Falling birthrates for thee. By Payton Alexander.
Not comprehensively wrong, just “premature,” over at the NYT
People today forget or simply can’t believe how depraved [Paul] Ehrlich really was:
Demanded that the FCC require TV shows to depict large families in a negative light, so that parents with multiple children would be shamed and ostracized by society.
Proposed forcibly sterilizing millions of Americans by poisoning the water supply to make them infertile. He couldn’t think of a drug to do it “safely,” but wanted to do it anyway.
Supported actual forced sterilization campaigns in India and China, where millions of people were forced to undergo vasectomies and tubal ligations for having too many children. Ehrlich even proposed sending U.S. military helicopters in to abduct people from remote villages to be sterilized. Truly sick stuff!…
Warned that population growth would lead to starvation, but also proposed cutting off food aid to “overpopulated” countries to reduce their populations… by starvation.
But the left is harsher on large families if they’re white:
When I was the letters editor at The Washington Post, it was consistently shocking to me how many letters we got suggesting it would be a good thing for the human race to just go extinct.
I remember hearing Jordan Peterson in 2017 state that the green movement was fundamentally “anti-human.”
I had never heard the term “anti-human” before, and it was striking because I realized that essentially every leftist policy could be so described.
As a liberal myself, it was shocking that I had internalized much of this anti-human value structure. The moment Peterson gave it a name I suddenly saw it and realized I needed to be pro-human from that point forward.