The first message of the stones is:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000* in perpetual balance with nature.
The general theme of it's-not-a-matter-of-if-but-when is legitimate."* 500,000,000 is half a billion, that is five hundred million, or put another way; eleven out of twelve people now living must pass away without children to meet the target.
Tom Ridge, U.S. Homeland Security Director.
