Ted Turner Repeats Call For Population Curb

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Ted Turner Repeats Call For Population Curb Says diminishing farmland will lead to food riots, despite being behind corn-based ethanol push

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, April 28, 2008 |

Billionaire Globalist Ted Turner, who earlier this month predicted that global warming would eventually lead to cannibalism, has repeated his call to curb population growth, claiming that disappearing farmland will cause food riots, despite the fact that Turner himself is behind the push to grow corn-based ethanol, an industry the UN has blamed for food shortages and increased poverty.

“There are a lot of different problems being caused by an ever-increasing number of people in a finite-sized world,” Turner told CNBC’s Bob Pisani. “The resources of the planet just can’t keep up with the demand and I’m afraid this going to be more commonplace. I’m afraid we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. It’s very complicated I do want to say.”

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“We’ve had warnings for a number of years,” Turner said. “Grain stocks have been dropping every year for the last 10 years or pretty close to that – the reserves. And, the environment in so many different areas is being – the pressure being put on it by the ever-increasing number of people and the number of people using more stuff and more energy – that’s what ‘s leading to global climate change and the over-fishing of the oceans," he added.

Turner cited increased vehicle usage as a reason for disappearing farmland.

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“Agriculture is complicated anyway. For instance – China adds more cars, they need more roads and the only place to put more roads in China is over farmland. So you lose farmland as you increase development. We’re doing it even here in the United States.”

However, Turner failed to acknowledge the fact that one of the main reasons behind food shortages is global demand for biofuels, an industry that Turner has vigorously promoted and publicly supported in a 2006 WTO speech.

As the UN warned last year, "The global rush to switch from oil to energy derived from plants will drive deforestation, push small farmers off the land and lead to serious food shortages and increased poverty unless carefully managed".

Earlier this month, Turner caused shockwaves when he stated that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.”

"We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff," adding that "on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it."

Turner himself failed to live up to such a pledge, having fathered five children, but continues to lecture the rest of us on how we should limit our procreation.

Some would find Turner's zeal to "thin" the human population hard to reconcile with his leadership of a UN initiative to combat malaria.

When one considers Turner's past comments about the supposed need to drastically cut world population levels by up to 95%, his involvement in any kind of program run under the guise of "improving health" in third world countries should be examined with severe caution.

"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal," Turner stated in 1996.

As the Baltimore Sun reported, "Most of [Ted Turner's first donation to the United Nations Foundation of] $22 million went to programs that seek to stall population growth."