The Anti-Human Malthusians

In the words of Anthony Horvath:

Jesus said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

Thomas Robert Malthus would have disagreed. The philosophical forerunner to Darwin, Malthus argued that there are limited resources, and competition for them is intense. When there are too many people competing for those resources, you have war, famine and a continual threat to civilization itself.

For Malthus, the pie is only so big: We must reduce the number of people who want a share of it. . . .

They believe that in order to solve the world’s problems, we must reduce the number of people in it. If we cannot do that, they argue, we should be content with a tiny-yet-equal share of the pie. Abundance, if there is any, should be delivered to Benevolent Government Administrators to be redistributed “fairly” and “equally” to all. Extreme measures may be necessary.

Consider “bioethicist” Jacob Appel, who, in calling for mandatory genetic screening, said:

“The most obvious advantage of mandatory screening is that it will reduce the long-term suffering of the children who are spared disease. At the same time, preventing future cancers will certainly save tax dollars. These savings could be redirected toward researching new therapies and providing quality care for current patients.”

Appel assumes that one cannot simply increase the amount of money for research without taking it from another part of the pie. Usually associated with this mindset are perverse notions of compassion. Note Appel’s concept of sparing children from disease: Prevent them from coming into existence in the first place. . . .

The Malthusian way to solve human problems is to eliminate humans.

One of the Malthusians of their era was Paul R. Ehrlich. Writing in 1962, he bemoaned:

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate. …”

And what did he think needed to be done? In a mid-1970s textbook called “Ecoscience,” which he co-wrote with current Obama science czar John Holdren, they argued that the over-population “crisis” may require compulsory abortion and mass sterilizations through the water supply. And worse!

It is astonishing how the Malthusian Mind so quickly leaps to solutions that envision population control rather than innovation.

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