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“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three”
“To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied,” Ehrlich wrote.
Ehrlich spelled out exactly what he meant in an interview with a liberal blog/news site called Raw Story.
“Giving people the right to have as many people, as many children that they want is, I think, a bad idea,” the Web site quoted Ehrlich as saying.
“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins,” Ehrlich added.
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Maybe he should off himself and free up some space then.
DiscePati on January 23, 2013 at 9:22 PM
The worst part is that since she’s being made to help pay for them – like I am for abortion – she has at least the right to voice her opinions.
But that of course does not make her anything more than a selfish broom-riding liberal hag.
MelonCollie on January 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM
This man needs to be put in a grave, soon and preferably before he dies.
Flange on January 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Notice how these characters never take their own advice?
Scribbler on January 23, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Margaret Sanger … remixed.
HondaV65 on January 23, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Ugly a##ed, psychotic leftists shouldn’t reproduce….
BigWyo on January 23, 2013 at 9:28 PM
There are alternatives for achieving their objectives. I think progressives would be none too happy with how I would want to do it, but they’ll find out if they keep pressing theirs.
Dusty on January 23, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Well, it’s a darn good thing that his view carries exactly zero weight. Why exactly are his thoughts in the news anyway? Who the hell does he think he is? Why does anyone care?
crosspatch on January 23, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Who died and made this guy a kiddie counter?
Get a hobby, homefry, geez.
TexMex817 on January 23, 2013 at 9:29 PM
12 babies is a lot of punishment for one woman.
tom daschle concerned on January 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM
A lot older, still no smarter.
Knott Buyinit on January 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM
That’s fun.
Hey progressives, this is where you’re headed. Feel free to gloat for awhile on the obvious superiority of what he says, but tomorrow your assignment will be to figure out how to take that right away from people. And you can’t make it a financial penalty, because then only the poor can’t have extra kids, and that would be racist and everything. And you can’t just give forced abortions, because you won’t catch them all in time and we’ll end up with at least some extra kids. No, you’re going to have to do forced sterilizations and/or get permission from the government to copulate. And don’t think you can just swear by Gloria Steinhem to use birth control either, because you can’t be trusted, and anyway sometimes it doesn’t work.
It’s amazing how lightly progressives say things like not having a “right” to children. The reality of that is just bizzaro Orwellian.
TexasDan on January 23, 2013 at 9:31 PM
said the poster boy for retroactive abortion.
MikeA on January 23, 2013 at 9:31 PM
What’s this crap about rights again!?
OldEnglish on January 23, 2013 at 9:32 PM
Like Rachel Carson, another one who’s been proven spectacularly wrong and yet is still lionized.
ddrintn on January 23, 2013 at 9:32 PM
He’s shaping impressionable minds at Stanford, not just writing manifestos in a remote cabin somewhere.
TexasDan on January 23, 2013 at 9:32 PM
I thought that these leftists were all about the right of choice?
Oh wait…….
TKindred on January 23, 2013 at 9:33 PM
Mitt Romney had one of Ehrlich’s protege’s as his advisor on the environment. John Holdren…
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why people of good morals did not find Romney a compelling presidential candidate.
astonerii on January 23, 2013 at 9:34 PM
My paternal grandmother had seventeen, and my maternal had thirteen.
OldEnglish on January 23, 2013 at 9:34 PM
twelve kids is a lot, and not many people have that many. but three? that’s a completely normal number, in fact, lots of people out there have more than three. this is so ridiculous. does this moron actually think he can convince most of america that three kids is too much? wow, just wow…
Sachiko on January 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM
does this moron actually think he can convince most of america that three kids is too much? wow, just wow…
[Sachiko on January 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM]
He believes in incentives and penalties for the world to conform to his preferences, and compulsion if those fail.
Dusty on January 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM
Liberalism is a brain disorder.
bgibbs1000 on January 23, 2013 at 9:57 PM
Given that Ehrlich has never once been correct in his entire life as a so-called “public intellectual,” why does he even still get attention? If he had any shame, he would have curled up and disappeared after his humiliation by Julian Simon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
mabryb1 on January 23, 2013 at 10:01 PM
I have four kids and am working on number five. I’m raising my own conservative army. Let’s encourage Liberals to not have kids in the name of the environment. If they do, they’re hypocrites.
Charlemagne on January 23, 2013 at 10:04 PM
liberals can’t inherit the earth if they don’t reproduce. Guess that is why they are so hell-bent on running the schools, since otherwise they would die out.
txmomof6 on January 23, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Another reminder of why I cling to my guns…not my bible so much…but yes my guns.
William Eaton on January 23, 2013 at 10:19 PM
They’re not children, they’re unaborted fetuses. The Left’s Brave New World is a nightmare.
jnelchef on January 23, 2013 at 10:45 PM
It may be worth remembering that the reddest areas of the United States are low population density areas. The pro-overpopulation crowd may well be the death of conservatism. Ehrlich has a point.
thuja on January 23, 2013 at 10:46 PM
Only in your sick little mind would this lunatic ‘have a point’.
You wanna talk pro-overpopulation, take a gander at Dumbocrats and their “open borders” policies.
MelonCollie on January 23, 2013 at 11:26 PM
Well, you have a right to your view. And I have a right to tell you to take your view and shove it up your rectal orifice.
The Rogue Tomato on January 23, 2013 at 11:40 PM