Prominent Scientists Have Obviously Not Been Reading Brave New World, 1984, Or The Giver

In the hysterical irrational approach we've come to expect from the wacky end of the environmental movement comes this suggestion from an editorial in The Oregonian on how to avert global crisis:

"Just as vaccinations are mandatory for the world's most dreaded diseases, we must now have mandatory worldwide birth control until humans, in excessive numbers, are no longer a threat to our planet's health. An analogy: When parasites infest an animal until it dies they simply find another host. Like blind fools, we're doing the same thing to our planet with overpopulation, which, like a biblical plague, is consuming and contaminating all of our life-support systems at an alarming rate.

Sounds like someone's reading from the Chinese manual on population regulation.

The rich nations are engorged, the poor nations are starving. The problem is not now, nor has ever been, nor will be very soon, a lack of resources. The problem continues to be wanton waste and excessive consumption by the wealthy at the expense of the impoverished and the producing classes. Fix that one, and then we'll draw straws to see who has to undergo forced sterilization. My guess is it won't be the rich.