“..Among the many prominent converts to the Julian Simon world view on population and environmental issues were Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. Despite howls of protest from the international population control lobby, in 1984 the Reagan administration adopted Simon’s positionthat the world is not overpopulated and that people are resource creators, not resource destroyersat the United Nations Population Conference in Mexico City. The Reaganites called it “supply-side demographics.” Meanwhile, in the late 1980s, Simon traveled by invitation to the Vatican to explain his theories on population growth. A year later Pope John Paul II’s encyclical letter urged nations to treat their people “as productive assets. ..”
Julian Simon Remembered: It’s A Wonderful Life by Stephen Moore
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n2-1.html
“I saw the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Couldn’t believe how anti-human, anti-progress, paranoid environmentalist it was. And stupid. Then that Canadian newspaper editorial called for mandatory one child policies to reduce human population, and recited some of the same insanity about mankind destroying the Earth. In the movie, these brilliant aliens who somehow progressed enough to travel the universe, decide we have to be exterminated along with everything we’ve created. Because WE are harming other species! The moviemakers didn’t see the insanity in that? Then we are given a reprieve but ALL energy is eliminated from our lives. That’s the price we have to pay for being allowed to exist. These kooks believe exactly what was portrayed in that movie.” # 20
Rich nations to offset emissions with birth control
Guradian, UK ^ | 3 December 2009 | John Vidal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/03/carbon-offset-projects-climate-change