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Packard stated or implied several times throughout his writings that he was a practicing Christian. In ''The Hidden Persuaders'' and ''The Waste Makers'' he occasionally refers to sermons he heard at church, and how they relate to the issues at hand. In ''The Hidden Persuaders'', he even names his pastor (Loring Chase) and his church (Congregation Church in New Canaan, Connecticut).

Packard stated or implied several times throughout his writings that he was a practicing Christian. In ''The Hidden Persuaders'' and ''The Waste Makers'' he occasionally refers to sermons he heard at church, and how they relate to the issues at hand. In ''The Hidden Persuaders'', he even names his pastor (Loring Chase) and his church (Congregation Church in New Canaan, Connecticut).

Packard's politics would appear slightly liberal. In ''The Waste Makers'', he addresses two controversial issues, resource depletion and population control, in much more reasonable terms than some of his liberal contemporaries (e.g. [[Paul Ehrlich]]). He suggested that [[abortion]] was a viable means of population control, but he also cited [[Catholic]] [[Ireland]]'s non-abortion solution to the population problem as a good idea: they simply married at a later age.<ref>It is notable that this implied a very small number of teen pregnancies or pregnancies out of wedlock.</ref> While discussing resource depletion, Packard notes that while major sources of ore may be running out, there is a virtually infinite supply of metals such as copper in everyday rocks, which could conceivably be processed for ore recovery if the major ore sources ran out.  

Packard's politics would appear slightly liberal. In ''The Waste Makers'', he addresses two controversial issues, resource depletion and population control, in much more reasonable terms than some of his liberal contemporaries (e.g. [[Paul Ehrlich]]). He suggested that [[abortion]] was a viable means of population control, but he also cited [[Catholic]] [[Ireland]]'s non-abortion solution to the population problem as a good idea: they simply married at a later age.<ref>It is notable that this implied a very small number of teen pregnancies or pregnancies out of wedlock.</ref> While discussing resource depletion, Packard notes that while major sources of ore may be running out, there is a virtually infinite supply of metals such as copper in everyday rocks, which could conceivably be processed for ore recovery.  

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