The neo-Malthusian thinking that guides the green movement is not nearly so carefully scrutinized. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Absurd Argument of the Day] Reference
In 1977 he coauthored the book Ecoscience with Paul and Anne Ehrlich, which espouses “the neo-Malthusian view.”. From Wordnik.com. [Post-American Presidency] Reference
Yet amid the much ado about global warming, the people problem is asserting itself with a neo-Malthusian vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [A Planet Without People] Reference
In Brazil the feminist neo-Malthusian anarchist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote: “Love one another more and do not multiply so much”. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference
This view, according to the Ehrlichs and Holdren, proposes “population limitation and redistribution of wealth,” and “on these points, we find ourselves firmly in the neo-Malthusian camp.”. From Wordnik.com. [Post-American Presidency] Reference
The environmental movement has always had a vocal segment that is anti-technology, anti-human, neo-Malthusian, and for 40+ years have declared crisis after crisis that would end civilization as we know it. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » MIT’s Lindzen on “ClimateGate”] Reference
Unlike his notably mainstream appointments in foreign policy and economics, he's tilted fairly far afield on the environment with individuals such as John Holdren, a longtime acolyte of the discredited neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich, and Carol Browner, who was Bill Clinton's hard-line EPA administrator. From Wordnik.com. [The Democratic Party Could Face an Internal Civil War] Reference
If I have to fault the books on anything it is this: Bass does superb job of designing a human sub-species evolved and genetically engineered for "hive" living (which in SF does not mean an instinctual pseudo-telepathy such as bees and ants have so much as just the usual neo-Malthusian/pseudo-Darwinian fantasy of adjustments to super-over-crowding in an ultra-tech urban environment, with appropriate behavioral adjustments). From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass] Reference
Wielding their neo-Malthusian theories, the imperialists try to put the pressure on governments and peoples of all underdeveloped countries to keep them from adopting measures that are conducive to real development: measures which are not other than the profound structural changes in the economy and society and which imply a basic redistribution of income which, in turn, only grown out of structural changes in property ownership; in other words, revolutionary changes. From Wordnik.com. [POSITION ON BIRTH CONTROL] Reference
That is the neo-Malthusian spirit of today's neoliberalism. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Famously disputing the neo-Malthusian warnings of Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
Our Plundered Planet in 1948, arguably the first neo-Malthusian doomsday tract of modern environmentalism. From Wordnik.com. [Claremont.org] Reference
Marxians, including Karl Marx himself, expressed the bitterest antagonism to Malthusian and neo-Malthusian theories. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
The earlier Marxians, including Karl Marx himself, expressed the bitterest antagonism to Malthusian and neo-Malthusian theories. From Wordnik.com. [Reasoned Audacity] Reference
They apply this neo-Malthusian lesson to our "cancerous" mega-agriculture, based on artificial fertilizer, fossil fuels, and mono-cropping. From Wordnik.com. [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference
When I was in college 35 years ago, there was a major fad of neo-Malthusian doom-mongering, led by the "Limits to Growth" book and movement. From Wordnik.com. [the Foresight Institute] Reference
Someone with a financial interest in the "green" economy & cap & trade, or a Global government "neo-Malthusian" like 0bama's "science advisor". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I'll just note that they, like the Marxists, the Malthusians, and the neo-Malthusian global warming alarmists, see our doom written in the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Antiwar.com Original] Reference
She aspired not only to cabaret singing, but also became a zealous pro-abortion activist as a result of her neo-Malthusian fears of over-population. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The neo-Malthusian movement in Great Britain with its history of undaunted bravery, came to our support; and I had the comfort of knowing that the finest minds of. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
His choice of Harvard professor and self-styled "neo-Malthusian" John Holdren as "science czar" provides the latest and perhaps most troubling example of just how bad America really muffed it last November. From Wordnik.com. [ChronWatch - Articles] Reference
However, how can CenPEG & others succeed when few recognize - much less have solutions for - the intentional, neo-Malthusian, neo-Luddite, Back-to-the-Stone-Age strategies of those who seek continued control of our nation and our people?. From Wordnik.com. [PinoyPress] Reference
It was John D. Rockefeller III, a life-long advocate of eugenics, who used his "tax free" foundation money to initiate the population reduction neo-Malthusian movement through his private Population Council in New York beginning in the 1950's. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
The neo-Malthusian movement in Great Britain with its history of undaunted bravery, came to our support; and I had the comfort of knowing that the finest minds of England did not hesitate a moment in the expression of their sympathy and support. From Wordnik.com. [Reasoned Audacity] Reference
Marxian social critics, many religious fundamentalists, and most development economists are at one in believing that neo-Malthusian claims about the scarcity of resources are groundless; and that a mix of moral regeneration, institutional reform, and technological innovation can overcome natural limits to growth. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
"neo-Malthusian" literature, focused public attention on the possibility of birth control, and gradually brought a knowledge of the means of contraception within reach of many. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
As you can see in his confirmation hearing in the Senate, he's a smart and articulate scientist, and says he has abandoned some of his previous neo-Malthusian stances, like his support for "population control measures" and his belief that 280 million Americans would likely be "too many." post on John P. Holdren's appointment as presidential science advisor prompted complaints that I was making too much of Dr. Holdren's loss of a bet to the economist Julian Simon about the price of some metals. From Wordnik.com. [TierneyLab] Reference
Thus, the success or failure of human ecologies depends chiefly on the factor of scientific progress, as that progress is embedded in influence and effect through increase of the physical productive powers of labor, as this occurs through realization of discoveries of fundamental scientific principles which are expressed as upward-directed changes in the culture of societies as a whole, or, on the contrary, in the relative cultural stagnation, stagnation of practices by component portions, more or less "neo-Malthusian" rabble among that culture's population. From Wordnik.com. [LaRouche's Latest] Reference
They concluded, "On these points, we find ourselves firmly in the neo-Malthusian camp" (p. Economist Thomas Malthus is one of the most literally anti-human theorists in human history. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It's tempting to be neo-Malthusian about Derry. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
(23) More recently, Soule has again worked closely with another leading neo-Malthusian, as in 1991 he helped found Dave Foreman -- an environmentalist perhaps most famous for founding the Deep Ecology-inspired activist group Earth First!. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"neo-Malthusian.". From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
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