Fifty years after The Population Bomb appeared, few people remember that it advocated dispatching US helicopters so that Indian peasants could be kidnapped & forcibly sterilized.
Ehrlich’s fanaticism was on stark display when he described overpopulation as a cancer:
We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival. (pp. 166-167)
In this regard, he declared that America should have pressured the Indian government to sterilize “all Indian males with three or more children”:
We should have volunteered logistic support in the form of helicopters, vehicles, and surgical instruments. We should have sent doctors to aid in the program…Coercion? Perhaps, but coercion in a good cause. (pp. 165-166)
Flashback: US Should Kidnap And Sterilize Indian Peasants To Prevent Overpopulation
By Paul Homewood Repost from Donna Laframboise: SPOTLIGHT: Saving the world = barbaric behaviour. BIG PICTURE: The paperback edition of biologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb, was 233 pages long. The first three chapters described a problem. The final two chapters were titled “What Needs to be Done” and “What…