Daryl made a post last year during the election campaign listing Obama’s science and technology advisers and compared them to McCain’s advisers. He suggested that Obama’s were much more scientist and less military. He was right but now we are learning a little more about Obama’s Science Czar. John Holdren is his name. He has or at least had some rather interesting ideas. One of them was forced sterilization of the masses. He actually believed that was a good idea and wrote about it in a book that is still being used in universities. Hmmm. I’ll take my scientists less anti-people thank you.
A good article about this here.
Anti-people might not have been the right phrase. He does seem to care for people’s well being but he’s got some wacky ideas.
Comment by Don — Thursday July 16, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
Holdren co-authored a book “Ecoscience” with Paul Ehrlich (author of “The Population Bomb”) in 1969, that discussed the dangers of the population explosion and examined any and all possible approaches to remedy the problem.
The book is written in a dry, academic manner that throws out ideas on everything from mass sterilization to forcing unwed mothers to give up their children or marry.
Some of these ideas are disturbing, but it’s not clear how much the co-author himself advocated any of the suggestions in the book, as opposed to just presenting all possible solutions.
Personally I believe that over population remains one of the most serious problems confronting the world. As more and more people compete for limited resources, something’s going to give. Poverty, famine, war, riots, destruction of the environment and “Jihad” are all probable outcomes.
China’s “one child per couple” policy was drastic and widely criticized, but seems to have had the desired effect on the population growth in that country.
How far would I go to limit population growth? I don’t know, but I’m open to suggestions.
Comment by Daryl — Sunday July 19, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
Yes, that’s what I said.
Comment by Don — Sunday July 19, 2009 @ 1:02 pm