The White House broke out the blue pencil after Vice President Kamala Harris issued a call to “reduce population,” editing the official transcript to say “pollution,” although some conservatives saw it as a Freudian slip.
Ms. Harris told an audience at Coppin State University in Baltimore that the Biden administration’s goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2030 would benefit the environment and public health.
“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,” Ms. Harris said in the Friday speech.out “population” and replaced it with “pollution” in the online transcript, but not before the Republican National Committee posted the video clip on social media, spurring alarm on the right.Sen.
Calls for “zero population growth” surged on the left after the publication of the 1968 book “The Population Bomb” by environmentalist Paul Ehrlich, but the movement became associated with mass human rights abuses such as female infanticide after China adopted its “one-child policy” in 1979. The program officially ended in 2016 when China raised the limit to two babies, later increasing it to three over concerns about its aging population and shrinking workforce.
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