Science czar denies coercive population control views
President Obama’s science czar coauthored a book in the 1970s that raised coercive measures as possible means of curbing the human population.
The Senate confirmed John Holdren March 19 as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), but quotations on involuntary population control in a 1977 textbook he coauthored now have come under scrutiny.
In the book, “Ecoscience,” Holdren and his coauthors, environmentalists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discussed such compulsory measures to limit population as abortion, sterilization after a second or third child, a sterilizing capsule implanted at the onset of puberty and a sterilant given to the population in drinking water or food....