In The Tank

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Justin Haskins, and Chris Talgo present episode 407 of the In The Tank Podcast. Kamala Harris' most recent gaff of suggesting the need to "reduce population" inspired the ITT crew to dedicate the entire episode to the legacy of population control. From the Eugenics movement of the 1940s-60s, to China's one child policy of the 80s and 90s, to modern day calls to save the planet, the authoritarian left has a long history of promoting this anti-human agenda.

PRIMARY TOPIC - POPULATION CONTROL: AN ANTI-HUMAN AGENDA
 
NYP - Kamala Harris says US must ‘reduce population’ to fight climate change in latest gaffe
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/kamala-harris-says-us-must-reduce-population-to-fight-climate-change-in-latest-gaffe/
 
 
1940s - 1960s: Eugenics Movement
 
Journal of Economic Perspectives - Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf
 
UoM - Charles Darwin's Descent of Man
https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/controlling-heredity/origins/darwin#:~:text=In%20The%20Descent%20of%20Man,a%20vigorous%20state%20of%20health.
 
 
1970s - 1990s: China's One-Child Policy
 
Smithsonian Magazine - The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/
 
(Documentary) One Child Nation
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/one-child-nation/
 
Britannica - one-child policy
https://www.britannica.com/topic/one-child-policy
 
(Tweet) Paul Ehrlich - lamenting the end of China's one-child policy
https://twitter.com/PaulREhrlich/status/659814941633986560
 
 
Environmental Movement - Zero Population Growth
 
Time Magazine - Here's When Americans Really Started to Panic About Overpopulation
https://time.com/4388565/zero-population-growth-world-population-day-2016/
 
(Report) Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24870306
 
The Guardian - Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez right to ask if the climate means we should have fewer children?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/feb/27/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-right-to-ask-if-the-climate-means-we-should-have-fewer-children
 
(letter) World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806

Creators and Guests

Host
Donald Kendal
Donald Kendal is a research fellow for The Heartland's Socialism Research Center, host of Heartland's In the Tank Podcast and Stopping Socialism TV, and a talented graphic designer.
Host
Jim Lakely
Jim Lakely is the Vice President and Director of Communications of The Heartland Institute.
Guest
Justin T. Haskins
Justin Haskins is the director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute.

What is In The Tank?

The weekly flagship podcast from The Heartland Institute features in-depth policy discussions connected to current news. Host Donald Kendal leads the discussion with the usual crew of Heartland Institute Vice President Jim Lakely, Socialism Research Center “Commissar” Justin Haskins, Editorial Director Chris Talgo, and others at this national free-market think tank. The entertaining and informative discussions often hit topics such as the environment, energy policy, Big Tech censorship, the troubling rise of socialism, globalism, health care, education, that state of freedom in America and around the world, and much more.

This podcast is also available as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast, the “firehose” of all the organization’s podcasts that take deep and entertaining dives into public policy.