The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 407 of the In The Tank Podcast. Kamala Harris' most recent gaff of suggesting the need to "reduce population" inspired the ITT crew to dedicate the entire episode to the legacy of population control. From the Eugenics movement of the 1940s-60s, to China's one child policy of the 80s and 90s, to modern day calls to save the planet, the authoritarian left has a long history of promoting this anti-human agenda.

PRIMARY TOPIC - POPULATION CONTROL: AN ANTI-HUMAN AGENDA

NYP - Kamala Harris says US must ‘reduce population’ to fight climate change in latest gaffe

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/kamala-harris-says-us-must-reduce-population-to-fight-climate-change-in-latest-gaffe/

1940s - 1960s: Eugenics Movement

Journal of Economic Perspectives - Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era

https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf

UoM - Charles Darwin's Descent of Man

https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/controlling-heredity/origins/darwin#:~:text=In%20The%20Descent%20of%20Man,a%20vigorous%20state%20of%20health.

1970s - 1990s: China's One-Child Policy

Smithsonian Magazine - The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/

(Documentary) One Child Nation

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/one-child-nation/

Britannica - one-child policy

https://www.britannica.com/topic/one-child-policy

(Tweet) Paul Ehrlich - lamenting the end of China's one-child policy

https://twitter.com/PaulREhrlich/status/659814941633986560

Environmental Movement - Zero Population Growth

Time Magazine - Here's When Americans Really Started to Panic About Overpopulation

https://time.com/4388565/zero-population-growth-world-population-day-2016/

(Report) Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24870306

The Guardian - Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez right to ask if the climate means we should have fewer children?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/feb/27/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-right-to-ask-if-the-climate-means-we-should-have-fewer-children

(letter) World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806