As CEO of a beer malting business, I can’t imagine (and he didn’t identify) what expertise Trent Clark has on demographic trends and concepts or on the interplay between population growth, health outcomes, and the environment. But that didn’t stop him from writing a poorly researched and much exaggerated piece about the organization where I’ve worked since 2007: Population Connection.
In “Zero Population Growth still not the answer,” Mr. Clark quotes a 2017 blog post I wrote, out of context, and took the irresponsible liberty of writing, “The website reports that “Zero Population” implied a goal of human extermination,” about this line in the blog post: “People who didn’t have a firm grasp on demographic terms thought Zero Population Growth meant that we were advocating for zero people.”
Given his intention to mislead readers, and the fact that he didn’t contact Population Connection for comment before submitting his screed for publication, we can infer that journalistic integrity is not a priority for Mr. Clark. I would expect, however, that any newspaper worth the paper it’s printed on would fact check submissions and contact organizations being defamed by prospective opinion authors. It is alarming that the Idaho State Journal failed to do either.
Supporting links:
https://populationconnection.org/
https://populationconnection.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-zpg/
Marian Starkey,
Washington, D.C.
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Just be honest and admit that you people are basically Bond villains trying to wipe out the world's population. You Bill Gates types are so
Arrogant that you think that only you have the
Right to life. You are the Margaret Sangers of our
Era....and there's nothing wrong with that, just don't try and paint yourselves as saviors of the earth.
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