAVIN CHILDREN PEOPLE!!!
the overpopulation problem is way overrated. maldistribution of people and wealth is the culprit.
Re: Professor at the University of Texas advocates killing 90% of population
...wealth distribution solves nothing, let's try this out for size now if everyone has money then what's it worth? NOTHING objects are worth something because there is A) a need for it and B) others don't have it
The problem with the world today is a bunch of pantywaste liberals thinking they can be friends with everyone and strong arm a MAJORITY into servitude for the special intrest groups! That and ever single problem they talk about will "Bring about the end of the world"...they are such fuckin drama queens, get a fucking grip!
