For the man-caused global warming crowd, Heston might as well be saying, “Climate Change is people.”
I talked about this here and since then there has been a bit of a deluge of evidence to reinforce the point that many man-caused global warming proponents believe the real answer is less of us:
Population control called key to deal
Climate talks should include population problem
Yes, Soylent Green was about the dangers of out-of-control pollution and “overpopulation.” But we have made great strides in pollution control since the movie came out more than 30 years ago. (Made possible by an increase in wealth that has allowed us to pay for these improvements.)
And overpopulation alarm has been with us it seems like forever. The movie, set in 2022, put the population just in NYC at 40 million.
Now, pollution reduction and elimination are always worthwhile goals. And the size of families should be one prudently decided — by the family.
But, just as the solution depicted in Soylent Green was abhorrent, so is the “answer,” as one pundit above put it, of “a planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, [as] the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate.”
