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The "problem" is overblown. The book Fallen Angels simply popped into my head because of the subject. I don't remember it as being that good really. It was just something I read a long time ago.
"I didn't know that I shouldn't mention fiction that is tangentially related to the topic." I was just being facetious. This is a book oriented site after all.
The other book, Ecoscience, I disagree with. It does advocate reducing the population not by murder, but forcibly none the less. One thing interesting is that the quotes from the book are not contested by anyone, other than to say that it was just a textbook or some other sophistry.
"But I would like to see sensible people start to limit population voluntarily,"
My wife and I agree with you. Not wanting to bring more children into this world we have no natural children.
No one will agree on how to control world population. In the end it probably will be as Holdren envisioned in Ecoscience, with forced sterilization and abortion.
Those who are old, weak, handicapped, or mentally ill will have to be dealt with. They will consume too many resources.
If you can find it, see the movie "SELLING MURDER: THE KILLING FILMS OF THE THIRD REICH".
Synopsis -
"Examines the propaganda films made by the Nazis to justify the euthanasia policy of the 1930s and 1940s whereby over 200,000 people were killed on the grounds that they were mentally or physically disabled. The two most explicit of these films, which directly advocated the killing of disabled people, were destroyed by the Nazis as the war ended."
I've seen it.
Back on topic, next post.
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