Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
Richard Werner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Certainly in the early years, that was very clear.
They met in a Rockefeller villa in Italy and all that.
And then very early on, this executive committee drafted also Mr. Okita from Japan, which is very ironic because he's the high growth expert.
But the Club of Rome's two main messages were,
Economic growth is bad and we need to reduce it.
We've reached the limits.
We're going to destroy the planet, blah, blah, blah.
We need low growth.
And secondly, oh, too many people on this planet.
In fact, very much regurgitating the views of the East India Company leadership and its hired economist, Malthus, Thomas Malthus, famous for his prediction, population growth is too high, there's not enough food, we're going to starve, we need to reduce the population growth.
Sometimes...
What you read is, it sounds more like we need to reduce the population.
Of course, that's what they did in India, quite clearly by result, but to a large extent intentionally.
Again, these are policy decisions, famines and other, taking people's livelihoods away, destroying the textile industry in India.
Millions of people... MRNA shots.
Well, that's the modern version.
So, this is the message of the Club of Rome.
And the Club of Rome drafted this high-growth expert.
Now, I think he was fairly innocent, and he was at this stage, he was retired, and he was called up by this selective international body that has a good reputation to be in the executive committee, and he agrees.
Many Japanese people want to be very international, and all these nice, famous people are there backing this, so I'll join.
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