
Fifty years ago last week, a government report lived up to the old adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
On March 27, 1972, a document known to history as the “Rockefeller Commission Report on Population and the American Future,” called for zero population growth in America as a means to save the world. While we have no reason to doubt that those behind the document had “good intentions,” history has proven this paper a high mark of state-sponsored hubris. Not only did its proposed solutions make things worse instead of better, but it set a dark precedent for terrible crimes against humanity…