The White House Does Damage Control After Kamala Harris Claims ‘Reducing Population’ is Needed to Fight Climate Change

Kamala Harris made an interesting remark during a speech on the purportedly devastating effects of climate change on Friday.

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water,” she said to applause.

The White House has already “corrected” the transcript of the speech by claiming that Harris meant to say “pollution.”

But Harris did not correct herself during her speech, and the audience applauded her message apparently without bridling at the de-population message.

Kamala Harris’s remarks, whether scripted or unscripted, do reflect a segment of the climate change activist community’s views on the matter.

In 2019, more than 11,000 “experts” signed an emergency declaration warning that energy, food and reproduction must “change immediately,” according to Bloomberg News.

Kathleen Mogelgaard, a consultant on population dynamics and climate change and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, told the Canadian site CBC News that population does play a role in climate change.

“It is a very complicated, multifaceted relationship. Population issues certainly are an important dimension of how society will unfold, how society will be able to cope with this crisis over the course of this century,” said Mogelgaard.

“But it’s not a silver bullet, and it’s certainly not the main cause of climate change. And fully addressing population growth is not, on its own, going to be able to solve the climate crisis. But it is an important piece of the puzzle,” she added.

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