Primed for Extinction

There's something eerie about the way nature programs increasingly talk of humans as if we're some kind of pest. I've just listened in on one such program, narrated by the famous Malthusian misanthrope, David Attenborough. The man really does love mother Earth. However, humankind is destroying this wonderful world, and there's no solution in sight. This depressing message is narrated in Attenborough's kind and grandfatherly voice, and we're left with a feeling that we shouldn't lament the death of large number of people. When such catastrophes happen, they're for the greater good of our planet and whatever remaining population that manages to survive.

But why is this message repeated ad nauseum, and why is there now such a hurry to ramp up this rhetoric?

One reason might be that something big has been planned for us. There's going to be a lot of dead bodies and the hope is that this will happen without any large scale protests. If people are properly primed for the extinction event, there may be no blowback for the planners. People will accept their sad lot as something that's for the better for everybody, and in particular for mother Earth.

Depression is known to have this effect on people. It makes victims long for non-existence. If sufficiently many people are told sufficiently depressing stories over a sufficiently long time, they may simply lie down and die without a fight or any sense of wrong doing if they by accident were to inject themselves with some death serum, and that would be the ideal way to reduce the world population the Malthusian way.

David Attenborough

By John Cairns - The Bodleian Libraries, CC BY 4.0, Link