Vice President Kamala Harris is facing scrutiny after she suggested that the Biden administration’s goal is to reduce the world’s population.
Speaking at Coppin State University in Baltimore this Friday, she specifically seemed to call for lowering the world’s population in order to provide ostensibly cleaner air and drinking water.
“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,” she said.
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The comments rubbed many the wrong way, including billionaire Elon Musk.
“Reducing population is [nuts]. We need to increase population,” he tweeted.
His assertion was based on the leftist notion that humans don’t just consume — they create. The idea that they just consume was introduced by leftist Professor Paul Ehrlich in the 1960s, according to Utah State University’s Center for Growth and Opportunity.
“Ehrlich believes that more people create scarcity. For every new person, there is less for everyone else. At some point, the Earth’s carrying capacity will be exceeded and cause desolation,” a write-up from the center reads.
Here’s the catch: “What Ehrlich misses is the ability of people to create new ideas and solutions that continue to increase the carrying capacity of Earth.”
“Andrew McAfee tells the story of Earth’s expanding capacity in his book, ‘More from Less.’ In it, he demonstrates that humans have been getting more value out of fewer resources over time. As McAfee points out, ‘A great reversal of our Industrial Age habits is taking place. The American economy is now experiencing broad and often deep dematerialization,'” the write-up reads.
“For example, your phone has replaced a whole collection of goods that you would have bought separately 50 years ago—cds, GPS, clocks, calculators, and cameras. We continue to produce more wealth from fewer resources,” it continues.
Reducing population is
We need to increase population
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2023
The good news is that Harris’ use of the word “population” was allegedly just a mistake. According to the White House, she’d meant to say “pollution,” not “population.”
The bad news for the administration is that nobody — at least nobody on the right — believes them given how radical this administration has already shown itself to be.
Indeed, most critics suspect that Harris accidentally let the cat out of the bag when she used “population” instead of “pollution.”
“I don’t think it was a ‘gaffe.’ She was telling the truth [as she sees it]. These people are nuts,” one critic wrote on Twitter.
Others followed suit.
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freudian slip?
— JimAaron (@ArOkTxNm1) July 15, 2023
It’s not a gaffe. She just said the back room crap they all talk about, on the street.
— ben_the_patriot (@ben_the_patriot) July 15, 2023
Not a gaffe. An accidental revelation. This is what they talk about behind closed doors. This is what they want.
Nice try though, media entity.
— Thomas Matthew (@latayprime) July 15, 2023
This wasn’t a gaffe.
It’s failed political maneuvering.
She says population for one audience and pollution for another.
She thinks the population is the pollution.
— Kristopher J. Anderson (@KAndersonAkron) July 15, 2023
It wasn’t a gaffe. They don’t need to hide it anymore, it has been proven Democrats can say or do anything and still get around 50% support. If you can say an 8 year old can choose their gender and not lose support from your base, you can say anything.
— Xavasadar (@xavasadar) July 15, 2023
The disbelief and conspiracizing, as some might call it, is the result of the Biden administration’s extremely radical climate change agenda. After all, the current Bureau of Land Management boss, Tracy Stone-Manning, is herself a population control advocate.
Nominated to the post two years ago by President Joe Biden, Stone-Manning advocated for population control in her 1992 graduate thesis, according to the Daily Caller.
“The origin of our abuses is us. If there were fewer of us, we would have less impact. We must consume less, and more importantly, we must breed fewer consuming humans,” she reportedly argued in her thesis.
She also wrote an article in High Country News in 1991 warning that people have “annexed too much space” and were, therefore, a burden to the grizzly bear population, according to Breitbart.
“The damage is evident and the demise of the griz imminent, yet we continue our war cries while breeding our weapons. We can bicker and moan at each other in our battle about what is going to help the bear now, but ultimately we need to look at maps less, crunch numbers less, and begin to wage war on overpopulation,” she wrote.
And then there’s President Biden himself.
He “previously voiced acceptance of China’s one‐child (now two‐child) policy, telling a Chinese audience, ‘Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second‐guessing — of one child per family,'” according to the Cato Institute.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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