Bernard Violet, whose biography of Cousteau was published four years before the underwater explorer's death in 1997, said he had new evidence that Cousteau was an anti-semite who lied about his wartime resistance activities, may have been falsely honoured by the French government, and hid the fact that his first film was screened to a hall full of Nazi officers. Having developed the diver's watch, IWC offered support to The Cousteau Society. From there, eugenics actually enjoyed a period of mainstream popularity in both Darwin and Galton's native England as well as the U.S. and elsewhere in the late 19th century and early 20th. June 6, 1992 12 AM PT From Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO The explosive growth in population, which is expected to triple to 16 billion in 80 years, is leading to a world where people will be. "Some of his friends have sent me copies of documents and letters he wrote to them. 24, Issue 8, December 23, 1997, p. p. 24, [238] Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Book of Co-Creation Part II The Promise Will Be Kept: The Gospels, The Acts, the Epistles, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, San Rafael, California, 1993 (privately published), p. 120. [249] Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Image Books/Doubleday edition, 1995, ISBN 0-385-47967-0, I talked about this problem with the director of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences. Radical Reformers Advocates of Population Reduction Some prominent reformers and ecologists Jacques Yves Cousteau, Ted Turner, Paul Ehrlich, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Robert Muller, and . Internet document citations are based on research done between September 1997 and January 2000. The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mtres de fond (18 meters deep), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands in Var, with Philippe Tailliez and Frdric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Lon Vche, an engineer of Arts and Measures at the Naval College. (1138) She agrees with Ted Turner on this point; maybe they consulted the same environmental avatar. The Millennium Institute says that the new millennium "must be the moment when humans interchange bad and good, unreal and real, and set themselves and Earth on a new course." [241] Mikhail Gorbachev, Finding Our Way Five Years After the Rio Earth Summit, delivered for Green Cross International on April 15, 1997 in Washington DC; Internet document, NOTE: Internet document citations are based on research done between September 1997 and August 1999. She told those who attended a May 1998 ecological conference that We need to seek the most compassionate way of weeding out people. But far from completing his first film, Eighteen Metres Deep, in 1945 as Cousteau and several flattering French magazine portraits have claimed, the feature was first screened on April 10 1943. In 1993, Jacques Cousteau started a campaign for the office of Mayor of New Orleans. He called for seizure of all illegitimate children from their mothers, forced abortions and sterilizations for unmarried women, mandatory implantation of a reversible infertility drug in all adolescent children, a national two-child policy, and the addition of sterilizing agents to the water supplies of our nation (so long as they did not affect In 1957, Cousteau took over as leader of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. 'The first thing,' said the second, 'is to give freedom to the sexes.' The elect of humanity will survive to enter the New Age. [230] Robert Muller, My Testament to the UN: A Contribution to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, World Happiness and Cooperation,P.O. Matthew Fox, the apostle of the "Cosmic Christ," was willing to consider going further than any of the others in weeding out excess population. "The film got a rave review in Je Suis Partout, and the screening allowed Cousteau to obtain all the permits and passes he needed to carry on producing more films. In 1957, he was elected as director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. They were all agreed the world must be changed. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldnt even say it. [235] Kirstin Miller, The Story Angels Want Told: An Interview with Nick Bunick, Psychic Reader, October 1997, Vol. In 1930, he entered the cole navale and graduated as a gunnery officer. ", English economist Thomas Malthus, who died before the eugenics movement truly took hold, believed in eugenics because he was concerned about food shortages. After graduating from France's naval academy in 1933, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. 'We must abolish God,' said the third. Thomas Malthus, . Cousteau refitted the Calypso as a mobile laboratory for field research and as his principal vessel for diving and filming. [246] Ann Sheridan, CTA Conference Presents The Reality of Unreality, The Wanderer, November 12, 1998, p. 1 In October 1960, a large amount of radioactive waste was going to be discarded in the Mediterranean Sea by the Commissariat l'nergie atomique (CEA). It's a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial one in the long run. [237] Bob Young, St. In 1933, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and spent most of the next two years sailing the world's seas. The goals of the current crop of New Agers and utopians match what radicals have sought since the French Revolution. You have an extraordinary opportunity to change the course of the world . One letter to Cousteau's best friend, Phillippe Tailliez, is dated May 1 1941. Jacques Cousteau's Undersea World brought the mysteries of the oceans to life for millions. 'And that's roughly three times what the planet should have. And with supporters of the early eugenics movement believing that people inherited traits like feeble-mindedness and poverty, this meant to them that society had an obligation to thin this growing herd. In 1946, Cousteau and Tailliez showed the film paves ("Shipwrecks") to Admiral Lemonnier, who gave them the responsibility of setting up the Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines (GRS) (Underwater Research Group) of the French Navy in Toulon. [23] An homage was paid to him by the town by naming the street which runs out to the house of his birth "rue du Commandant Cousteau", where a commemorative plaque was placed. [243] In an interview with the environmentalist E Magazine, he added, I think the population should be closer to when we had indigenous populations, back before the advent of farming. His work also created a new kind of scientific communication, criticized at the time by some academics. Cousteau, who later became so popular in France that he received 80,000 letters in 1981 asking him to run for president, gave evidence at the trial wearing his naval uniform and medals. Widely quoted on the internet are these two paragraphs from the interview: "What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? Many others will die a prospect that these gurus view with cold equanimity. Jacques-Yves Cousteau once said, "Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today" ("Population," Internet). But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.[242] That works out to 127,750,000 people per year, and 1.27 billion people to eliminate per decade. Cousteau liked to call himself an "oceanographic technician". He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation, and was a member of the Acadmie Franaise. The United Religions Initiative: Foundations for a World Religion, Journal of the Spiritual Counterfeits Projects, Fall 1999, The sponsors of the Earth Charter call for "fundamental economic, social, and cultural changes," and wish to rectify the "anthropocentric emphasis" of the 1992 Declaration on the environment produced by the UN at Rio de Janeiro." News, analysis & spirituality by email, twice-weekly from CatholicCulture.org. gtag('config', 'UA-43227631-1'); printing this excerpt of an article written in ARSH 2002 by Lee Penn in full, with the, , akin to Cave Men, that must be made extinct. 6-7 He will allow 80 to 100 years to reduce the population of the Earth from 6 billion to 2 billion. Shop: Roman Catholic "RC" Brand Original White Logo Collection Pillow | Multiple colors and sizes available. In it, the future captain of the Calypso complained bitterly of the problems he, his wife Simone and their two sons were having finding accommodation in Marseille, at that time a temporary haven for thousands of Jewish refugees trying to flee occupied France. "The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. And how you get there is very complicated. In 1947, Chief Petty Officer Maurice Fargues became the first diver to die using an aqualung, while attempting a new depth record with the GERS near Toulon.[8]. Aqua Lung was one of the greatest Jacques Cousteau inventions. ", British biologist Francis Crick is quoted as saying, "in an attempt to solve the problem of irresponsible people and especially those who are poorly endowed genetically having large numbers of unnecessary children sterilization is the only answer. However, Hitler wasn't the first to champion the idea of wiping away humans deemed to be unfit. 'The first thing is reduce men to a common level.' He is quoted as saying, "We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill." In referring to undesirable people as elements, she follows the example of the Nazis, the Communists, and others who dehumanize their opponents to justify destroying them. The Reluctant Ally, Le Mississippi. [248] David Spangler, Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred, Delta/Merloyd Lawrence; p. 159 [235] The resisters will be sent to a different vibrational plane[236] not as a punishment, but to improve their karma. (1139), "So now let us realize that we are in the harvest time of the Piscean Age - the last days of that 2,100 year period. One American burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. In place of the pro-life movement we need to develop the 'spirituality of recycling,' proposed Ruether, 'a spirituality that includes ourselves in the renewal of earth and self. [2], In Toulon, where he was serving on the Condorcet, Cousteau carried out his first underwater experiments, thanks to his friend Philippe Tailliez who in 1936 lent him some Fernez underwater goggles, predecessors of modern swimming goggles. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. Jacques Cousteau, the marine adventurer who won fame for revealing the murky secrets of the ocean's depths to millions of television viewers around the world, may also have spent the best part of his life concealing a few murky secrets of his own, his biographer claimed yesterday. " (1137). It is wrong to produce a little black child who will lead a life of suffering. On 2 December 1990, his wife, Simone Cousteau died of cancer. On June 20, 1999, the San Francisco Chronicle reported: " 'We're at 6 billion people on the Earth,' said Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, who was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet prize last week. They will have moved from an active state to a relatively passive one.[231] Relatively passive like a corpse? Du Bois was a leading With a population around 20,000, this small town by the shore offers fun by the beach, bay, or beautiful wooded areas. In 1976, Cousteau located the wreck of HMHS Britannic. Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-Andr-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France, to Daniel and lisabeth Cousteau. Simple it is, but remember, My friends, it embodies the Plan of God. Nick, Willamette Week, Vol. Beneath the Frozen World, Mission Cousteau en Antarctique. In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life, Frederick Hyman being its first President. [224] Barbara Marx Hubbard, Happy Birth Day Planet Earth: The Instant of Co-Operation, Ocean Tree Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986; ISBN 0-943734-08-8, p. 31 ", Clarence Darrow is known for being the ACLU defense lawyer in the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" in which he defended the teaching of evolution in schools. This time, let us heed the warning! Part IV. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957. That works out to 127,750,000 people per year, and 1.27 billion people over 10 years. (1129), "The movement called Deep Ecology emphasizes spiritual or religious awareness as a guide for our relationships to the living world. [2] ", Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-Andr-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France, to Daniel and lisabeth Cousteau. As Hitler remarked in 1924's Mein Kampf, "There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. While there, Cousteau received Fidel Castro on his ship for dinner. After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megve, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there. 1125 Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Four Reformers," reprinted in The Portable Conservative Reader, ed. The leaders of the New Age movement argue that the earth is overpopulated, and that radical measures are needed to defuse the population bomb. In the 1940s when world population was less than half what it is today , Alice Baileysaid, certain physical restrictions should be imposed, because it is now evident that beyond a certain point the planet cannot support humanity.[239], Matthew Fox has said, Excessive human population is a grave danger its one of the reasons I joined the Episcopal church, because of its open-minded and pragmatic view of birth control.[240], In 1997, Gorbachev said, for a certain transitional period families should limit themselves to one child; once the worlds population is stabilized, the former Communist premier would consider upping our ration to two children per family. Human nature does not change, since mankind is created in Gods image. How reassuring it is to be told on such high authority that, in this New Age, where God's Plan takes root 'no weeds shall grow.' ", Celebrated writer George Bernard Shaw explored the biology of eugenics in his political writing. The latter was on the rise and cities became more crowded as people moved to be closer to work. should be 2 billion people on earth or fewer, a steep decrease from the current 6 billion population. Le vol du Pingouin, Cousteau in the Antarctic. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. NOTE:Internet document citations are based on research done between September 1997 and January 2000. On 12 July 1937, he married Simone Melchior, his business partner,[4] with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel (born 1938) and Philippe (19401979). He was particularly known for both his antisemitism and his anti-Americanism. We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking, Cousteau said. In 1995, Cousteau became involved in a legal battle with his son Jean-Michel, who was advertising the "Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort" in the South Pacific, to prevent him from using the Cousteau name for business purposes in the United States. After talking about acquiring his love of the water and his career exploring the oceans, Cousteau addressed environmental pollution and overpopulation, making controversial remarks about population control. During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the Aqua-Lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today. However, an automobile accident, which broke both his arms, cut short his career in naval aviation. The CEA chief, Francis Perrin, decided to postpone the dump. [245] Michael S. Rose, Feminist Theologian Urges Religious To Find A Way To Weed Out People, The Wanderer, June 11, 1998, p. 1 'The first step,' said the first, 'is to abolish the Bible.' Cousteau is known as one of the fathers of scuba diving, which he helped pioneer in the mid-20th century. [230] Robert Muller, My Testament to the UN: A Contribution to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, World Happiness and Cooperation, [231] David Spangler, Revelation: The Birth of a New Age, Lorian Press, 1976 (fifth Lorian Press printing 1984), ISBN 0-936878-00-2, p. 164, [232] David Spangler, Revelation: The Birth of a New Age, Lorian Press, 1976 (fifth Lorian Press printing 1984), ISBN 0-936878-00-2, p. 160, [233] David Spangler, Revelation: The Birth of a New Age, Lorian Press, 1976 (fifth Lorian Press printing 1984), ISBN 0-936878-00-2, p. 161, [234] Barbara Marx Hubbard, Happy Birth Day Planet Earth: The Instant of Co-Operation, Ocean Tree Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986; ISBN 0-943734-08-8; p. 17, [235] Kirstin Miller, The Story Angels Want Told: An Interview with Nick Bunick, Psychic Reader, October 1997, Vol. The species known as whole-centered humanity will evolve.[225] At the time of the quantum transformation, humans capable of cooperating to self-transcend will do so; elements who maintain the illusion of separation will become extinct just as Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal humans became extinct.[226]. 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