In June 2024, a video spread on the network in which the US Vice President allegedly indicates the need to reduce the population so that more children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. We checked the reliability of such messages.
For example, in the post of Telegram channel "Alexander Semchenko"Published on June 15, 2024, the viral video was commented as follows:“ US Vice President Kamal Harris in direct text announced a plan for reducing the population so that their children could breathe clean air and drink clean water. By the way, Harris herself has no children. So it’s not entirely clear whose children she baked, advocating a reduction in the population. ” Thanks to the channels' reposts "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak"" And "Dmitry Vasilet»This publication gained 1.7 million views.
Similar messages appeared in Runet last summer. For example, July 15, 2023 Telegram channel Tariknezalejko️️ (176,000 views taking into account the repost of the channel "Sheikh Tamir") Harris brought this quote:" When we invest in environmentally friendly energy and electric cars and reduce the population, more than our children will be able to breathe clean air and drink clean water. " “Kamala just said that the“ reduction of the population ”is the purpose of the climate change. They no longer hide this. You are carbon that they want to destroy. True evil, ”the post says.
According to the TGSTAT service, for 11 months, more than 300 similar records appeared in Telegram, in the amount of about 3 million views. Similar posts are also popular in "VKontakte".
The statement that Harris is childless is not entirely correct, since she has a stepson and stepdaughter. In 2014, the future vice president She got married For the lawyer of Douglas Emhoff, who raised two children from his previous marriage. In 2019 in a column for Elle magazine Harris toldthat neither she nor the children like the term “stepmother” - instead of him they use the word “momal”.
Judging by the banner hanging behind Harris in a viral video, her performance took place in the city of Baltimore (Maryland). July 14, 2023 Vice President Spended In one of the local universities, the broadcast of the event Available On the White House YouTube channel. Harris’s speech was devoted to the fight against climate change and the construction of an economy based on the use of pure energy. At a time mark 57:34 She speaks:
“We set ourselves an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 and reach the zero level of emissions by 2050. The investments that we announce today will help us achieve these goals, but they will do much more - think about the influence not only on the local economy, not only about investments in entrepreneurs and innovators in our community. Think about the influence of things such as public healthcare. When we invest in environmentally friendly energy and electric cars and reduce the population, more than our children will be able to breathe clean air and drink clean water. ”
In other words, Harris really uttered a quote attributed to her about a decrease in the population. However, c official transcript On the White House website, the word population ("population") Furned out And instead of it, the Pollution ("pollution") is indicated. It is possible that Harris made a reservation and wanted to use the phrase Reduce Pollution (“reduce environmental pollution”), which fits into the context of its speech. In an interview with a journalist, the LEAD Stories Factual Camping Project is confirmed And the unnamed representative of the White House, who added that the correction in the transcript is specially made in such a way as to show the recognition of the admission. The fact also clarified the fact that the word Population in Harris’s speech was no longer used. In addition, this is the only time when the phrase Reduce Population Found In publications on the White House website.
Back in 2023, this oversight of the democracy Harris was perceived its opponents from the Republican Party as evidence Theories conspiracy. For example, Congressman Thomas Massey He asked your subscribers on Twitter (now X): "Are you a population that she wants to reduce?" Senator from the state Missouri Eric Schmitt Addedthat Harris “aloud said the quiet part of her and other climatic alarmists of very anti -human ideology and their desire to“ reduce the population ”.” The ultra -right Congresswomen and The supporter a variety of conspiracy theories Marjori Taylor Green askedWhat did Harris mean: “Abortion? Help in suicide? Or what means do you offer to reduce the population to help public health? " The words mentioned at the beginning of this parsing and the words that were dispersed in Russian is that the population is a carbon from which Harris with his colleagues wants to get rid of, belong to the American blogger of the extreme right -winged sense Rogan O'Handley.
In recent decades, various well -known speakers have been talking about the problem of overpopulation in recent decades, whom supporters of the theory of conspiracy have also accused of human -handed plans. For example, Distributed The opinion that an entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates wants to reduce the population of the Earth by vaccination. However, in fact, the meaning of his program is to reduce child mortality using vaccines. This, in turn, should lead to a decrease in population growth and thereby solve the problem of overpopulation. In scientific circles there are other points of view on this question. So, researcher Jane Gudoll more than once declaredThat the population’s growth can be slowed down by improving women's access to education. Some representatives of the academic community AddThe availability of contraception means also affect the reduction of growth. That is, one cannot exclude the version that during her speech Harris could really keep in mind the “reduction in the population”, but not in the form of which its republican opponents wrote about. And they could change the transcript due to indignation that began on the Web.
Thus, Harris actually uttered a viral quote. However, as representatives of the White House explained, she only made a reservation, confusing two consonant English words. It should be noted that in most Russian media the phrase on the reduction of the population was filed precisely as a reservation and it was for it that the US Vice President was ridiculed for it. Moreover, in the note of the publication "Reporter"Published on June 17, 2024, it is reported that Harris made such a mistake twice, although in fact the same case of 2023 is described there.
Photo on the cover: screenshot video @Whitehouse (YouTube)
- Is the video with Kamal Harris true, where she makes a question about yesterday, today and tomorrow?
- Did the UN world ambassador say that all human problems will be resolved if the Earth’s population is 90%?
- Did the head of Pfizer say that by 2023 he plans to double the population of the planet?
- Did Margaret Thatcher say that the economically appropriate population of Russia is 15 million people?
- Is it true that Bill Gates wants to reduce the population of the Earth with the help of vaccines?
If you find a spelling or grammatical error, please inform us of this, highlighting the text with an error and by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
