{"id":572330,"date":"2021-06-23T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572330"},"modified":"2021-06-23T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:36:50","slug":"stop-at-two-biden-blm-nominee-argued-for-population-control-in-graduate-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-at-two-biden-blm-nominee-argued-for-population-control-in-graduate-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop At Two\u2019: Biden BLM Nominee Argued For Population Control In Graduate Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-at-two-biden-blm-nominee-argued-for-population-control-in-graduate-thesis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management advocated for population control in her 1992 graduate thesis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tracy Stone-Manning produced a magazine advertisement for her thesis that called a shirtless American baby an \u201cenvironmental hazard.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhen we have children, the planet feels it more. Do the truly smart thing. Stop at one or two kids,\u201d Stone-Manning wrote in her thesis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiple high-ranking Republican Senators have called for Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination to be revoked following Daily Caller News Foundation reporting of her involvement in a 1989 \u201ceco-terrorism\u201d case that led to the conviction of her former roommate and friend.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning, advocated for population control in her 1992 graduate thesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe origin of our abuses is us. If there were fewer of us, we would have less impact,\u201d Stone-Manning wrote in her <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.umt.edu\/etd\/2734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thesis<\/a>. \u201cWe must consume less, and more importantly, we must breed fewer consuming humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning also argued in her thesis that livestock grazing on public land is \u201cdestroying the West.\u201d If confirmed by the Senate to lead the BLM, Stone-Manning would control an agency that manages livestock grazing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/programs\/natural-resources\/rangelands-and-grazing\/livestock-grazing\">155 million acres<\/a> of public lands.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning\u2019s thesis was centered around eight advertisements she created to bring attention to issues of overpopulation, overgrazing, the corporate timber industry and an 1872 mining law. She argued that the environmental movement \u201cdesperately needs to use advertising\u2019s ubiquitous power if it is to capture mainstream America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first advertisement featured in the paper was a picture of a shirtless American baby with the headline: \u201cCan you find the environmental hazard in this photo?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7221541\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7221541\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7221541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard.jpg 633w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard-92x120.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard-476x620-1.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard-768x1000-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard-1536x2001-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/environmental-hazard-2048x2669-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7221541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Stone-Manning arguing that American babies are environmental hazards in her 1992 graduate thesis. (screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right, it\u2019s the cute baby,\u201d Stone-Manning\u2019s advertisement read under the picture. \u201cAmericans believe that overpopulation is only a problem somewhere else in the world. But it\u2019s a problem here too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe earth is only so big, and we can tap into it only so often. In America, we tap in often and hard,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhen we overpopulate, the earth notices it more. Stop at two. It could be the best thing you do for the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning also wrote a script for a 30-second television ad featuring an American woman drinking coffee in a \u201cyuppie home\u201d thinking to herself about having a third child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it would be my third baby, but there\u2019s not a population problem here like in Africa or India \u2026 and besides, smart people like Bob and me should be the people having kids,\u201d the woman said in Stone-Manning\u2019s script.<\/p>\n<p>The script then cuts to a montage featuring footage of smokestacks, dams, traffic jams and overflowing landfills with a female voiceover stating: \u201cA child born in America will burn 499 times more energy than a child born in Ethiopia. And each year, Americans add 2 million energy-eating humans to the earth. We consume one quarter of all the world\u2019s resources, simply by living as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have children, the planet feels it more,\u201d the script states. \u201cDo the truly smart thing. Stop at one or two kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7221566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7221566\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7221566 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script.jpg 584w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script-620x831-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script-768x1029-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script-1536x2059-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-overpopulation-script-2048x2745-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7221566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Stone-Manning\u2019s 30-second television advertisement script against overpopulation. (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stone-Manning wrote that she targeted the ads towards men and women planning their families and designed them to \u201ctug at the root of many of our environmental horrors, overpopulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is a simple one,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHarshly, the ads say that the earth can\u2019t afford Americans. More softly, they ask people to think about how their family planning choices affect the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning also created advertisements calling attention to overgrazing on public lands. She featured a print advertisement in her thesis saying that people would \u201chave a cow\u201d if they saw what grazing does to public lands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is overgrazed. Most likely, the grasses won\u2019t grow back, because the topsoil took flight,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWorse still, the government encourages this destruction. it charges ranchers under $2 a month to graze each cow and its calf on public land \u2014 your land.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7221575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7221575\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7221575 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad.jpg 538w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad-620x851-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad-768x1054-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad-1536x2109-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/have-a-cow-ad-2048x2813-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7221575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Stone-Manning\u2019s \u201cyou\u2019d have a cow\u201d advertisement. (screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stone-Manning wrote that the eight advertisements she made for her thesis were designed to be \u201cironic and shocking, because irony and shock have value. They stop readers and viewers, making them pay attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House and BLM did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Republican opposition to Stone-Manning\u2019s confirmation has grown considerably in recent weeks following reports by the Daily Caller News Foundation and other outlets about her involvement in a 1989 tree spiking incident. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/tracy-stone-manning-tree-spiking-bureau-land-management\/\">(RELATED: Biden Nominee Was Involved In \u2018Eco-Terrorism\u2019 Case, Resulted In College Roommate\u2019s Conviction, Prison Sentence)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in writing in May that she had never been the target of a federal criminal investigation, but numerous news reports, accounts of federal law enforcement officials and statements from Stone-Manning herself at the time of the tree-spiking incident and subsequent criminal trial strongly suggest she was a target of the federal government\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning received legal immunity to testify in the 1993 criminal trial over the matter that she sent an anonymous and threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that a local forest had been sabotaged with tree spikes. Her testimony led to the conviction of a man she identified as her former roommate and friend.<\/p>\n<p>Tree spiking, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/local\/1990\/03\/05\/tree-spiking-an-eco-terrorist-tactic\/a400944c-a3a0-4c03-ab99-afada6f44e7a\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/news\/local\/counties\/orange-county\/article212658729.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news outlets<\/a> have described as an \u201ceco-terrorism\u201d tactic, is a form of sabotage in which metal spikes are nailed into trees to make them unsafe to log. If gone unnoticed, tree spikes can cause serious injuries for workers.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.umt.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=9226&#038;context=studentnewspaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montana Kaimin<\/a>\u00a0reported in October 1989 that Stone-Manning was among the seven individuals who were served with subpoenas and forced to provide fingerprints, palm prints, handwriting samples and hair samples to a federal grand jury investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning herself was quoted in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1314&#038;dat=19900805&#038;id=3tRYAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=hfADAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=7080,2581399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1990 news article<\/a> expressing her anger at the \u201cdegrading\u201d experience the FBI subjected her to during their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Protect the Public\u2019s Trust, a government watchdog group, filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectpublicstrust.org\/federal-watchdog-requests-investigation-of-false-statements-to-congress\/\">complaint<\/a> on Tuesday with the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia demanding an investigation into whether Stone-Manning violated federal law by providing false testimony to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn answering the committee\u2019s official questionnaire, Ms. Stone-Manning appears to have knowingly and willfully concealed or covered up a material fact in order to deceive the U.S. Senate and the American public about the true nature of her involvement in an eco-terrorism case,\u201d the watchdog group wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectpublicstrust.org\/federal-watchdog-requests-investigation-of-false-statements-to-congress\/\">statement<\/a>. \u201cShe was granted immunity for her testimony in the case that resulted in at least one individual serving prison time. The facts, including as revealed by a U.S. Attorney and Ms. Stone-Manning\u2019s previous assertions, warrant a full investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Republican senators have accused Stone-Manning of providing false answers to the committee in regards to her involvement in the tree spiking incident and called for her nomination to be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/john-barrasso-tracy-stone-manning-biden-withdraw-nomination\/\">John Barrasso<\/a> of Wyoming, called on Biden last week to withdraw Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination for intentionally deceiving the committee about her involvement in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1063735585\">E&#038;E News<\/a> on Tuesday that Stone-Manning is a \u201cbad nominee who should be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that you would go pound some of these nails into trees seems disqualifying on a lot of levels, and I suspect that there won\u2019t be many on our side who think that she\u2019s a good nominee,\u201d Thune told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford also accused Stone-Manning of \u201cgiving false answers to our questions,\u201d according to E&#038;E News.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan also called on Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination to be revoked over her involvement in the tree-spiking incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is something that should be very simple for all of us,\u201d he said on the floor of the Senate on Monday, according to E&#038;E News. \u201cNo matter how young, no matter how naive, the director of the Bureau of Land Management for the United States of America should not \u2014 and I repeat, should not \u2014 have ever been involved in eco-terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski also told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/eenewspm\/2021\/06\/23\/stories\/1063735653\">reporters<\/a> Wednesday she will not vote in favor of Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning has also faced criticism from her own side of the political aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Former BLM Director Bob Abbey, who led the agency during most of former President Barack Obama\u2019s first term, said Stone-Manning\u2019s involvement in the eco-terrorism case is disqualifying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBLM needs a really strong leader,\u201d Abbey <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/bob-abbey-tracy-stone-manning-disqualify\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cTo put someone in that position that has this type of resume will just bring needless controversy that is not good for the agency or for the public lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House remained supportive of Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination amid the blowback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracy Stone-Manning is a dedicated public servant who has years of experience and a proven track record of finding solutions and common ground when it comes to our public lands and waters,\u201d the White House said in a statement Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-backs-tracy-stone-manning-gop-nomination-withdrawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Fox News. \u201cShe is exceptionally qualified to be the next Director of the Bureau of Land Management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradonewsline.com\/2021\/06\/23\/murkowski-to-oppose-stone-manning-nomination-while-tester-works-to-keep-support-among-dems\/\">vote<\/a> for Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management advocated for population control in her 1992 graduate thesis. 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