Which brings me to the topic of President Barack Obama, John P. Holdren (his science and technology czar), the Catholic church and birth control for ALL. [AND KEEP IN MIND -- John P. Holdren served Gov. Mitt Romney (..carbon caps....mandated health care..) before moving with Barack Obama to the White House]
Anne and Paul Ehrlich, John Tanton and John P. Holdren (Obama's long standing Science and Technology adviser) -- Their march -- starting back in the late sixties for population control -- now an ecological-population argument -- has been a long journey together.
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/tributes/tr_tanton_2003oct.html
Garrett and Jane Hardin: A Personal Recollection (Hemlock Society adviser to Hardin on FAIR — who with his wife committed suicide)
Tribute to Garrett Hardin - by John H. Tanton, M.D.
My interest in population developed in the late 1950s as I was finishing medical school. By 1975 I had been elected national president of Zero Population Growth, an organization inspired by Paul Ehrlich’s book “The Population Bomb.” Then in the late 1970s the US fertility rate fell to below replacement, and immigration emerged as the main source of domestic population growth. To Garrett’s dismay, ZPG declined to address these new circumstances.
When in 1979 I helped set up the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) to tackle the immigration question, Garrett served from the beginning as an advisor. Later he consented to set aside his aversion to board meetings by joining the FAIR Board. Much of his later writing was on the demographic aspects of immigration and can be found by searching under his name in the archives of a quarterly journal of the immigration reform movement, TheSocialContract.com. The bookstore at this site offers for sale three of Dr. Hardin’s books that the Social Contract Press reprinted: Stalking the Wild Taboo; Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of the Right to Life; and Creative Altruism: Source and Survival. Also available is his The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons, published by FAIR.
It is hard to see one’s friends and people we admire decline physically to the point where they decide to exit this vale of tears felo de se. Garrett’s post polio syndrome had reduced him to using a wheel chair; he could no longer swim well. Macular degeneration cost him the reading vision in his right eye. Life in a nursing home was not an option for this man of letters. Jane had been diagnosed with ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, one of the least desirable ways to leave this planet. It worsened. Both were long time members of the Hemlock Society, and decided to take matters into their own hands. This can give us a lot to think about, especially as our own infirmities come to the fore - and since my wife and I live in a state that counts Dr. Jack Kievorkian among its citizens.
Anne and Paul Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren “The Population Bomb”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_H._Ehrlich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
http://www.amazon.com/Dominant-Animal-Human-Evolution-Environment/dp/1597260967
http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/paul_anne_ehrlich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren [Obama’s science and technology advisor]
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).
Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, 1990.
In 1968, The Population Bomb1 warned of impending disaster if the population explosion was not brought under control. Then the fuse was burning; now the population bomb has detonated. Since 1968, at least 200 million people — mostly children — have perished needlessly of hunger and hunger-related diseases, despite “crash programs to ‘stretch’ the carrying capacity of Earth by increasing food production.”2 The population problem is no longer primarily a threat for the future as it was when the Bomb was written and there were only 3.5 billion human beings.
http://www.ditext.com/ehrlich/preface.html
The world’s biggest problem? Too many people
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/21/opinion/la-oe-harte-population-20110721
Mary Ellen Harte is coauthor of “Cool the Earth, Save the Economy.” Anne Ehrlich is a senior research scientist at Stanford University. John Harte and Paul Ehrlich contributed to this piece. All are biologists involved in the study of climate change and sustainability.
http://www.masterresource.org/2011/03/holdren-malthusian/
Thank you Cindy. If one reads through this compilation of links it becomes almost laughable the man is still a Czar. As usual thanks for the hard work.