Michelle Malkin has been pressing his office for more information, and has been snippily rebuffed.
Last week, I called the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to press Holdren on his views about forced abortions and mass sterilizations; his purported disavowal of Ecoscience, the 1977 book he co-authored with population control zealots Paul and Anne Ehrlich; and his continued embrace of forced-abortion advocate and eugenics guru Harrison Brown, whom he credits with inspiring him to become a scientist.
Malkin’s digging hasn’t uncovered any great denouncement of his previous writings…just that he’s gotten smart enough not to come right out and call for putting sterilants in our water and government-mandated abortions for “undesirables.”
Well, I did indeed read one of Holdren’s recent works that reveals his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He’s just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria. In 2007, he addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Holdren served as AAAS president; the organization posted his full slide presentation on its website.
In the opening slide, Holdren admitted that his “preoccupation” with apocalyptic matters such as “the rates at which people breed” was a lifelong obsession spurred by scientist Harrison Brown’s work. Holdren heaped praise on Brown’s half-century-old book, “The Challenge to Man’s Future,” then proceeded to paint doom-and-gloom scenarios requiring drastic government interventions to control climate change.
Not that I was rooting for Obamacare in the first place, but I have to agree with Malkin…
If this is the kind of ghoulish “science” that guides the White House, we can only hope that Obamacare is dead on arrival.
DOA, indeed.
Michelle Malkin puts dead or irrelevant links in her posts, and do you ever wonder why?
Hint: The links don’t support her extremist conclusions
Here is the quote by Harrison Brown that Malkin says reveals Holdren’s reverence for the gurus of population control authoritarianism.
“It is clear that the future course of history will be determined by the rates at which people breed and die, by the rapidity with which nonrenewable resources are consumed, by the extent and speed with which agricultural production can be improved, by the rate at which the under-developed areas can industrialize, by the rapidity with which we are able to develop new resources, as well as by the extent to which we succeed in avoiding future wars. All of these factors are interlocked.
Harrison Brown (1917-1986)”
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/2007_San_Fran/02_PE/pe_01_lectures.shtml#plenary
This is what John Holdren said about Harrison Brown in 2007:
“My pre-occupation with the great problems at the intersection of science and technology with the human condition – and with the interconnectedness of these problems with each other – began when I read The Challenge of Man’s Future in high school. I later worked with Harrison Brown at Caltech.”
Is that so bad? Notice that in her article today, Malkin refers to Holdren’s “preoccupation” with “the rates at which people breed”, but what he actually said was that he was preoccupied with science and tech.
The next slides in Holdren’s 2007 presentation show more deceased or aged professors. This powerpoint was for Holdren’s first address to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and he was giving tribute to scientists who came before him. It was only natural and polite for him to honor the old scientists and past presidents of his organization! That does not mean he is clinging to any of their beliefs.
The 1977 book “Ecoscience” was a textbook, so of course it discusses all kinds of possible solutions — that does not mean that the authors endorsed or advocated the solutions they list.
PrisonPlanet and other websites have printed about 10 or 20 pages out of the total 1057 page or just 1 or 2%. Is that a fair sampling? Probably not, but at least THOSE websites reproduce the ENTIRE pages, unlike Michelle.
What does Malkin do? She cuts the pages to support her dishonest and inflammatory remarks.
Holdren has now made it clear that he never supported any kind of forced sterilization, even 32 years ago. If you read the longer excerpts at prisonplanet, you will see that is probably true.
Finally, did you know that in 2004, just 5 years ago, Malkin wrote a book with the entire purpose of advocating internment camps for all American Muslims? And just who would be doing that?? The government!
Oh, and the link Malkin gives to Amazon for book review of Harrison Brown’s 55 year old book, just happens to have no book reviews! Here’s one that does.
http://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Mans-Future-Harrison-Brown/dp/0813300339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248447455&sr=1-1
Obviously I don’t know what this long dead scientist said 55 years ago — none of us do because this book, like Econscience is also out of print. However you should know that the birth control pill and other contraceptives were not even invented yet, and people now use these voluntarily in most cases don’t they? Whatever this Brown wrote, it has to be viewed from the perspective of 1954. And, just because the now 65 year old Holdren admired Brown 30 to 50 years ago doesn’t mean Holdren endorses every single thought that Brown had.
Finally, here’s another reason why Michelle didn’t link to the power point. It lists the goals that Holdren thinks science, tech & public policy should work toward. It lists his basic agenda. Guess what? They are all goals that almost everyone would agree with.
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunder (Target: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people living on less than $1/day and the proportion of people suffering from hunger.
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
Goal 5 Improve maternal health
Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS malaria and otehr diseases
Link that works:
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/2007_San_Fran/02_PE/pe_01_lectures.shtml#plenary
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