Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future

by James Delingpole

  Page 150 ‘And The Ecologist was with him all the way’ – see: The Ecologist, 1(1): 3–5. Available at: http://exacteditions.theecologist.org/exact/browsePages.do?issue=5337&size=3&pageLabel=3 [Accessed 23 January 2011].

  Page 151 ‘In his December 1942 decree ‘On the Treatment of the Land in the Eastern Territories’, ‘– Bruggemeier, F-J., Cioc, M., & Zeller, T., eds. (2005), How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press).

  Page 152 ‘the essay collection How Green Were the Nazis?’ – ibid.

  Page 153 ‘its instincts remained little changed – just look at books like Harrison Brown’s’ – Brown, H., (1954), The Challenge of Man’s Future, (Secker & Warburg), p. 260.

  Page 153 ‘Thus we could sterilise or in other ways discourage the mating of the feeble-minded.’ – ibid., pp. 104–5.

  Page 154 ‘At this point the reader is probably saying to himself…’ – ibid., p. 221.

  Page 155 ‘…Holdren was arguing for similar policies in a book he wrote in 1977…’ – Holdren, J., Ehrlich, A. & Ehrlich, P. (1977), Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. Available at: http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/#white_house_statement [Accessed 23 January 2011].

  Page 155 ‘This Planetary Regime – perhaps run under the auspice of ‘UNEP and the United Nations population agencies’’ – ibid., pp. 942–3.

  Page 155 ‘an armed international organization’ – ibid., p. 917.

  Chapter Eight: Welcome to the New World Order

  Page 157 ‘It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies…’ – Lewis, C., S., (1998), God in the Dock (Fount)

  Page 157 ‘Evil men don’t get up in the morning saying’ – (personal communication with Christopher Booker)

  Page 157 ‘Or, as Aurelio Peccei once put it…’ Peccei, A., – (1969) The Chasm Ahead (New York: MacMillan Press).

  Page 159 ‘The catalyst was the Club of Rome’s first publication, a seminal 1972 book called Limits to Growth.’ – Meadows, D.H. et al. (1972), Limits to Growth: A Report on the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind, (London: Earth Island).

  Page 160 ‘Among these was John Maddox, editor of Nature, who in the same year, 1972, published a counterblast…’ – Maddox, J., (1972), The Doomsday Syndrome, (London: Macmillan).

  Page 161 ‘Here is the most infamous Club of Rome statement’ – Schneider, B., & King, A., (1993), The First Global Revolution, (Orient Longman). Available at: http://www.archive.org/details/TheFirstGlobalRevolution [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 163 ‘That evening the group was invited to Gvishiani’s suite in the Imperial Hotel in Vienna. He served his favourite fruit vodka’ – Whitehead, J., R., (1999), Memoirs of a Boffin, (Sutton Publishing). Available at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/drrennie/chap13.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 163 ‘[The Club of Rome] provided the climate in which new ideas were generated…’ – ibid.

  Page 164 ‘Probably the best analysis of the Club of Rome’s tangible effects on global environmental policy come courtesy of a website called The Green Agenda.’ Available at: http://www.green-agenda.com/globalrevolution.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 164 ‘Here, for example, is the Club of Rome’s Master Plan…’ – Mesarovic, M., & Pestel, E., (1975), Mankind at the Turning Point: The Second Report to the Club of Rome (London: Hutchinson).

  Page 166 ‘As the Green Agenda website puts it…’ – available at: http://www.green-agenda.com/sustainabledevelopment.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 166 ‘This was certainly the context in which Maurice Strong used the’s’ word’ – Strong, M., (1991), ‘The relationship between demographic trends, economic growth, unsustainable consumption patterns and environmental degradation,’ UNCED PrepCom report, August 1991. Quoted by GreenTrack International, Report 26, 15 August 1991, Libertytown, MD, p. 3.

  Page 167 ‘As he once put it: ‘Our concept of ballot-box democracy may need’…’ – quoted in Foster, P. (2009), ‘Chairman Mo’s Little Red Website’, National Post, November 12. Available at: http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/

  archive/2009/11/12/peter-foster-chairman-mo-s-

  little-red-website.aspx#ixzz0poICk00J [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 168 ‘Sustainable global development requires that those who are more affluent…’ – see ‘Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World’, UN Documents. Available at: http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-ov.htm [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 168 ‘We do not pretend that the process is easy or straightforward…’ – ibid.

  Page 169 ‘1.1 Humanity stands at a defining moment in history…’ – see ‘Agenda 21, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Division for Sustainable Development). Available at: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_00.shtml [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 169 ‘The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations’ – as quoted by Raeburn, Paul (1992), ‘Ecology Remedy Costly’, Associated Press, March 12.

  Page 172 ‘To give you a rough idea of the UN’s spread…’ UNEP Evaluation and Oversight Unit (2004), ‘Study of the Environmental Management Group.’ See also: Russell, G., (2009), ‘UN Says its Own Eco-Management Out of Control’, Fox News, February 24. Available at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499244,00.html. See also: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/

  pdf/022409_JIU_Environment_Report.pdf [Accessed 13 April 2011].

  Page 172 ‘This becomes clear in a 1998 UN discussion document’ – Lawrence, G., (1998) The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium, available at: http://www.unedforum.org/publications/millennium/mill%20paper2.pdf

  Page 173 ‘That phrase ‘smart growth’ is a good example. See: Delingpole, J., Telegraph blog post ‘There Is Nothing Smart About Rationing Electricity’. Available at: (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/

  news/jamesdelingpole/100078707/there-is-nothing-smart-about-rationing-electricity/)

  Page 176 ‘In an article for the website “Big Government”’ – James Simpson (2011), Available at: http://biggovernment.com/jmsimpson/2011/01/

  23/agenda-21-part-ii-globalist-totalitarian-

  dictatorship-invading-a-town-near-you-

  with-your-permission/ [Accessed 13 April 2011].

  Page 177 ‘…which enabled Maurice Strong to describe the prospect of billions of environmental deaths as ‘a glimmer of hope.’ – quoted in Foster, P., (2009), ‘Chairman Mo’s Little Red Website’, National Post, November 12. Available at: http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/

  archive/2009/11/12/peter-foster-chairman-mo-s-

  little-red-website.aspx#ixzz0poICk00J [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 178 ‘In 1991, he established the Gorbachev Foundation’ – see ‘The Green Web’, The Green Agenda. Available at: http://green-agenda.com/greenweb. html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 178 ‘Gorby was also responsible, in collaboration with Maurice Strong, for the Earth Charter (2000).’ – see ‘The Earth Charter’, The Earth Charter Initiative. Available at: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 178 ‘This is a collection of principles’ – see ‘Earth Council Alliance’, MauriceStrong.net. Available at: http://www.mauricestrong.net/2009013070/earth-charter.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 179 ‘Principle ten, for example, asks that we ‘Ensure that economic activities and institutions…’ – see ‘The Earth Charter’, The Earth Charter Initiative. Available at: http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/pages/Read-the-Charter.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 179 ‘One of the worst of the new dangers is ecological’ – quotation from 46th John Findley Greed Foundation Lecture; Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri; 6 May 1992.

  Page 179 ‘Please stand up, delegates of the world, hold each other’s hand an
d let us swear together…’ – Muller, R., ‘The Absolute, Urgent Need for Proper Earth Government’, Good Morning World. Available at: http://www.goodmorningworld.org/earthgov/ [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 180 ‘Besides the Earth Charter, the Ark contains over 1,000 ‘Temenos Books’, Ark of Hope. Available at: http://www.arkofhope.org/index.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 181 ‘MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000’ – see ‘Let These Be Guidestones to an Age of Reason’. Available at: http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Message.htm [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 181 ‘BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH’ says one.’ – ibid.

  Page 181 ‘A total world population of 250–300 million people, a 95 per cent decline from present levels, would be ideal.’ – Ted Turner interview, Audubon Magazine, 1996. As quoted by AIM: http://www.aim.org/wls/five-percent-of-the-present-population-would-be-ideal/ [Accessed 13 April 2011]

  Page 181 ‘…the Duke of Edinburgh, who – in a foreword to a book called If I Were an Animal – once wrote…’ – Prince Philip (1986), foreword to If I Were an Animal, (UK: Robin Clark Ltd.).

  Page 181 ‘In his memoirs, King confided somewhat chillingly: ‘My chief quarrel with DDT’ – The Discipline of Curiosity (1990) Elsevier: Burlington, MA. P.43. as cited in Bethell, T. (2008) The Politically Correct Guide to Science (Regnery), p.76.

  Page 182 ‘I quite like the definition offered by (green MSM opinion former) David Aaronovitch – Aaronovitch, D., (2010) Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History (Vintage).

  Page 184 ‘…John Holdren calling for ‘de-development’…’ – Ballasy, N., (2010), ‘White House Science Czar Says He Would Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop the United States’, CNS News, 16 September. Available at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75388 [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 184 ‘… ‘We have only 100 months left to save the world from Climate Change’’ – see Alderson, A., (2009), ‘Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world’, Telegraph Online, March 7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/

  theroyalfamily/4952918/Prince-Charles-we-

  have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Page 184 ‘his biofuel-powered royal train to tour Britain’ – see Booth, R., (2010), ‘Prince Charles embarks on lavish train trip to spread green message’, Guardian Online, September 6. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/06/prince-charles-green-train-campaign [Accessed 24 January 2011].

  Chapter Nine: Malthus & Co.

  Page 187 ‘The enormous amount of coal required…’ – Lord Kelvin (1902) ‘Windmills Must Be the Future Source of Power’, Philadelphia North American, May 18. Available at: http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/windmills_future_power.html

  Page 188 ‘We all think we know about what happened at Easter Island’ – Diamond, J., (2006), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, (London: Penguin Books).

  Page 188 ‘Malthus observed the ‘constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it’’ – Malthus, T., (1826), An Essay on the Principle of Population, Sixth Edition, Book 1, Chapter 1, page 3. (London: Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.).

  Page 189 ‘Britain’s population swelled more than four-fold – while between 1780 and 1914, her economy grew thirteen times larger.’– Population figures: Between 1781–90 and 1905–13, Great Britain’s population grew around 4.3 times in size, from 9,369,000 to 40,062,000. Economic growth measured as ‘commodity output’ – between 1781–90 and 1905–13, Great Britain’s commodity output grew around 13.3 times in size. O’Brien, P., & Keyder, C., Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780–1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century, (1978, London: Allen & Unwin), p. 58.

  Page 189 ‘Among the first to take up his noble cause of cussed pessimism against all objective evidence was one Harrison Brown’– Brown, H., (1954), The Challenge of Man’s Future, (Secker & Warburg).

  Page 190 ‘the average human being now earns nearly three times as much money…’– Ridley, M., (2010), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, (GB: Fourth Estate), p. 14.

  Page 190 ‘Our teeming population is the strongest evidence our numbers are burdensome to the world’– Tertullian (2010), Treatise of the Soul, (Kessinger Publishing).

  Page 191 ‘Ridley offers a delicious example in The Rational Optimist’– Ridley, M., (2010), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, (GB: Fourth Estate). pp.12-13.

  Page 192 ‘Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose any five commodities he liked’– Regis, E., (1997), ‘The Doomslayer’, Wired 5.02. Available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html

  Page 193 ‘This certainly was the experience of one of Simon’s acolytes’– Lomborg, B., (2001), The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, (UK: University of Cambridge Press).

  Page 195 ‘the criticisms of the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty’– see ‘Lomborg celebrates ministry ruling’, BBC New Online, 22 December 2003. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3340305.stm [Accessed 28 January 2011).

  Page 195 ‘Monbiot dismissed Ridley’s arguments’– Monbiot, G., (2010), ‘This state-hating free marketeer ignores his own failed experiment’, Guardian Online, May 31. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/31/state-market-nothern-rock-ridley [Accessed December 28, 2010], Monbiot, G., (2010), ‘Matt Ridley’s Rational Optimist is telling the rich what they want to hear’, Guardian Online, June 18. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/18/matt-ridley-rational-optimist-errors [Accessed 28 December 2010].

  Page 196 ‘You could… fit everyone in the world into the state of Texas’– available at: http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/12/03/the-overpopulation-myth-the-entire-world-population-could-fit-into-the-state-of-texas/. See also Sean Corrigan’s essay, ‘A Long Way From Reaching Our Peak’, available at: http://www.cobdencentre.org/2011/05/a-long-way-from-reaching-our-peak/

  Page 197 ‘Math Lessons for Locavores’– Stephen Budiansky, New York Times, 19 August 2010. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/opinion/20budiansky.html [Accessed 13 April 2011]. See also ‘Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the ‘Food Miles’ Perspective’, Desrochers and Shimuzu (2008). Available at: http://mercatus.org/publication/yes-we-have-no-bananas-critique-food-miles-perspective?id=24612

  Page 198 ‘Simon admitted that he himself had begun life as a ‘card-carrying anti-growth, anti-population zealot’– Regis, E., (1997), ‘The Doomslayer’, Wired 5.02. Available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html [Accessed 28 January 2011].

  Page 199 ‘Simon neatly illustrated this point in a 1996 public debate with Hazel Henderson’ – ibid.

  Page 199 ‘Ecology teaches us that humankind is not the center of life…’– Simon, J., (1996), The Ultimate Resource 2, (USA: Princeton University Press).

  Page 201 ‘In The Population Bomb he airily declared’– Ehrlich, P.R. (1971), The Population Bomb, (Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books).

  Page 202 ‘He never much liked the term ‘Cornucopian’’– Simon, J., (1996), The Ultimate Resource 2, (USA: Princeton University Press).

  Page 202 ‘the advent of shale gas’– For more on the topic, see Ridley, M., (2011) ‘The Shale Gas Shock.’ GWPF Report 2. London: Global Warming Policy Foundation. Available at: http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/Shale-Gas_4_May_11.pdf

  Page 202 ‘Shale gas’ – ‘Shale Gas Find Is Britain’s Golden Opportunity’ Peiser, B., (27 September 2011) [http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/907/shale-gas-find-is-britains-golden-opportunity] [Accessed 1 November 2011]

  Page 203 M King Hubbert ‘a strange, cantankerous but brilliant earth scientist…’– Yergin, D., (2011) The Quest (USA: The Penguin Press)

  Page 204 ‘As early as 1885’– ibid.

  Page 205 ‘Nor is this plenitude likely to end any time soon.’ – ibid.

 
; Page 205 ‘President Warren Harding’s U.S. Coal Commission’– as quoted in Bradley, R., (2008) Capitalism at Work (Scrivener Press.) p. 206.

  Page 206 ‘One cannot disentangle from human members the effects of the human brain and its contents…’– Simon, J., (1996) The Ultimate Resource 2 – ibid.

  Pages 206–207 ‘As Stephen Budiansky puts it’– ‘Sustainable Sentiments’, September 3, 2010. Available at: http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2010/09/sustainable-sentiments.html [Accessed 13 April 2011]

  Chapter Ten: They Don’t Like It Up ’Em

  Page 209 Lindzen, R., (1992) ‘Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus.’ Regulation, Vol.15, No.2, pp.87-98. Available at: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html (Accessed 13 April 2011).

  Page 212 ‘Dr Pachauri’s recent foray into soft-pornographic literature’ – available at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/30/ipcc-now-in-bizzaroland-pachauri-releases-smutty-romance-novel/; ‘Like a sex-crazed poodle’ – available at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/al-gore-crazed-sex-poodle?page=6

  Page 214 ‘resignation letter written by Hal Lewis’– for discussion see Revkin, A., (2010), ‘A Physicist’s Climate Complaints’, October 15. Available at: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/a-physicists-climate-complaints/ [Accessed 13 April 2011]

  Page 214 ‘William Connolley … sought to dismiss him’– available at: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/

  2010/10/im_sure_dr_lewis_

  deserves_some.php [Accessed 13 April 2011]

  Page 216 ‘The ugly nature of the current climate debate…’ Sherwood, S., Physics Today, October 2011 – available at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B3

  Kz9p_7fMvBMzEyNGQzMmEtMzQyZi00ODc5

  LTkwNDMtZGE3NjFiOWQwMDRh&hl=en [Accessed 1 November 2011]