“The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.”
— Paul R. Ehrlich, biologist and educator, and author of the best-selling book The Population Bomb
It's a bit 'eco-fascist' extreme, I know, but there's a certain droll wit to this quote that really appeals to me. And especially as it comes from a noted biologist and demographer who was warning of the dangers of population growth nearly fifty years ago.
Politically correct or gender-sensitised it may not be but...
Perhaps generations in the (not to distant) future will find this quote to have been grimly prescient?
Do you get my point?
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