The Old Red Is The New Green

Destroy America with green Fascism -- Redistributionism as the cure for American exceptionalism

This interview in 2007, conducted in the virtual-reality environment of Second Life, in which Holdren discusses his views on science and economics:




Transcript:

HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided.

Q: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it?

H: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.

Another crackpot, Obama's Science Adviser, Holdren. Another one of Holdren's greatest hits is talked about in this post -- "The Population Bomb" book, which turns out was a bust.