by proldic » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:01 am
Since 2002 I have been trying to warn people about this guy. Then, people treated me like a kook. Times are different now, though. About the day before I posted the original link on this thread, I sent my young basement-dwelling boarder down to a Heinberg speech wearing a sandwich board that read "Heinberg Supports Eugenics". What a story that was. <br><br>Here he has spent some time cut-and-pasting various people's work to try to form an initial summary of what is going on: <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Richard Heinberg is a Stealth Fascist Who Epitomizes What "Peak Oil" Is All About</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>-Part One-<br><br>Who is Richard Heinberg?<br><br>Richard Heinberg is the author of two very popular books supporting the "Peak Oil" theory, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Party's Over</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> and <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Powerdown</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. Heinberg is an open supporter of massive de-population. He says that de-population will be necessary in the face of a coming oil crash. He currently speaks all around the country to large crowds, usually in politically liberal and leftist areas.<br><br><br>Why is Heinberg Important?<br><br>Richard Heinberg has become one of the primary, if not <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>the</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> primary, supporters of the "Peak Oil" theory in the U.S. today. His views and claims are nearly 100% in line with the views of the other major "Peak Oil" cheerleaders, such as Colin Campbell, Matthew Simmons, Kenneth Deffeyes, Michael Klare, and of course the infamous Michael Ruppert. Heinberg is endorsed by the entirety of this crowd, and, indeed, they and their doomsday prediction of "Peak Oil" are gaining considerable attention these days both in the mainstream media and in political activist circles. "Peak Oil" is gaining a lot of acceptance with relatively little challenge across the western world, despite the fact that there is much disagreement amongst geologists and oil industry analysts, and despite the fact that the "Peak Oil" people have declared "Peak" to be imminent many times before, and have been repeatedly wrong. <br><br>Understanding who Richard Heinberg is sheds great light on understanding what "Peak Oil" is really all about.<br><br><br>Heinberg Supports Mass De-population<br><br>While Heinberg does not endorse a specific eugenics program, per se, he loudly calls for mass de-population. He favorably quotes Russell Hopfenberg and David Pimentel: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> If all people are to be fed adequately and equitably, we must have a gradual transition to a global population of<br>2 billion. A population policy ensuring that each couple produces an average of only 1.5 children would be necessary<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> (<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Party's Over</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, page 226).<br><br>For anyone who sees this belief as possible benign, or does not understand mass de-population as part of the fascist agenda, it does not take many "degrees of separation" to see Heinberg's connection to open eugenics. On page 227 of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Party's Over</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, Heinberg quotes Garret Hardin, an<br>ecologist whom Heinberg endorses in multiple places in his book. Hardin is a famous de-population advocate, who is, tellingly, a grantee of the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund is an aboveground eugenics foundation that funds some of the most egregiously racist scientists in the world. On its web site the Pioneer Fund qualifies: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The fact that the origins of the Pioneer Fund lie in the Darwinian-Galtonian evolutionary tradition, and the eugenics movement has guaranteed us our share of controversy<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> and <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>we have supported behavioral genetic studies which have shown that the genetic component in human behavior is about 50% and, even more controversial, that it is more likely than not that there is a genetic component to between-group (sex, socioeconomic, and racial) IQ differences.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>There is a genetic difference between the rich and the poor,<br>that is what we are to believe, according to the funders of Richard Heinberg's hero Garret Hardin. Far from dismissing the beliefs of the people who pay him, Hardin has based his career on this racist ideology. So, too, has Richard Heinberg.<br>Heinberg's connections only get more extreme.<br><br>One Degree of Separation: Heinberg Supports an Open White Separatist!<br><br>On page 228 of The Party's Over and at the very end of the following interview, <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/220,">www.globalpublicmedia.com...ripts/220,</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> Heinberg<br>endorses Virginia Abernathy, another population reductionist. Most notably, Abernathy's "population reduction" stance fits within the rubric of her *white separatism.* Professor Abernathy writes for Occidental Quarterly (<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Quarterly),">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occ...uarterly),</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> a white<br>supremacist publication. Do alliances with eugenicist and white supremacist types necessarily make Heinberg a bad egg? <br><br>Well, yes.<br><br>But the story doesn't end there. <br><br>Heinberg closely associates with eugenics philosophy and does not disown it, while cloaking his own garb in eco-conservatism. Never supporting social justice or systemic political solutions, or even truly acknowledging the power<br>of the corporate and political ruling class, yet always emphasizing individual and small-scale "save-yourself-from-apocalypse" measures, Heinberg is best understood as an <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>anti-humanist</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. However, he's being taken seriously in academia, and such is the threat of the modern eschatological horror show; now it's going mainstream.<br><br>Heinberg Denies That Clean Alternative Energies Such as Solar and Wind Could Ever Replace Oil In time to Avert Total Societal Collapse<br><br>Richard Heinberg never mentions the long history of oil industry suppression of solar and wind energy, as documented in the book <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Who Owns the Sun</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, of which Publishers Weekly said,<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>(authors) Berman and O'Connor offer a scathing explanation of why solar technology has played such an insignificant role in meeting America's energy needs. Politicians, utility companies and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>even many mainstream environmental groups</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> come under attack for either their lack of leadership on this issue or for their downright hostility to solar possibilities. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The authors argue convincingly that the impediment to widespread adoption of environmentally friendly energy sources is no longer technological but rather the fear that private utility companies' profit margins will suffer.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Numerous examples of the ways in which renewable energy advances have been sabotaged by politicians and utilities are presented, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>as are a wide array of solutions</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. The most interesting solutions include <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>public ownership of utilities,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> enlightened building codes favorable or at least neutral to solar technology, utility company buy-backs of excess electricity generated by homeowners, tax breaks for the installation of non-polluting sources of power, removal of massive governmental subsidies of fossil fuels and equalization of governmental research dollars for renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. Where such reforms are already in place, in the Netherlands and Israel, for example, solar energy is playing a very significant social role. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>This is a book likely to stir people to action</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>Solar and wind power are the most obvious efficient<br>and clean mass-power sources, and their incorporation into widespread usage is practical on both on a technical, humanistic and environmental level. <br><br>Heinberg, though, in <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Party's Over</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, essentially dismisses solar altogether. Regarding wind he says, <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> Just to produce 18 quads of wind power in the U.S. by 2030 would require the installation of something like half a million state-of-the-art turbines, or roughly 20,000 per year starting now. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>That is five times the present world production capacity for turbines. This feat could be accomplished, but it would require a significant reallocation of economic resources.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>One is left wondering why Heinberg is not calling for that allocation of resources- a 5x ramp-up in wind turbine production doesn't seem like much in the big picture, does it?<br>Yet he'd rather drum up Armageddon.<br><br>Heinberg Says No! to Hope<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>When I talk about this stuff to audiences, people immediately say, 'can't you give us some hope'... well I think hope is actually part of the<br>problem.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Heinberg is not the only "Peak Oil" advocate with fascist ideology. Colin Campbell is another. Matthew Simmons is another.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> What is the effect of these people and what they say? Their effect is anti-political. At a time when political action is most needed, at a time of Bush economic attack on the poor, unions being attacked, fascism rising - they are here to say, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>save yourself</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. Which is very nice and all if you're rich. A large base of the potential supporters of a strong movement for progressive change- and those with the economic resources to even be thinking of "saving themselves"- are being derailed into an armageddonist and<br>eugenicist ideology based on pseudo-science. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=proldic@rigorousintuition>proldic</A> at: 11/4/05 7:28 am<br></i>