In a 2001 article entitled "The Energy Climate Challenge: Issues for the New U.S. Administration," Holdren noted world population estimates for 2100 ranged between 7 billion to 11 billion people.
He argued it was important to strive for "a result near the low end of these possibilities" because the difference between these two figures in terms of the ease or difficulty of achieving a low-carbon-emission future "is immense."
To make sure global population remained near the low end of the 2100 estimates, Holdren once again returned to the theme of manipulating human fertility through a variety of methods, including "government incentives for small families."
As WND previously reported , a worldwide scientific agenda is emerging to link global population growth with global warming, arguing that climate change is such a severe crisis that the U.S. must participate in a United Nations mandate to implement global birth control to reduce carbon emissions.
A series of papers recently published by the Royal Society in Great Britain and by the United Nations have directly made the link between global population growth and anthropomorphic, or man-made global warming.
The Economist summed up the current argument , writing on Monday, "A world with fewer people would emit less greenhouse gas."
