A real mouthful of a category! Examples would include William Morris as well as Richard Hart.
Those who envisage some natural or artificial catastrophe wiping away the major part of the human race, allowing a "fresh start" and some kind of utopia.
In some cases, such as "Earth First!" and the "Earth Liberation Front" the utopia appears to be "ecological" and in others the human race needs to be wiped out and rebuilt, primarily to heal or rectify its social structures or mores. Medawar suspects that this distinction may prove cosmetic and that even the animal rights and "deep ecological" extremists who want a massive reduction in human population* really want human society, to conform to a particular template and for everyone left alive to dance to the activist's tune.
* The massive reduction varies, from those who say that the Earth can only support two billion people (ie: they want a 70% cull) to those who want something over 90% to go, culiminating in those who want so few human survivors (one to three million, worldwide) that it's hard to express the intended/hoped-for cull as a meaningful percentage!
Medawar invites comments from readers who can throw light on NRPAUs joining mainstream pressure groups of absolutely any kind, and especially, on the presence of those holdings these views in political think tanks. (Think tank members can influence politics at a very high level without revealing their objectives, let alone winning a democratic mandate.)
If anyone knows of a NRPAU in policy-level civil service post, or serving on a formal advisory committee (more directly part of the policy process than a think-tank) then it really is important that this become known.
Medawar thinks that all comments giving information on this topic should be anonymous. Even then, do not make them on work computers unless you're really sure no-one monitors what's done on the work computers. (The MoD may be the only branch of government where this is ever true.)
Those who envisage some natural or artificial catastrophe wiping away the major part of the human race, allowing a "fresh start" and some kind of utopia.
In some cases, such as "Earth First!" and the "Earth Liberation Front" the utopia appears to be "ecological" and in others the human race needs to be wiped out and rebuilt, primarily to heal or rectify its social structures or mores. Medawar suspects that this distinction may prove cosmetic and that even the animal rights and "deep ecological" extremists who want a massive reduction in human population* really want human society, to conform to a particular template and for everyone left alive to dance to the activist's tune.
* The massive reduction varies, from those who say that the Earth can only support two billion people (ie: they want a 70% cull) to those who want something over 90% to go, culiminating in those who want so few human survivors (one to three million, worldwide) that it's hard to express the intended/hoped-for cull as a meaningful percentage!
Medawar invites comments from readers who can throw light on NRPAUs joining mainstream pressure groups of absolutely any kind, and especially, on the presence of those holdings these views in political think tanks. (Think tank members can influence politics at a very high level without revealing their objectives, let alone winning a democratic mandate.)
If anyone knows of a NRPAU in policy-level civil service post, or serving on a formal advisory committee (more directly part of the policy process than a think-tank) then it really is important that this become known.
Medawar thinks that all comments giving information on this topic should be anonymous. Even then, do not make them on work computers unless you're really sure no-one monitors what's done on the work computers. (The MoD may be the only branch of government where this is ever true.)
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