Death Quotes
Patricia MacCormack: On the Only Solution for Climate Change
The only solution for climate change is letting the human race become extinct. — Patricia MacCormack, professor, Anglia Ruskin University and author of The Ahuman Manifesto Do you agree? Are you ready to sacrifice yourself for the earth? Ending the human race is “not about our death so much as it’s about celebrating the tools […]
Michael Crichton’s Rule
Novelist Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, Westworld, Sphere, and other novels, once observed that “Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible.” Here is the Crichton Conundrum: If people are against something, then any theory is correct that […]
Jane Fonda: On the Climate Change Catastrophe
It’s only going to get worse as climate gets worse and more and more people are harmed. We have 11 years to avoid catastrophe, and we can’t do it unless people mobilize by the millions in the streets. — Jane Fonda, actress Death by Design by John Graves is a dystopian thriller featuring an elite […]
James Lovelock: Human Population Affected by Climate Change
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock, author, Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet! (book published in 1991; it’s now 2020 and the breeding pairs are all over the world and doing well) Death by Design […]
New York Times: On the Coming Famines
While there have always been famines and warnings of famine, food experts generally agree that the situation now is substantially different. The problem is becoming so acute that every nation, institution, and every human being will ultimately be affected. — New York Times, 1969, on writing about food shortages due to population growth These food […]
Environmental Fund: The World Will Be Ruined by 2000
The world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000. … World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping growth of population. — Environmental Fund open letter (1975) The world’s population has doubled since 1975, and yet the average person is better fed now in 2019 than in 1975. Another […]
Prince Philip of England: On Killer Viruses
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. — Prince Philip of England Death by Design by John Graves shows how a manufactured virus could decimate the Earth’s population. Death by Design by John Graves is a dystopian thriller that reveals how […]
The Nature of the Bioterrorism Threat
Unfortunately the nature of the bioterrorism threat makes determining the risk difficult. The presence of an intelligent adversary who can adapt to successful countermeasures complicates standard assessment techniques. – Congressional Research Service, 2011 Death by Design by John Graves is a dystopian novel that showcases how difficult it will be to determine the risk of […]
New York Times on the Coming Ice Age
An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. — New York Times, 1978 (just 10 years before global warming became the received wisdom from the same mainstream media) Death […]