Henry Fairfield Osborn

Another important factor was a growing concern for the environment, resulting from the rise of a fossil-fuel-based economy, improved living conditions and increased life expectancy.

In 1948, two groundbreaking books by Fairfield Osborn Jr. and William Vogt, were published with a dire message.

The expanding global population would bring environmental disaster if not checked with birth control measures and global management of resources.

These ideas were spread with the help of conservation foundation, an organization founded by Osborne and Wacht in 1948 together with John D. Rockefeller's grandson, Lawrence Rockefeller, and funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Conservation Foundation would have a major influence on the scientific discussions about global warming in the 1960s.

It was environmentalism rooted in eugenics, which meant improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding.

In 1952, Lawrence's brother John and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Detlef Bronck, organized a conference on population problems in Williamsburg, attended by 33 hand-picked advocates of eugenics, including Fairfield Osborn Jr. and William Vogt.

Bronck was a key player in the American scientific community, and had an extensive network due to his position as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant.

Preface by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

European history has been written in terms of nationality and of language, but never before in terms of race.

Yet race has played a far larger part than either language or nationality in molding the destinies of men.

Section two of The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant.

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Preface to the second edition by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

History is repeating itself in America at the present time and incidentally is giving a convincing demonstration of the central thought in this volume, namely that heredity and racial predisposition are stronger and more stable than environment and education.