Like father, like son

ACCORDING to the chorus of Running in the Family by 1980s band, Level 42: 'We all have our daddy's eyes'.

- NIALL MCCRAE

But when applied to corporate oligarchs, royal families and political dynasties, this is not such a nice idea. Like father, like son has a darker meaning when considering that our nepotistic ruling class does not have our best interests at heart.

On the contrary, it is working towards our impoverishment, enslavement and even eradication.

A good example is the Trudeau succession in Canada. Pierre Trudeau, who was Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, was an enthusiast of cybernetics and population control.

While 1968 is popularly remembered as the year of emancipatory revolution, behind the scenes it was the anno domini of the new religion of ecological doom.

In the same year came Paul Ehrlich's treatise, The Population Bomb, which warned that the world could not sustain a growing population and that humanity was heading for disaster.

Trudeau worked closely with Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei, leaders of the Club of Rome, which was launched in 1968 at the Rockefeller estate near Rome.

The mission of the Club of Rome was to bring together business leaders and academic experts to work on matters of global concern (in truth, this meant overriding the sovereignty of democratic nations in pursuit of one world governance).

As Matthew Ehret describes in his new book, Science Unshackled (2023): 'Trudeau was a devout supporter of this new organisation, which soon became a centre of neo-Malthusian revivalism during the early years of the 1970s.

'Trudeau even presided over the Canadian branch of the Club of Rome and allocated money to fund the MIT Club of Rome study, Limits to Growth, which became a holy book of sorts."

King's computer modelling indicated that human progress was irreversibly destroying the equilibrium of nature. This justified a strategy of depopulation, although always masked by ecological virtue.