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Britain
UK population must fall to 30m, says Greenie
2009-03-24
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.

Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.

Porritt said: "Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure. Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact."
The greenies and VHE advocates always talk about reducing the population but never offer to go first to show us how it's done ...
Posted by:Steve White

#11  
Posted by: DMFD   2009-03-24 22:19  

#10   since Europeans and Americans have such a lopsided impact on the environment, the world would benefit more from reducing their populations than by making cuts in developing countries.

That one is easy: move the excess population to developing countries.

Posted by: trailing wife   2009-03-24 20:06  

#9  Anyone see the last episode of the "reimagined" (i.e. almost no sci fi) Battlestar Galactica?

They find earth and it is an environut's dream... 150000 years ago.. just a few thousand hunter gatherers who have no language.

No large predators to be seen... just herds of fluffy bunnies and antelope and pretty birdies...

The fleet of spaceships is sent into the Sun.

The humans decide against building a new city.

So the 40000 survivors go off walking in different directions with just the clothes on their back... "to grow crops"

No technology... back to sticks and mud.

Posted by: john frum   2009-03-24 18:14  

#8  Per wikipedia Jonathon Porritt has two daughters. That's not really compatible with population decline.
Posted by: Clort Elmath1772   2009-03-24 17:47  

#7  One child per family, y'all, just like in Red China...except they'll call it green.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2009-03-24 14:46  

#6  This will come to America soon under DICTATOR OBAMA. Boiling frog syndrome--if all the stuff Obama is going to do happened all at once no one would deal with it, but slowly . . . slowly . . . coupled with the "hit on all sides" policy changes he is putting in motion, and there is too much confusion, too much personal problems for people to react.


Posted by: ex-lib   2009-03-24 12:30  

#5  Eat the ruling class twits.
Posted by: ed   2009-03-24 09:54  

#4  One way flights back to Pakistan.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-03-24 09:05  

#3  Excaliber - lol! Today's world is no place for such a sane thought.
Posted by: Bill Croluper8091   2009-03-24 05:17  

#2  UK population must fall to 30m, says Greenie

Ok, let's engage in sucicide. You first!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-03-24 04:00  

#1  End all immigration.
Posted by: Excalibur   2009-03-24 02:25  

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