Aurelio Peccei
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| Born | 4 July 1908 Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
| Died | 14 March 1984 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
Italian businessman who attended 4 Bilderbergs in the 1960s, founder of the Club of Rome | |
Aurelio Peccei was an Italian industrial manager who worked for the Agnelli family company Fiat for decades. With Alexander King, he co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968.
Population reduction
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“Otherwise, some solution will come the hard way. Many hypotheses have been advanced. I will cite three ghastly solutions that are ventilated as belonging to the realm of the possible. One is biological: nature, which maintains so many balances, will see to it that human incontinence will be remedied, through some new germ or virus. Another is constrictive and prophylactic: the day may not be far off when—by grafting of population from one region to another, forced exodus, or mass sterilization, or with the help of other clean methods biochemistry might suggest — a ceiling on population or new births will be enforced, in some nations by due process of law, in others perhaps by international measures. And the third, the harshest, is hinted at in a most pessimistic essay by Professor J. D. Bernal (Enormity or Logic and Hypocrisy in the Ultimate Solution, October 1967) — "there is no limit to human folly and callousness" —in the sense that all will end, as the only compassionate and rational solution left, with the elimination of all surplus humans, who will of course belong to the poor of the world. No comment is necessary.”
Aurelio Peccei (1969) [1]
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