How far will people go to fight climate change? You might have thought you’d seen the limits. Think again.

Banning fossil fuels and prescribing “renewable energy” is so last century. Urging vegetarianism or veganism is so last decade. Pushing for population control is so last year. Embracing abortion is so yesterday.

If you really want to be cutting edge, you need to think about family. As in, your uncle Jim and cousin Mary.

As in, eating them after they die.

That, after all, would reduce your demand for beef, pork, chicken, and other meats. And that would reduce the conversion of forests to pastures and grain fields to feed those livestock. And that would capture more carbon dioxide in growing trees while reducing carbon dioxide and methane emissions. So it would fight global warming.

“No,” you say. “Nobody would go that far!”

Oh, yes, some would.

Meet Magnus Söderlund, a Swedish behavior scientist, Professor of Marketing and Head of the Center for Consumer Marketing (CCM) at the Stockholm School of Economics.

At a seminar he presented at a “Gastro Summit” about food for the future in Stockholm September 3–4, Söderlund argued, as reported in Epoch Times, “that we must ‘awaken the idea’ of eating human flesh in the future, as a way of combating the effects of climate change.”

The seminar’s talking points included:

“Are we humans too selfish to live sustainably?
“Is cannibalism the solution to food sustainability in the future? Does Generation Z have the answers to our food challenges? Can consumers be tricked into making the right decisions? At GastroSummit, you will get some answers to these questions—and also partake in the latest scientific findings and get to meet the leading experts.”

If you know Swedish, you can hear Söderlund make his case in an interview on Swedish TV4.

In case you wondered, Söderlund isn’t alone. Atheist evolutionist Richard Dawkins, British psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie, and Wright State University philosophy professor William B. Irvine (who says eating people is no more ethically questionable than eating animals) have all approved of cannibalism. And last May Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D), then a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, signed a law that permits composting human bodies to—you guessed it—fight climate change.

We at the Cornwall Alliance never imagined, when we decided to offer the new book What Would Jesus Really Eat? The Biblical Case for Eating Meat as a thank-you gift to donors, that it would be so timely! But apparently it is. If in the name of climate alarmism we’re going to be pushed into eschewing traditional meats, it seems that something other than vegetables are now on the table: people.

One can only imagine how embracing cannibalism would add to the incentive to cut short the lives of the aged, the seriously injured, the mentally handicapped, and the otherwise undesirable.

Seem far-fetched? Remember how many times the entertainment industry has gradually normalized evil. Then consider the proliferation of films with cannibalism as the central theme. One of the earliest was Soylent Green (1973), starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, and Chuck Connors. In it, a government driven by fears of overpopulation popularized by Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968) secretly arranged to process human corpses into a wide variety of foodstuffs to feed the people.

Thirty-five years ago then-Colorado Governor Richard Lamm essentially slammed the door on his hopes for higher office when he told the elderly, ‘”You’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way. Let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.” Was he just ahead of his time?

To receive your FREE copy of What Would Jesus Really Eat? (hint: it wouldn’t be people!), just make a gift of any size to the Cornwall Alliance before the end of this month, and ask for it, mentioning Promo Code 1909. You can make your gift at our secure online website, or by mailing your check to Cornwall Alliance, 3712 Ringgold Rd. #355, Chattanooga, TN 37412, or by phoning us at 423-500-3009 and leaving a voicemail with your phone number so we can call and you can donate by credit card.

Featured image adapted from a photo by Andrei Lazarev on Unsplash.