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You Be The Judgel Population Control One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary stcrilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size.** IN DIRECTOR IN HIS THE POPULATION BOMB “Resources, far from being limited, are abound ing. No more than one to three percent of the earth’s ice free land area is occupied by human beings, less than one-ninth is used for agriculture purposes. Eight times, and perhaps as much as twenty-two time the world’s present population could support itself at the present standard of living.” - JACQUELINE KASUN, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS HUMBOLT STATE UNIVERSITY IN CALIFORNIA, IN HER 1988 BOOK THE WAR AGAINST POPULATION Environmental Crisis or Attack on Productivity ? While proclaiming April 22, 1990 as Earth day, President Bush stated his desire to “heighten public awareness of the need for active participation in the protection of the environment and to promote the formation of an international alliance that responds to global environmental concerns.” - PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, JANUARY 1990 “The cost of environmental regulation Is a long- run reduction of 2.59 percent in the level of the U.S. gross national product.” - DALE W. JORGENSON AND PETER J. WILCOXEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY CENTER, NOVEMBER 1989 The Automobile Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University...said that taxing gasoline to raise the price at least $2.30 a gallon would limit carbon dioxide emmisions. 'If it didn t cut consumption, it would at least reduce the deficit,” said Ehrlich.” - LOS ANGELES TIMES, SEPTEMBER 17,1989 “The automobile means high standards of liv ing, great individual mobility and productiv ity... fn rural .America, it is tbe tmly means of trani^rtation that tutsures employment and income. Without it, the countryside would become depopulated and our cities far more congested than now.” - HANS SENNHOLZ, PH.D. GROVE CITY COLLEGE, GROVER CITY PENNSYLVANIA Government Control or Responsible Freedom? “Some economists and analysts agree that, if we continue consuming resources as we are now, the only way to bring about a balance between de mand and supply will be through authoritarian controls.” - LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER, EARTH DAY DIRECTOR “If environmental extremists are allowed to suc ceed with their plans, the American people will be convinced that they must kwrer their standard of living, boost federal spending, and accept interna tional authority in order to save the earth from what are actually unproved and unsubstantiated theories.” - GARY BENOIT, DfHECTOH OF RESEARCH, THE JOHN BiRCH SOCIETY Ozone Depletion “When Moses went up on the mountain, there... was no problem with the ozone layer.” -TED TURNER OF CNN, EARTH DAY 1990 DIRECTOR, WHILE ISSUING HIS OWN TEN COMMANDMENTS TO DEAL WITH THE WOBLDS PROBLEMS “...changes of ozone concen&airort m the layer at a given latitude and at a given time of the year amount to about 0.2 perccsrtl par year since 1978; but the seasonal change above Denver is 25 per cent, and the variation by latitude is 25 percent between Miami and Vancouver... This tiny posi tive change is not constant; in the i960’s it was about as large, but negative. Why was the world not threatened by suffocation in the ozone glut then?” -PEttR^CKMAN, PH.D. PROFESSOR EMERITUS, ONIVERSfTYDF COLORADO Global Warming “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” - senator TlMOtHy WRTH Off C0L0R«J0 EAR1>I OAY1990 DIRECTOR Current forecasts about globa) warming “are so inaccurate and fi-aught with uncertainty as to be useless to policy makers.” - PROFESSORS RICHARD LINDZEN MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AND JEROME NAMIAS, SCRIPPS INST. OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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