this has been examined by matthew connelly a historian at columbia university in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impact of a. population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had a explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasn t done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents and would have even more poor children. this way of thinking also took hold in american politics in 1966 u.s. president lyndon b. johnson attached conditions for receiving development aid one of them being that recipient countries must reduce their population. it was a time of drought and starvation and india. and. the
this is been examined by matthew connelly a historian at columbia university in new york has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impacted a. population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had an explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasn t done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents would have even more poor children. this way of thinking also too cold in american politics in one thousand nine hundred sixty six u.s. president lyndon b. johnson attached conditions for receiving development aid one of them being that recipient countries must reduce their population. it was a time of drought and starvation and india. the
rockefeller but. they were people with influence and connections to the highest levels of the american government. there from day sion still continue to exist today the ford foundation the rockefeller foundation the population council. they triggered a rising tide of fear of a population explosion that soon also spread to other countries and they formed the head of worldwide measures taken to decimate the population of the impoverished. this is been examined by matthew connelly a historian at columbia university in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impacted a. population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had explosive mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if