Re: population controls and the Paul Holdren controversy

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> A lot of the left have nasty skeletons in their closet, [...]

So do a lot of just about every group of even remotely similar size.

> I've had discussions with environmentalists who told me with a
> straight face that the extra 4 Million deaths a year that are imputed
> as being due to banning DDT were a good thing, because they preferred
> birds to people.

And what's wrong with that?  Just that you disagree?  Certainly birds
have caused a lot less damage to non-bird life than humans have to
non-human life; the only reason I can see for us to prefer people to
birds is that we're people.  (Which, admittedly, is reason enough for
lots of people.)

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