A top government climate scientist has called for a major “culling of the human population” in order to fight “global warming.”
Professor Bill McGuire argues that a “pandemic with a very high fatality rate” is required to wipe out a large portion of the human race.
According to McGuire, a mass depopulation event is “the only realistic way” to “avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown.”
McGuire, a Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London (UCL), said the quiet part out loud in a post on X on Sunday.
“If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate,” he wrote.
A backlash to the comments quickly ensued as social media users blasted the professor over the comments.
If half the people on Earth die suddenly we can avoid catastrophe!
— That One Guy Who Is Always Right. (@RickLazzarini) May 12, 2024
McGuire responded to the blowback by deleting the post.
In a follow-up post, McGuire claimed that people were deliberately taking his words out of context.