Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 1, 2009

Nina Fedoroff has been the chief science advisor to the Secretary of State since 2007.

One purpose of the State Department is to identify potential threats to our country and deal with them through diplomacy.

Ms. Fedoroff brings an interesting perspective to that task: She believes that people ? all people everywhere ? are a potentially lethal threat.

In an interview with the BBC, Fedoroff declared: ?There are probably already too many people on the planet.? She insists that the human population has already exceeded ?the limits of sustainability.?

Fedoroff?s view ? namely, that people are humanity?s greatest threat, as it were ? is typical of those who consider human beings primarily as consumers, rather than producers. The challenges of food and energy production can easily be met if human ingenuity is unshackled from statist controls.

There?s genuine irony in the fact that population control advocates never consider themselves to be part of the surplus.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.