Our Current US Science Czar...

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If y'all have been wondering why the US relevence in science and technology world is STILL on the decline --- you might start at looking at the Counsel that this Prez has chosen as his "science czar"..

Holdren is co-author with 70 eco-radicals Paul and Ann Ehrlich on several books and a close colleague. He has a long track of outrageous and controversial fringe views about eco-economics and population and the environment. Not much of a GENERAL track record that would make him USEFUL in advising how to leverage to BUILD an economy. Especially with views like this one..

WH Science Czar Says He Would Use ?Free Market? to ?De-Develop the United States? | NewsBusters


"A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States," Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich in the "recommendations" concluding their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.

"De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation," Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.

"Resources must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries," Holdren and his co-authors wrote. "This effort must be largely political, especially with regard to our overexploitation of world resources, but the campaign should be strongly supplemented by legal and boycott action against polluters and others whose activities damage the environment. The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being."

CNSNews.com asked Holdren about this passage on Tuesday after he participated in an Environmental Protection Agency forum celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act.

CNSNews.com asked: "You wrote ‘a massive campaign must be launched to restore a high quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States' in your book Human Ecology. Could you explain what you meant by de-develop the United States?"

Holdren responded: "What we meant by that was stopping the kinds of activities that are destroying the environment and replacing them with activities that would produce both prosperity and environmental quality. Thanks a lot."

CNSNews.com then asked: "And how do you plan on implementing that?"

"Through the free market economy," Holdren said.

CNSNews.com also asked Holdren to comment on the declaration he made in 1995 along with co-authors Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily of Stanford University that mankind needed to "face up" to "a world of zero net physical growth" that would require reductions in consumption.

Read more: WH Science Czar Says He Would Use ?Free Market? to ?De-Develop the United States? | NewsBusters

There's no light at the end of this tunnel..

Uh ya. America's lousy showing in global test scores didn't begin until the current administration.

 

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We'd be better off spending more of our gdp on science instead of idiotic nation building. This is just reality.

 

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If y'all have been wondering why the US relevence in science and technology world is STILL on the decline --- you might start at looking at the Counsel that this Prez has chosen as his "science czar"..

Holdren is co-author with 70 eco-radicals Paul and Ann Ehrlich on several books and a close colleague. He has a long track of outrageous and controversial fringe views about eco-economics and population and the environment. Not much of a GENERAL track record that would make him USEFUL in advising how to leverage to BUILD an economy. Especially with views like this one..

WH Science Czar Says He Would Use ?Free Market? to ?De-Develop the United States? | NewsBusters


"A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States," Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich in the "recommendations" concluding their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.

"De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation," Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.

"Resources must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries," Holdren and his co-authors wrote. "This effort must be largely political, especially with regard to our overexploitation of world resources, but the campaign should be strongly supplemented by legal and boycott action against polluters and others whose activities damage the environment. The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being."

CNSNews.com asked Holdren about this passage on Tuesday after he participated in an Environmental Protection Agency forum celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act.

CNSNews.com asked: "You wrote ‘a massive campaign must be launched to restore a high quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States' in your book Human Ecology. Could you explain what you meant by de-develop the United States?"

Holdren responded: "What we meant by that was stopping the kinds of activities that are destroying the environment and replacing them with activities that would produce both prosperity and environmental quality. Thanks a lot."

CNSNews.com then asked: "And how do you plan on implementing that?"

"Through the free market economy," Holdren said.

CNSNews.com also asked Holdren to comment on the declaration he made in 1995 along with co-authors Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily of Stanford University that mankind needed to "face up" to "a world of zero net physical growth" that would require reductions in consumption.

Read more: WH Science Czar Says He Would Use ?Free Market? to ?De-Develop the United States? | NewsBusters

There's no light at the end of this tunnel..

Uh ya. America's lousy showing in global test scores didn't begin until the current administration.

What we teach and how we teach would be the Education Secretary or Czar.. THIS GUY is suppose to position Science in a way that MOTIVATES kids to sign up for the jobs that will pay well.. From his work in the 70s --- I'd say the Science Czar thinks science is the tool of devil if it's used to promote commercial products or expand the economy..

 

[ScienceRocks]

If y'all have been wondering why the US relevence in science and technology world is STILL on the decline --- you might start at looking at the Counsel that this Prez has chosen as his "science czar"..

Holdren is co-author with 70 eco-radicals Paul and Ann Ehrlich on several books and a close colleague. He has a long track of outrageous and controversial fringe views about eco-economics and population and the environment. Not much of a GENERAL track record that would make him USEFUL in advising how to leverage to BUILD an economy. Especially with views like this one..



There's no light at the end of this tunnel..

Uh ya. America's lousy showing in global test scores didn't begin until the current administration.

What we teach and how we teach would be the Education Secretary or Czar.. THIS GUY is suppose to position Science in a way that MOTIVATES kids to sign up for the jobs that will pay well.. From his work in the 70s --- I'd say the Science Czar thinks science is the tool of devil if it's used to promote commercial products or expand the economy..

This is why I repeat my belief that both extremes are just plain old nuts. capitalism is the only system that can make(input) wealth and expand our living standards. Our science czar should be someone that understands this and works to better our nation...Our educational system has been taken over by the extreme on the left that hates capitalism and doesn't really want to advance humanity. Quite the opposite as they believe humanity is a parasite that needs to be limited.

I am also against this.