The Jaxen Report: We're getting flavors of the old eugenics

"We're getting flavors of the old eugenics. You're getting people talking about the human life really isn't that important when it comes to these bigger social issues. Right. And you know, we've talked about you and I talked about Francis Galton and the father of eugenics Thomas Malthus and where it really was born.
And a lot of people think, well, that was so long ago. This isn't happening. But in 2009, there was a headline that came out. It's mainstream media. And I think a lot of people may have missed it. And it was talking about a billionaire's club. And it says, billionaire's club in bid to curb overpopulation. Now it says in the article, it was a secretive meeting. And it goes on to say, who is in this club? It was described as the good club. They possibly can't do anything wrong.
By one insider, it included David Rockefeller Jr., the patriarch of America's wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. One of the guests said there was, quote, nothing as crude as a vote, but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy—don't say what strategy—in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.
Right after that, that same year, you saw the media spin machine go into play. You saw op-eds being written with that flavor of ideology. And here we are again. So in 2009, we have The Guardian writes this article, an uncomfortable truth, it says, as the planet's resources dwindle, a debate on population control is needed more than ever. And this is what it says, some disability groups strongly object to any discussion about population limits, fearing that it disguises an insidious prejudice against those with disabilities.
Indeed, any consideration of what are called lifeboat ethics, who would have to be thrown overboard first, uncomfortably reminds us that in extremely hard situations, some become superfluous. It's horribly uncomfortable to ask, it says, even to think how many seriously disabled or very old people with expensive support needs any society can carry. But any one of us can become frail, Dell, disabled, unproductive, and in need of more than we can contribute.
Having too many of us in this position becomes a socio-economic problem. To think in this vein is not disabledism or ageism, but necessary worst-case planning. Wow. So... And, I mean, where did Hitler start, right? Right. In the infirm, he started with the handicapped, the crippled, you know."