Population Control: History Of This Anti-Human Agenda - In The Tank #407

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 407 of the In The Tank Podcast. Kamala Harris' most recent gaff of suggesting the need to "reduce population" inspired the ITT crew to dedicate the entire episode to the legacy of population control. From the Eugenics movement of the 1940s-60s, to China's one child policy of the 80s and 90s, to modern day calls to save the planet, the authoritarian left has a long history of promoting this anti-human agenda.

PRIMARY TOPIC - POPULATION CONTROL: AN ANTI-HUMAN AGENDA

NYP - Kamala Harris says US must ‘reduce population’ to fight climate change in latest gaffe
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/kamala-harris-says-us-must-reduce-population-to-fight-climate-change-in-latest-gaffe/

1940s - 1960s: Eugenics Movement

Journal of Economic Perspectives - Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf

UoM - Charles Darwin's Descent of Man
https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/controlling-heredity/origins/darwin#:~:text=In%20The%20Descent%20of%20Man,a%20vigorous%20state%20of%20health.

1970s - 1990s: China's One-Child Policy

Smithsonian Magazine - The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/

(Documentary) One Child Nation
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/one-child-nation/

Britannica - one-child policy
https://www.britannica.com/topic/one-child-policy

(Tweet) Paul Ehrlich - lamenting the end of China's one-child policy
https://twitter.com/PaulREhrlich/status/659814941633986560

Environmental Movement - Zero Population Growth

Time Magazine - Here's When Americans Really Started to Panic About Overpopulation
https://time.com/4388565/zero-population-growth-world-population-day-2016/

(Report) Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24870306

The Guardian - Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez right to ask if the climate means we should have fewer children?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/feb/27/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-right-to-ask-if-the-climate-means-we-should-have-fewer-children

(letter) World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806
"[Population] Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, or more than 200,000 per day, the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity."