We wrote The Battle for the Soul of Western Civilisation in the sincere hope of alerting our fellow citizens to the enormous threat posed to the future of Western civilisation.
As reported in our book, these threats aim to deconstruct the most significant values and traditions of the West. Part of this strategy is to eliminate the critical thinking of the unwary population, which is then more docilely submitted to the heavy yoke of the ruling classes. Addressed in our book are also the dreadful experiences in social engineering imposed on the recalcitrant population, such as radical theory of gender, mass immigration, and the frontal attack on freedom of speech.
We are living in an age of folly, especially in Western Europe but also in other parts of the Western world. It even appears to us that the actions of certain oligarchical groups are deliberately oriented towards the obliteration of the native populations. Of course, these oligarchies engendering such deadly process will do anything to achieve their ultimate goals. Greatly assisting this process of destruction, of course, is the notorious ‘climate change religion’.
History teaches us that some ancient civilisations practised human sacrifice to appease their gods to court their good graces. Those primitives believed that through human sacrifice the forces of nature could somehow be appeased. For example, the ancient Aztecs honoured their gods by killing people in a field with arrows so that their blood might fertilise the land
Perhaps we are simply repeating history. The Malthusian, modern environmental movement is akin to another pantheistic religion that demands the blood of the innocent. It contains a vision of sin and repentance, damnation, and salvation. As Alexandra Marshall points out:
Progressive environmentalists usually recoil at the accusations of faith, protesting that they are ‘atheists’. They are not. At their least religious they are spiritualists that embrace mysticism and superstition. Others are devout in a variety of nature cults that have not yet coalesced into a coherent faith – but they will…
Monetary absolution is a theme favoured by the cult of Climate Change. Radicalised teachers, media personalities, ‘scientists’, and politicians fill the national soul with apocalyptic guilt – laying the blame on hot and heavy until the demoralised public drag their wallets to the ATO and empty them in prayers. Tax the poor, save the planet.
Children, in particular, are traumatised into believing they are sinful by birth – that their existence is a carbon burden on the planet and a selfish act by their parents. To atone for being born, they are brainwashed into upholding the faith of global apocalypse and supporting political leaders – as a moral duty – who legislate profitable Net Zero ventures.
In this pantheistic worldview, it is only logical to place the goal of population control above the dignity of human life and to resort to any means available to reduce the human population to preserve ‘Mother Nature’ from being despoiled. Forgoing children is now promoted as environmentally friendly and the Daily Mail newspaper reports a mother who killed her pre-born child in the belief she was helping to save the planet.
It is hard to imagine anything more terrifying than living in a culture where human life is subservient to the achievement of other, lesser values. The point is that evil can be and often is perpetrated under the guise of doing good. University of Texas environmentalist Eric Pianka once told the Texas Academy of Science that at least 90 per cent of the population would need to die to ‘save the planet’.
The Battle for the Soul of Western Civilisation
By Augusto Zimmermann and Gabriël A. Moens AM
Paperback, 180 pages, $29.95 ISBN: 9781923568136
December 2025 release
What links this biologist to other radical environmentalists is a sinister desire to eliminate a significant amount of the world’s population. ‘In order to stabilise world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day,’ argued Jacques Cousteau, the recipient in 1977 of the International Environmental Prize awarded by the United Nations for ‘outstanding contributions in the field of the environment’.
One may even speculate whether the transsexual agenda discussed in our book is directly related to the ultimate goal of further reducing the world population, especially in the West, considering that only heterosexual couples can effectively guarantee the survival of our civilisation and humanity at large. And yet, as demonstrated in our book, starting this kind of conversation is getting increasingly more difficult due primarily to the ongoing suppression of freedom of speech.
Indeed, the ruling classes are doing everything to silence the voices of dissent. Free speech has long been recognised as a mechanism against the concentration of power. By contrast, totalitarian regimes restrict speech as a matter of course. Anyone who has studied a skerrick of history knows that protecting free speech is about giving voice to the powerless. Hence, control of speech is about preventing the dissemination of ideas that are not sanctioned by the ruling classes. The result is the loss of democracy – the establishment in the West of highly authoritarian regimes that enforce mandated viewpoints and ‘acceptable’ opinions.
We have dissected in our book some of the most visible characteristics of the socialist mind. Also explained are the deliberate attempts to deconstruct our society via mass immigration and radical gender theory. Despite all that has been covered in our book, we still believe that this is not the time to be discouraged. Conflict seems inevitable but we must never be discouraged, because there is still hope for a better and brighter future.
As academics who value freedom and wish to advocate for our fellow citizens, we remain fully committed to the advancement of the common good. We feel a moral duty to stay on the side of those who are forced to endure this dramatic situation, a situation that we believe is not going to be resolved without the level of courage required of those who wish to restore the values and traditions that were bestowed on us by our forefathers, sometimes at the cost of much blood, sweat and tears.
Values are inherited to us trailing their past. When we cut off the links that connect them to the past, these values lose their foundations. We consider that this is precisely what is happening at this very moment in the West. When the American Founders stated that we are endowed by God with inalienable rights, this is an all-or-nothing statement. Hence, we cannot take away what we do not like and think that we can preserve the rest. Since these values came to us trailing their past, and it is not entirely assured that we can preserve our inalienable rights after our values and traditions are deliberately abandoned. The testimony of history, and the witness of current events, are a powerful indication of this impossibility.
As once stated, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And if vigilance has been absent for such a long time, it is no wonder we are witnessing the deconstruction of a once formidable civilisation. It is therefore our firm conviction that we should no longer remain silent. The authors of this book, therefore, call on all citizens of goodwill to resist. There is no time to waste, as much of what we once held for granted has now been taken away. For our sake, and for the sake of our future generations, it is time to fight boldly and courageously for the full restoration of our basic rights and freedoms. It is time to resist the forces of darkness and tyranny that ultimately seek to destroy our societies and to enslave all of us. And we must do so before it is too late.
Augusto Zimmermann is foundation dean and professor of law at Alphacrucis University College. He served as associate dean at Murdoch University. He is also a former commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.
Gabriël A. Moens AM is an emeritus professor of law at the University of Queensland and served as pro vice-chancellor and dean at Murdoch University.
