Population Growth "Alarmism" as a Deep Political Control Device

[Jan Klimkowski]

A closely related issue: food for our expanding billions of people. Popular "Malthusian" concerns how many people the globe can sustain were put to rest by the fabled Green Revolution that flowered from the 1960s onward, bringing dramatic gains in new corn, wheat and rice varieties, huge new irrigation systems, synthetic fertilizers and pesticide use.

This is an interesting and confusing paragraph.The author seems to think we have pretty much put the Malthusian paradigm to rest.And,why the heck he conflates the green revolution of the sixties,with pesticides, non-organic fertilizers,and God forbid,Monsantos engineered seeds,is rather mind boggling.

Keith - agreed. Indeed, the entire article is a mess, with initiatives and concepts only half understood and often misinterpreted.

The position of America's Republican party is particularly badly represented.

Whilst the Republicans have pandered to their anti-abortion Christian base over international funding of abortion, the right has frequently facilitated extreme and dangerous population control methods, such as experimental chemical sterilization agents. Field use in the developing world of such dangerous techniques has often been achieved using right-wing foundations as cut-outs.

Indeed, it's highly likely that the Bush family - like many affluent WASP families - is essentially eugenicist in outlook.

I'm not sure what is more pathetic: the view that "Aryan DNA" is inherently superior or the view that "WASP DNA" is the path to global prosperity and enlightenment.