Ted Turner predicts 'mass cannibalism' by 2040
Says crops will have been destroyed by global warming
Posted: April 03, 2008
12:40 am Eastern
=A9 2008 WorldNetDaily
Ted Turner
The year 2040 will find the world's crops dead, most of the people in
a similar state of decay, and those few left alive will be cannibals,
according to a prediction from Ted Turner, founder of Turner
Broadcasting and CNN.
His comments came in an hour-long interview with Charlie Rose on PBS,
and some remarks about the environment, the U.S. war on terror and the
U.S. military were compiled by Newsbusters into an abbreviated video.
"Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be
living in a failed state like Somalia or the Sudan," said Turner,
calling future living conditions intolerable.
The media mogul was interviewed in his role as founder of the United
Nations Foundation, to which he has donated hundreds of millions of
dollars in pursuit of solutions to global "problems."
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He said drastic action =96 immediately =96 is required to address global
warming.
"Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in
10, not 10 but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will
grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be
cannibals," Turner said.
He said civilization will have collapsed and "the droughts will be so
bad there'll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide."
WND previously re****ted multiple challenges by top scientists and
their organizations to the theory that global warming is caused by man
and is ravaging the world.
The recent 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, for
example, refuted repeatedly the contention promoted by Al Gore, the
U.N. and Turner that there is an "established scientific consensus"
humans are causing the Earth to warm catastrophically.
The conference was organized by the Heartland Institute and attracted
hundreds of experts and scientists.
"The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say =96 over
and over again, in every newspaper in the country practically every
day and in countless news re****ts and do***entary films," a notice on
the Heartland Institute website proclaims. "But they have lost the
debate."
Environmental scientist S. Fred Singer kicked off the conference by
releasing a re****t entitled, "Nature, Not Human Activity Rules the
Climate," summarizing a three-year, international, scientific research
project analyzing the claims of the Nongovernmental International
Panel on Climate Change, or NIPCC.
"There are many factors that affect the climate," Singer told WND.
"What we can now exclude by scientific evidence is the argument that
greenhouse gases are an im****tant factor in causing global warming."
Singer and the NIPCC agree that global warming occurred in the 20th
century, but disagree human activity is responsible. He argues instead
that natural causes are likely to be the dominant cause of the
scientifically observed global warming under discussion.
The NIPCC scientists contend the U.N. agenda "is largely hypothetical
and not sustained by observations" driven by complex mathematical
models.
Turner also said the population is another problem that must be
handled.
"We've got to stabilize the population," he said.
Rose asked what is wrong with the population.
"We're too many people. That's why we have global warming. We have
global warming, because too many people are using too much stuff. If
there were less people, they'd be using less stuff," he said.
He also launched verbal offensives against the U.S. war on terror,
describing war as senseless and suggesting a cutback in military
budgets.
"Right now the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military,
which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together. The
two countries that the military-industrial complex and some of the
politicians would like to demonize and make enemies are Russia and
China. China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing
craft to attack the United States. And Russia wants to be our friends,
too," he said.
Turner said he is sure of that, because "I spent time with the Chinese
and Russians."
He said even if China and Russia are increasing their military
budgets, they are not "credible expenditures."
And even with the U.S. "$500 billion military budget, we can't win in
Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks,
they don't have a headquarters, they don't have a Pentagon. We don't
even know if they have any generals."
Pointing out the insurgents have used a lot of roadside bombs, Rose
asked Turner where he thought they were obtained. But Turner took off
in another direction.
"I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because
we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis
were in Wa****ngton, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: We'd be
bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded," he said.
He compared Iraq to Vietnam.
"All we have to do is look at Vietnam. In Vietnam, we killed 3 million
Vietnamese. They never attacked us, we attacked them. It was another
one of these pre-emptive wars like the war in Iraq. And we lost
50,000. They lost 3 million. That's like 60 for one. But at the end of
18 years we left, and the Vietnamese were there," he said. "I'm just
so glad, because I think about it a lot, that the Vietnamese, the
North Vietnamese, didn't give us an ultimatum that we couldn't leave
Vietnam until we signed a decoration of surrender, you know, so they
could get that on tape just like the Japanese surrendered on the
Missouri."
He said the U.S. isn't the first superpower to have gotten "beaten" in
the Middle East region. He said the Soviet Union lost in Afghanistan,
when, he claimed, the U.S. was helping Osama bin Laden.
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