Ehrlich's legacy

SciFi writer Sarah Hoyt has an essay on elite planners trying to run the lives of ordinary people: and notes that people are not widgets to be bossed around.

And she brings up the way the elites loved Ehrlich's ideas, which would limit the children to save the planet.

what actually allowed Ehrlich to do harm was this idea — which the poor man (I’m convinced he has not idea how toxic he sounds) above echoes so exactly: the idea that governments CAN AND SHOULD determine how the people of the nation should live: how many people should be born, how many die, what’s “sustainable”, what they can eat, what they can’t, how much they should exercise, what type of work they should do, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum and ad vomitus.

just like the west is ignorant of China's cultural revolution when students embrace the cancel culture, because the only film that showed what happens when the cancel culture idiots get in charge was the Three Body problem, so too, if you want to see how Ehrlich's ideas were implemented by China, you need to read Mo Yan's novvel Frog: about forced abortions.

No I don't know of anywhere to download it for free . And most reviewers seem to concentrate on the main character and don't get horrified that she not only does forced abortions, but she searches out women who try to hide their pregnancy and aborts them: And in the book, two of these women die because of this.

Presumably the reviewers didn't get upset at these deaths, but concentrate on things like character development. Sigh.