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Notes
1. P. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine, New York, 1968).
2. Ibid., p. xi. The mortality estimate is based primarily on information from UNICEF, WHO, and other sources on infant/child mortality and may be conservative. For example, it is now estimated that 40,000 children die daily (14.6 million a year) from hunger-related diseases, according to International Health News, September 1987. The number "at least 200 million" is based on an average of 10 million deaths annually for 21 years. See also a discussion in World Resources Institute/ International Institute for Environment and Development, World Resources 1987 (Basic Books, New York, 1987), pp. 18-19. The exact number, of course, can never be known with precision (see note 15, Chapter 4).
3. That is, 28 people will be born and 10 will die. The growth rate is now 3 people per second.
4. L. R. Brown, The Changing World Food Prospect: The Nineties and Beyond, Worldwatch Paper 85 (Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C., October 1988).
5. P. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p. 61.
6. The situation has been analyzed and reanalyzed in the technical and popular literature. Two key technical papers are P. R. Ehrlich and J. P. Holdren, "The Impact of Population Growth," Science, vol. 171 (1971), pp. 1212-17, and J. P. Holdren and P. R. Ehrlich, "Human Population and the Global Environment," American Scientist, vol. 62 (1974), pp. 282-92. Much important information can be found in works by Lester Brown and his colleagues in the excellent State of the World series issued by Worldwatch Institute and published by W. W. Norton, New York, and in the World Resources series issued by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), (published by Basic Books, New York). Two other landmark works are the Global 2000 Report to the President, issued in 1980 by the Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of State, and the World Commission on Environment and Development's 1987 report Our Common Future (the "Brundtland Report," named for the commission's chairwoman, the Prime Minister of Norway), published by Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford. A detailed exposition of the connection of population growth to the rest of the human predicament can be found in P. R. Ehrlich, A. H. Ehrlich, and J. P. Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1977). The most recent extensive popular treatment is A. H. Ehrlich and P. R. Ehrlich, Earth (Franklin Watts, New York, 1987).
In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
In the 90-minute interview in Ginsburg’s temporary chambers, Ginsburg gave the Times her perspective on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first high court nomination. She also discussed her views on abortion.
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
Originally posted by andy1033
Sterilising people is the lesser of two evils. These people are all about power and when you get into these positions you think you know it all. Know it alls are the worst thing for the human race, as they are the ones that get into power normally, and want to run everyones lifes.
[edit on 7/13/2009 by andy1033]
"A Comprehensive Planetary Regime"
Holdren believed a world government might play a moderate role in the future: setting and enforcing appopriate population levels, taxing and redistributing the world's wealth, controlling the world's resources, and operating a standing World Army.
Such a comprehensive Plenetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable...not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes...The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade...The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits...the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits. (p. 943.)
Part of the power wielded by this "Regime" would be in the form of a World Army. The trio wrote that the United States must destroy all its nuclear arsenal. But this would not render us defenseless against Communist aggression. "Security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force...The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization" (p. 917, emphasis added).
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by CRB86
Both are part of the radical left.... The right favours less government control, and more individual freedom, while the left wants to give power over to the STATE over any individual freedom, and of course the Left claims that the STATE represents all the people, which is never the truth.
Facists have Socialist ideals. They are against individualism and believe they can do better than Communists, and of course in Fascism the government controls everything, as Mussolini called it "the Corporate State".
[edit on 13-7-2009 by ElectricUniverse]
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
reply to post by CRB86
Both are part of the radical left.... The right favours less government control, and more individual freedom, while the left wants to give power over to the STATE over any individual freedom, and of course the Left claims that the STATE represents all the people, which is never the truth.
Facists have Socialist ideals. They are against individualism and believe they can do better than Communists, and of course in Fascism the government controls everything, as Mussolini called it "the Corporate State".
[edit on 13-7-2009 by ElectricUniverse]
Originally posted by WhatTheory
What is going on here?
This is totally unbelievable that there is a person who has the ear of Obama and who Obama made czar with this sort of radical views and opinions.
This guy is a total fascist/marxist and it further supports the case of Obama being a marxist/fascist. How on Earth can anyone with these sort of radical views even be allowed any position of power.
This is some crazy [stuff]. Obama is dangerous! Look out!
Yay! Hope and change we can believe in.
zombietime.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
[edit on 7/13/2009 by WhatTheory]
Removed censor circumvention and replaced it with [stuff]
[edit on 13/7/09 by masqua]
Originally posted by WhatTheory
This guy is a total fascist/marxist and it further supports the case of Obama being a marxist/fascist. How on Earth can anyone with these sort of radical views even be allowed any position of power.
Originally posted by suicydking
Second, as far as the quotes being thrown around, has anyone verified who wrote those quotes originally? As Holdren is the co-author of the book, he may not have said any of the things that are being thrown around here.