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Last week I had the miserable experience of interviewing a man who had accidentally survived a suicide pact with his wife. Dr William Stanton, 79, has bone cancer and is plainly very ill: doctors give him three to eight months....
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Peak oil and population control (interview with William Stanton)
Peak Oil News — ... supplies will require the population of Britain to fall from around 60m today to just 2m in 2150. Two million! This will either happen inadvertently, he argues, as people kill each other for precious resources, or in a controlled way, as laws restrict women to just one child each, humane euthanasia becomes widespread to deal with people who represent a "net drain" on society, and immigration is made illegal - arrivals would be put to work in chain gangs, with other criminals. Times of London

Drumbeat: November 4, 2009
The Oil Drum — ... enterprise, have become a blazing funeral with the devastating week-long inferno at its oil depot in Jaipur, the famed "Pink City" in northwestern India. India's worst oil fire disaster has not only had the IOC golden jubilee birthday cake candles turning into fatal dynamite sticks, but again roused worldwide safety questions about locating industrial and residential areas near large oil storage facilities. "Big Oil" corporations can breed big fears. Peak oil and population control Dr Stanton happens to be one of the foremost proponents of ...

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