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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com
“Ideas have Consequences,” warned Richard Weaver. And bad ideas have had very bad consequences, especially when it comes to population.
Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, was one of the worst ideas ever to come from the mind of man. It predicted the “overpopulation” would cause massive famines in the years to come. Ehrlich’s book coincided with the sexual revolution and the widespread use of the pill and was popularized by the practitioners of both.
The result? The popular aversion to having children that Ehrlich helped to spawn, not to mention the coercive population control movement, has cost hundreds of millions of unborn lives.
In contrast, Pope Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical, Humanae Vitae, published in July of that same year, had much less of an impact. It predicted that, if the world embraced the spirit of reproductive selfishness recommended by Ehrlich and the controllers, that it would ultimately prove disastrous for humanity’s future.