Kamala Harris Calls On The U.S. To ‘Reduce Population’

Vice President Kamala Harris faced a public backlash when she seemed to call for decreasing population to facilitate cleaner air and water during a speech at Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland. According to her office, who quickly looked to do damage control, the vice president was attempting say “pollution” instead. They even released a corrected version of her statement which emphasized that clean energy and electric vehicles would help cut down pollution.

Harris stated:

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,”

Watch the clip below:

This blunder follows another from earlier in the week when Harris attempted to elucidate artificial intelligence (AI) at a meeting with labor and civil rights leaders. In a less than eloquent explanation, she described AI as a “fancy thing” that’s essentially about machine learning, a definition which might have oversimplified a complex topic.

David Foster