Little emitters

Environment | Climate change becomes the latest excuse to push population control | Alisa Harris

Alexei Ustimov/ITAR-TASS/Newscom

America's founding documents don't include a right to reproduce—according to America's science czar, John Holdren, in a 1977 textbook he helped to write. When people questioned the textbook's views on population control, the White House dismissed the "three-decade old, three-author textbook" and said that Holdren does not believe it's the government's job to determine "optimal population."

But while Holdren has been quiet on the subject of "optimal population" in the past few months, academicians and population control groups have not been as reticent. As world leaders get ready for the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, recent studies are trumpeting population control as a solution to global warming.

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