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Entries Tagged ‘population control’

The Rockfeller Foundation’s Molecular Vision of Life

How the Aims of Eugenics, Social Control, and Human Engineering Shaped Molecular Biology and 20th Century Science
Chris Masterjohn
January 16, 2009
A Review of Lily E. Kay’s The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (Oxford University Press, 1993)
Is the molecular biology we have inherited from the twentieth century [...]

Slash population to save the world: green lobbyist

The Age
April 21, 2009
Australia should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says.
Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world’s population is the only way to avoid “environmental suicide”.

Sir David Attenborough Calls for Depopulation

BBC
April 13, 2009
The broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has become a patron of a group seeking to cut the growth in human population.
On joining the Optimum Population Trust, Sir David said growth in human numbers was “frightening”.