As Van Jones exits stage Far Left, science “czar” and longtime moonbat — which, as in the case of Jones, was something well known before his selection and surely a reason for, not an impediment to, that selection — John Holdren strolls before the camera.

RealClearPolitics provides this clip of Holdren in Bali, transcribing it as follows:

Q: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it?Obama Science Czar John Holdren: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.

Of course, as CEI colleague William Yeatman revealed over and over and over and over again before Holdren’s confirmation, this is absolutely nothing compared to his written record espousing absolutely hysterical Malthusian environmentalism — all the way down to assuring us the Constitiution need not be amended for the state to slyly begin sterilizing us to address the overpopulation emergency. The Left can call us nuts for drawing attention to these utterly bizarre people and their positions all they want. We know where the real fruitcake lies.

It just seems that there are times for the public and lawmakers to get interested in these things, and they move at their own pace.