By James Murphy
In remarks delivered on Friday at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Vice President Kamala Harris suggested that one of the ways we can address climate change is to “reduce population.” The White House has since come to the vice president’s defense, claiming that what Ms. Harris intended to say was “pollution,” not population.
Harris, who has a long history of verbal gaffes, was discussing greenhouse gas emissions, which climate alarmists tell us are leading to out-of-control global warming.
“And so, we set an ambitious goal to cut our greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The investment we are announcing today will help us to achieve these goals, and it will do so much more, because think also about the impact on not only the local economy, not only on an investment in the entrepreneurs and innovators from and in the community. Think about the impact on something like public health,” Harris said.
She went on: “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.”
In publishing a transcript of the speech, the White House came to the vice president’s rescue, crossing out the word “population” and inserting the word “pollution,” as if Harris simply misspoke. The vice president, after all, has a long history of speaking in nonsense phrases.
Mistake or not, some in Washington sought an explanation for the gaffe — if that’s what it was. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted a brief video of the speech and asked, “Are you the population she wants to reduce?”
Or, as Dr. Matthew Wielicki posited, Harris may have erred in saying what she and other globalists truly believe: “She said the [quiet] part out loud.”
Journalist Benny Johnson brought Mr. Biden into the controversy: “On the same day that Kamala Harris says we need to ‘reduce the population’ Joe Biden starts eating babies on camera.”
We all know full well that Vice President Harris is not eloquent, and perhaps she simply misspoke. But perhaps, in this case, her remark could be interpreted more along the lines of a Freudian slip than anything else.
Population control, after all, has been on globalist minds for a while now. For instance, recall Al Gore’s remarks regarding “fertility management” at the World Economic Forum in 2014.
“Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available — so women can choose how many children and the spacing of children — is crucial to the future shape of human civilization,” Gore said. “Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century. More than China and India combined by the end of the century. And this is one of the causal factors that must be addressed.”
It’s clear that the climate cult would like to see fewer people on the Earth going forward. So, the question must be asked: Was Harris’ “reduce population” remark a gaffe — or was it a wish?
While her remark grabbed all the headlines, Vice President Harris also engaged in the typical unfounded climate hysteria that has become one of the calling cards of the Biden administration.
“So, every day, all across our nation, we feel and see the impact of the climate crisis. I mean, if you watch the morning news, it will be the lead story. It’s been every day for the last couple of weeks. It is the lead story. I think we finally, at least in our progress, come to the point that most people can no longer deny it because it is so obvious,” Harris explained.
“It is clear that the clock is not only ticking, it is banging. And we must act,” Harris exclaimed.
Harris may have just committed another in a long line of verbal gaffes that both she and her boss Joe Biden are famous for. But even if she simply misspoke, her remark sheds light on the truly Malthusian nature of climate-change politics. The climate cult is doing everything in their power to end mankind’s flourishing. How long will it be until mankind itself must be reduced in order to cure the supposed ills of the climate?
James Murphy is a freelance journalist who writes on a variety of subjects with a primary focus on the ongoing anthropogenic climate-change hoax and cultural issues. He can be reached at jcmurphyABR@mail.com
Reprinted with permission from The New American
