> Thanks for the clarifications. Not being able to get a copy of the book in
> my own hands is obviously an issue. I look forward to your blog
> discussions.
My comments seem to have led to some confusion. I wasn't trying to
defend Holdren. I was saying that neither side was quite capturing
the entirety of the argument in the book, whether those providing the
juiciest quotes of the most appalling measures discussed or those
providing quotes wherein the authors say they advocate more mild
measures. The actual argument is that the most extreme measures
appalling, but that the population crisis is so great they could be
warranted, and that they find defense of individual rights to regulate
family size to be without merit.
The claim that they considered the "mild" measures they preferred to
be access to abortion and birth control is a direct lie, because they
clearly state that individual freedom to use birth control and
abortion can not in any way be considered sufficient to address the
population issue.
I have to do some more research before writing my blog post, but I
think these people are nutcases. The idea that we need totalitarian
government to arrive at smallness is very reminicent of Marx's idea
that we need a dictatorshp of the proletriat in order to achieve the
stateless society in which no one needs government because we all love
each other. The result was governments that slaughtered tens or
hundreds of millions of their own people.
Chris
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