But there are insidious, darker reasons as well. Buried deep in NSSM 200 is the real motive behind the U.S. support of population suppression in developing countries. It argues that the United States will need increased amounts of raw supplies in the future - flowing uninterruptedly from the third world. In other words, control the other country's population so that we can get uninterrupted supplies for our consumption. Yet another reason for the support of population control is the malignant misanthropy of those on the Left.
Human beings are the problem, according to population people and environmentalists alike.
There should be fewer of us, according to them. Likewise, when third world women are kept from childbearing, or when infants are murdered in China, one suspects that the fanatical feminists are not really too sorry about it. Decreasing the surplus population, you know. Few realize that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a rabid eugenicist and an early advocate of Hitler's Aryan breeding plan. At heart, it underlies population control and radical environmentalism both.