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[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by 2006fronty

You conveniently forgot the references that are in the exact same wikipedia page lol.

Regardless, we're all in this together and ridiculous arguments from BOTH sides unfortunately don't help matters.

The references are from his published works, lol.

You want me to add it in?

You still think it's made up?

[Kal-El]

Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued that, "if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come."[17] In 1973 Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many."[18] In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls,including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children, and recommended "the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences" such as access to birth control and abortion.[19][7]

References

1. ^ a b Profile: John Holdren "Why He Matters","WhoRunsGov.com", A Washington Post Co Pub. accessed July 24, 2009.
2. ^ a b c News release. "Obama to Name John P. Holdren as Science Adviser"AAAS, December 18, 2008.
3. ^ Staff and news service reports. "Obama's science adviser starts job", "msnbc.com", March 20, 2009.
4. ^ Press Release.holdren_confirmation_release_3-20-09.pdf "Holdren confirmed as Director of OSTP"Office of Science and Technology Policy, March 20, 2009.
5. ^ Koenig, Robert. "President Barack Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Faces Limited Criticism at Confirmation Hearings",Seed Magazine, February 13, 2009.
6. ^ Video.[1]Senate Confirmation Hearing, February 12,2009.
7. ^ a b c Mooney, Chris."Hold off on Holdren (again)", "Science Progress", July 2009.
8. ^ Pratt, Andrew Plemmons "Right-wing Attacks on Science Adviser Continue", Science Progress, July 21, 2009
9. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2009-07-21). "Holdren's Controversial Population Control Past". The American Prospect. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?...n_control_past. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
10. ^ a b "John P. Holdren's CV", The Woods Hole Research Center
11. ^ Holdren, John P. "Science in the White House",Science Magazine", Abstract, May 2009.
12. ^ Holdren, John P."The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead""The Scientific American"
13. ^ Holdren, John P. "Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics", the Boston Globe, August 4, 2008.
14. ^ Holdren, John P. "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge."The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.
15. ^ Holdren, John P."Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities",Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.
16. ^ "Faculty page-Harvard University". http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/fac...y/john-holdren.
17. ^ Ehrlich, Paul R.; Holdren, John P. (1969), "Population and Panaceas A Technological Perspective", Bioscience 19: 1065–1071, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1294858
18. ^ Holdren, John P. (1973), "Population and the American Predicament: The Case Against Complacency", Daedalus, The No-Growth Society: 31–44, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7...cover#PPA31,M1
19. ^ Ehrlich, Paul R.; Anne H. Ehrlich and John P. Holdren (1977). Ecoscience: population, resources, environment. San Francisco: Freeman. ISBN 0716705672.

[2006fronty]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

The references are from his published works, lol.

You want me to add it in?

You still think it's made up?

Click the links in #'s 7,8, and 9 and read.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by 2006fronty

Click the links in #'s 7,8, and 9 and read.

They support my posts. He did indeed co-author those books. And a co-author is completely responsible for the contents.

Of course he will now say his views are changed, but it doesn't change what he once proposed.