Friday, April 03, 2009

Decreasing the Surplus Population

The last time that Britain’s population was cut in half was the 14th century. The cause was the Black Death.

Seven centuries later, a leading British environmentalist is urging a similar decrease in what Ebenezer Scrooge famously called “the surplus population.” Only this time, he’s asking for volunteers.


In February, Jonathan Porritt, the chairman of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission, said that couples with more than two children were placing an “‘irresponsible’ burden of the environment.”


He accused his fellow environmentalists of “betraying the interests of [their] members” by not telling people to be responsible for “their total environmental footprint.”


Not surprisingly, Porritt’s comments didn’t sit very well with a lot of Britons. But he’s convinced, as he wrote on his website, that “logic” and “sound evidence” are on his side.


So, six weeks later, he upped the ante: he declared that the UK must cut its population from its current 61 million to 30 million “if it is to build a sustainable society.”


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1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is reminiscent of what University of Austen biology profesor Eric Pianka said in a lecture a few years ago, when he stated that it would be good to have genes introduced that would turn off our ability to reproduce and then we would have to pay money in order to take a pill to turn on the ability to have children. He said that humans were selfishly reproducing like mad and that scientists should devise ways to drastically slash the population. Of course this has always been the pet obsession of the Bilderberg group, a group comprised of the heads of all major corporations, military leaders, American politicians, European royalty and CEO´s of the world´s major banks, who meet every year under cloak and dagger secrecy to plan for the future of our world. One of their members, the duke of Edinborough, Prince Philip, may have spoken for them all when he wrote that, ¨In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.¨ One wonders if such things as the AIDS epidemic are really such accidents coming out of Fort Detrik Marryland.

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