Czar 54, Who Are You?

IBD Editorials ^ | July 20, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Leadership: Our new science czar, John Holdren, once backed compulsory sterilization and forced abortion as part of a government population-control program. The only thing missing was a Soylent Green recipe.

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In April, President Obama declared that "the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over." In everything from stem cell research to climate change and energy policy, reason and science would triumph. The problem is that what the Obama administration considers science, as exemplified by the choice of Holdren, is troubling.

In a recently rediscovered 1977 book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with doomsters Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren, who holds the post of presidential assistant for science technology, revealed his pessimistic and apocalyptic views on all three topics. They are disturbing.

He hates people and views them as the root of all planetary evils. Large families are a target of Holdren and the Ehrlichs, who write that they "contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children" and "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility."

On page 837, Holdren writes "it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

Overproducing children? On the next page, Holdren asserts that "neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce." He missed that part about life being an inalienable right.

[tbw2]

The funny thing is that many of them could be convinced to do so voluntarily. Personally, I think it should be mandatory for those on welfare. Obamacare jokes Obama jokes

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Presumably, most people would agree that the only
humane means of achieving any of these goals on a global
basis is by reducing the birth rate. The alternative is to
permit the death rate to increase, which, of course, will
inevitably occur by the agonizing “natural” processes
already described if mankind does not rationally reduce
its birth rate in time.
p.737
Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren. 1977. 1051 pages.

[OneWingedShark]

Watch the documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed; there are some interesting historical/philosophical parallels that are apparent in the last 1/3 to 1/4.