Bulldoggus

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An Essay on the Principle of Population- Thomas Malthus
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Dune- Frank Herbert
The Population Bomb- Paul R. Ehrlich
As OTL.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson
Nixonland: The Wild 4-Year Term of Richard Nixon- Rick Perlstein
#FeelTheMusk
Victory Over the Sun: How Tony Mazzocchi Fought for a Better Green Politics- Connor Kilpatrick
There's a Jacobin article by this name. This is the same as that except with a wistful overtone of "if only Green politics didn't devolve into this."
WaPo Editorial: "Building a Clean Environment", by Ronald Reagan (1/13/1976)
Green Libertarianism- Barry Goldwater
In the midst of Feeling the Musk, the hard right begins to get a little bit apocalyptic. Also, Musk is friendly with Unions and the Steel and Coal industries, and keeps Detroit competitive and Keynesianism working, so...
My Wild Campaign Ride- Frank Herbert
Environmental advisor to Ronnie! Not at fault for the later psychosis.
The Ecology Party Manifesto for the 1981 Election- Tony Whittaker and Edward Goldsmith
The OVP, The Greens, and the Battle for the Soul of Green Politics- Ralph Nader
Wanderer: David Icke, Ecology, the Liberals, and the UK's 8th Party System- Owen Jones
Meanwhile, Euro Greens end up on the right (OVP is an OTL party of Right Wing Greens in Germany).
Vanguard of Civilization: America's Role in Oranj Frei Staat, The Cape, Angola, Mozambique, Tswanalandt, and the Rhodesias- John Bolton
Those white settler states in Southern Africa? They develop an interest in the "prevention of overpopulation." And guess how that ends up.
Reason Magazine Special Issue: BIRTHRATE CRISIS (1985)
Those bastards did a Holocaust Denial issue in the 70's, so yeah. Think of this as an equivalent to TNR backing the Bell Curve.
Approaches to Population Control- John H. Tanton
To The Children I Can Never Have- Ta-Neishi Coates
A "pilot program" in certain parts of Baltimore on people picked up on misdemeanors. Coates is the only particularly eloquent victim of this, which means it all to often goes ignored.
Open Air Prisons: Life in the "Reservations" of Southern Africa- Steven Pienaar
These are concentration camps, pure and simple. Not in the Auchwitz sense, but in the Boer War sense, where you pen people in and let them die of neglect.
The Scorching of the Subcontinent- Pankaj Mishra
Population Bomb types have an unhealthy obsession with India. Some Cosmic-Brain in the Reagan Admin gets the bright idea of dealing with this by playing India and Pakistan off each other. Horror results.
LIARS!: How the Right Uses Sham "Global Warming" Science to Attack the Working Man- Steve Bannon
Sadly, Lefty!Bannon is mostly right here. And since the left doesn't believe in Global Warming and the Right uses it to genocide people who don't really cause it in the first place... TTL is fucked.
 
Well, I added in John Tanton, a truly deranged eugenicist and racist who was involved in Green Party politics, so I'll certainly give it a look!

Pat Moynihan? A red-blooded Democrat advocating for a welfare state and that we must provide aid to the 3rd world, of course. Same goes for all the NeoCons, who are TTL called "Neoliberals" and generally left on Econ, center on Social Issues, and interventionist.

Yeah, Tanton sounds interesting(in the not-entirely nice sense of that word), and would probably overlap a lot with Hardin. I mentioned Hardin because he's the one environmentalist-eugenicist I've always heard as linked with the GOP.

As for Moynihan, admittedly I only know his work on the black family second-hand, and I'm not really equipped to analyze the criticisms of it as paternalistic. Ta-Nehisi Coates summarizes his DPL's concerns as follows...

That price was clear to Moynihan. “The Negro family, battered and harassed by discrimination, injustice, and uprooting, is in the deepest trouble,” he wrote. “While many young Negroes are moving ahead to unprecedented levels of achievement, many more are falling further and further behind.” Out-of-wedlock births were on the rise, and with them, welfare dependency, while the unemployment rate among black men remained high. Moynihan believed that at the core of all these problems lay a black family structure mutated by white oppression:

"In essence, the Negro community has been forced into a matriarchal structure which, because it is so out of line with the rest of the American society, seriously retards the progress of the group as a whole, and imposes a crushing burden on the Negro male and, in consequence, on a great many Negro women as well."

Moynihan believed this matriarchal structure robbed black men of their birthright—“The very essence of the male animal, from the bantam rooster to the four-star general, is to strut,” he wrote—and deformed the black family and, consequently, the black community. In what would become the most famous passage in the report, Moynihan equated the black community with a diseased patient:

In a word, most Negro youth are in danger of being caught up in the tangle of pathology that affects their world, and probably a majority are so entrapped. Many of those who escape do so for one generation only: as things now are, their children may have to run the gauntlet all over again. That is not the least vicious aspect of the world that white America has made for the Negro.

Moynihan's litle foray into sociobiological rhetoric(strutting roosters etc) might rasie some eyebrows, but could probably just be written off as literary colour. As you say, his proferred solutions were an expanded welfare state, not coercion. If I'm reading Coates correctly(only had time to skim), he thinks that the government eventually "solved" the problems posited by Moynihan via mass incarceration.


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Population Bomb types have an unhealthy obsession with India

As in, for example...

Famine 1975!

India was indeed one of the countries that the Paddocks wanted to deprive of food aid, as part of their "triage". Without minimizing the serious problems that that country faces, it doesn't say much about their prognosticating skills that they viewed it as one of the most hopeless places in the world.

I once read an excerpt from that book in an anthology of population-bomb articles edited by Hardin. One of the Paddocks related a personal anecdote about his wife distributing food to impoverished Latin Americans as part of some American foriegn-aid effort. He threw in the obligatory whine about how "No one in that country gave America any credit for what we were doing for them".
 
Sex And Destiny

Germaine Greer's anti-malthusian tome from the early 80s(I mentioned this on another thread about right-wing population control).

The book almost reads like Alternate History, because it was written at a time when it was still possible to view the population-control movement as right-wing, and Greer quite easily attaches that label to many of the people who funded and supported the movement(of which she gives a pretty extensive history, at times bordering on the arcane). Written before the 1984 American election, and one wonders how aware, if at all, Greer was of the ascension of the Religious Right, along with it's effectively pro-fecund agenda. within the Republican Party.

Highly recommended, if you can find a copy.
 

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Moynihan's litle foray into sociobiological rhetoric(strutting roosters etc) might rasie some eyebrows, but could probably just be written off as literary colour. As you say, his proferred solutions were an expanded welfare state, not coercion. If I'm reading Coates correctly(only had time to skim), he thinks that the government eventually "solved" the problems posited by Moynihan via mass incarceration.
Moynihan was a man of great contradictions. He thought black people were of an inferior culture, but felt that was as a result of slavery and racism and that said inferiority could be fixed through social welfare programs. He definitely had a racist streak to him, but I cannot see him embracing eugenics by any stretch.
 
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