From Staff Reports

HENDERSONVILLE — American society in the future “will be a leisurely one,” as some citizens “will be in various stages of drug-induced experiences” to keep them from being clear-headed enough to criticize and oppose what the federal government is doing.

Indeed, he said hedonism and other distractions will be encouraged by the government, so that the ruling elite can gain more control.

“If this doesn’t shake you down to the core, then there is something wrong with you,” according to Dr. Michael Coffman, considered in some circles to be the top authority on Agenda 21.

He also is a frequent public speaker and the author of a number of books. He made his remarks on April 28 at the Opportunity House in Hendersonville.

To the crowd, he said, “You are the exception ... You’re here because you want to do something about it.”

In contrast, Coffman asserted that “99.9 percent of the American people is out there — dumb and happy ... but not for long.”

He then lambasted the Wildlife Project, which, he said, “seeks to set aside a half of the United States as wilderness ... with the rest of people in Human Habituation Zones.

Speaking more generally, Hoffman said he credits some of his successes not to himself, but to God. Yet, he said the Agenda 21 proponents “hate Christian folks. They hate Christianity.. The despise Christianity.”

As for Roussea’s view of property rights, Coffman said, “Basically, property rights are whatever the government says they are..”

Next, he said the ideal world population, under the scenario of an agricultural world where “human beings are peasant” should be able to support 5 billion to 7 billion people.

“In contrast, a reasonable estimate for an industrialized, world society at the present North American material standard of being would be 1 billion people,” he said.

When questions arose from the crowd about how the population reductions would be achieved, Hoffman said, “These human occupation zones are designed to be totally self-sufficient ... So, if you have a problem, there’s nowhere to go” and a disaster occurs.

Hoffman termed any effort to reduce the world’s population to 1 billion people “bizarre — and it is extremely dangerous ... It is unbelievable, folks. And you’re not hearing about any of this” in the mainstream media.

For the second half of his program, Hoffman addressed global warming, saying that “the discussion is almost totally debunked.”

He added, “The Obama administration is leading the pack,” even misrepresenting the plight of the polar bear to the public. “The polar bear population is the highest it’s ever been,” Coffman said.

“Now there is a strong correlation between CO2 and global warming, right? Coffman asked.

“No!” said a man in the crowd.

Continuing, Coffman said, “Temperature leads CO2 by 600 years, but you’d never know this by reading the popular press.”

Regarding scientists who support the notion of global warming, he said, “They’re basically trying to change the data to fit their hypotheses ... We’’ve not been warm compared to what’s happened in the past.”

Coffman reviewed 3,000 years of temperature data and noted that some scientists believe “what we’ve seen for the last 300 years is a warming up from the Ice Ages.

“There is nothing unusual. It’s part of a natural cycle. They didn’t have any SUVs (to create global warming) back then,” he quipped.

The crowd laughed when a man interjected, “Yeah, but they had fire-breathing dragons.”

Coffman said that “ironically, England is way ahead of us and they forbade the showing of Al Gore’s film ‘Earth in the Balance,” claiming it was too “alarmist.”

Meanwhile, he said, “There is not a single scientist in the world who believes CO2, by itself, will cause global warming ... There is no warming in the areas where the computer models say there should be. In fact, there’s actual cooling.”

As for what is actually going on, Coffman said, “It’s related to our oceans. So what drive our oceans? The sun is the key ingredient in climate.”

In looking at past cycles, he said, “We’re right at the point where another Ice Age occurs.”

He added that Solar Cycle 24, which is being used now, “is much less than what it should have been ... They’re expecting Solar Cycle 25 to be just a bump.”

After a pause, Coffman said, “It could be ... that we’re entering into another Ice Age ... Buy groceries.” (He said the Ice Age likely would be about 3 degrees cooler than average.

On another dismal note, he said, “Europe is right on the brink of collapsing, despite what you’re reading in the (mainstream) papers.”

If Europe collapses, “we could he moving into a great depression or hyperinflation — all of this is caused by Democrats and Republicans.”

During a question-and-answer period, Coffman told one man that “Spain is about to go bankrupt, in part because it’s been working on their alternative energy for about 15 years.”

He explained that he has seen research showing that every green job costs six regular jobs. England and Germany are abandoning alterative energy.

“Windmills don’t work,” Coffman said. “To even get 2 percent of energy from these sources is a stretch.” However, he said the proponents of alternative energy “basically are so disconnected from realtiy” that there is not much room to have a discussion with them.

A man wondered how Coffman could say that human beings are “in a warmer period right now, when the glaciers are melting.”

Coffman disagreed with the man’s assessment, stating that “always, 50 percent of glaciers are growing and 50 percent are shrinking.”

“From 1975 to 2000, we’ve been in a period of warming, but we’ve leveled off now,” Coffman said. “We will see a high variation in temperatures” in the foreseeable future.

Another man said, “I think Obama said oil is obsolete.”

“Algae,” Coffman replied.

A man asserted, “You said last night you see the currency going down.”

“They have to break the U.S. dollar and make it (the country) insolvent ... to convert to a world currency,” Coffman answered.