Overpopulation Chic: Stubborn Americans Averse to Controls on 'Right to Bear Arms Or Children'

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Mireya Navarro: "As recently as the 1970s, the subject of population control was less controversial, partly because the baby boom years had given rise to concerns about scarcity of resources, some population experts and environmentalists said. Then came China's coercive one-child policy and a rise in social conservatism in the United States, combined with the country's aversion to anything perceived as restricting individual freedoms, be it the right to bear arms or children."

Clay Waters

New York Times reporter Mireya Navarro in Tuesday's edition wrote sympathetically about the struggle of an environmental group 'breaking the taboo' of discussing overpopulation in 'Breaking a Long Silence On Population Control.' Such groups had it easier in the 1970s, Navarro wrote, before the rise of 'social conservatism' and America's 'aversion to anything perceived as restricting individual freedoms, be it the right to b

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Overpopulation Chic: Stubborn Americans Averse to Controls on 'Right to Bear Arms Or Children'