Holdren? Isn’t he the lunatic that said NASA’s top priority was thanking the Muslims for inventing math, physics, biology, literature, medicine, music, the telescope, radio, the wheel, water vapor, the Sun, and oxygen?
He is not a lunatic, but an honest enemy of capitalism. Holdren's degree was in plasma physics but his mentor was a left-wing environmentalist. He never did any physics and was hired to head the first U.C. Berkeley Group dedicated to energy and the environment. The group that chose him did not know the extent of his commitment to Marxism. While heading the new group, and initially an associate professor, Holdren wrote for America's leading Marxist journal, Ramparts, based in Berkeley, of which David Horowitz was a senior editor.
For his whole career he has promoted strategies to weaken capitalism, never having done any science, experimental or theoretical. He is a community activist. His writing, including the textbook with Paul Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, reflects the far left fringe. He and Ehrlich, in his textbook, promote the likely need to sterilize women to reduce the population to "sustainable" levels. He organized for the California groups that succeeded in shutting down a completed nuclear power plant. He was finally hired away from Berkeley, though "hired" is probably a euphemism for his having been transferred among the power centers of the organized left, to Harvard, the Kennedy School Chair paid for by Theresa Kerry, whose dead husband would be turning in his grave.
Everything Holdren says about science, and about most everything else, must be filtered by his four decades of participation with the Communist Elite. No one has illuminated the penetration by utopian Marxists of both our educational institutions and government agencies as M Stanton Evans and his acolyte, Diana West. Start with Ms. West's "American Betrayal"; she will lead you into, and thoroughly document the amazing penetration of the Departments of State, Treasury, and Defense, along with FDR's closest advisers. Evans' "Blacklisted By History" opens of the FBI files concealed by Truman, among others, and his "Stalin's Secret Agents" documents dozens of the other agents whose roles were covered by government managers who chose to participate in the cover-up rather than expose their failures to protect us from people whose behaviors were suspicious. Today's Marxists appear to be acting enablers of the Muslim Brotherhood, perhaps planning with Russia to pick up the pieces when it is propitious to eliminate the several Islamic states. The left is still very powerful, and much better organized than those committed to our Constitution.