to control a mythical over-population danger.....Over population is some kind of decadent socialist conspiracy, no wait, its now a myth? Or its Glenn Beck back in 2009 referencing back to roots of a collaborative book written over 30yrs ago (1977) that discussed all possible variety of approaches to population control?
Is Glen Beck still around? Of course he is and thats exactly where you got that hit piece from, so stop being so disingenuous & lying about your distorted half-insane sources, old fart...
"Glenn Beck claims science czar John Holdren proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population"
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/29/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-claims-science-czar-john-holdren-propos/
In response to the comments from Beck and others, Holdren's office issued this statement: "The quotations used to suggest that Dr. Holdren supports coercive approaches to limiting population growth were taken from a 1977 college textbook on environmental science and policy, of which he was the third author. The quoted material was from a section of the book that described different possible approaches to limiting population growth and then concluded that the authors’ own preference was to employ the noncoercive approaches before the environmental and social impacts of overpopulation led desperate societies to employ coercive ones. Dr. Holdren has never been an advocate of compulsory abortions or other repressive means of population limitation."
Holdren's office also provided a statement from Annie and Paul Ehrlich, the co-authors: "We have been shocked at the serious mischaracterization of our views and those of John Holdren in blog posts based on misreadings of our jointly-authored 1000-page 1977 textbook, ECOSCIENCE. We were not then, never have been, and are not now 'advocates' of the Draconian measures for population limitation described — but not recommended — in the book's 60-plus small-type pages cataloging the full spectrum of population policies that, at the time, had either been tried in some country or analyzed by some commentator.
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