Two children should be limit, says green guru

[Mr. T]

Two children should be limit, says green guru

 

COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.

 

Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population.

 

A report by the commission, to be published next month, will say that governments must reduce population growth through better family planning.

 

“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate,” Porritt said.

 

“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”

 

The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his or her lifetime, burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2½ acres of old-growth oak woodland - an area the size of Trafalgar Square.

 

The British population, now 61m, will pass 70m by 2028, the Office for National Statistics says. The fertility rate for women born outside Britain is estimated to be 2.5, compared with 1.7 for those born here. The global population of 6.7 billion is expected to rise to 9.2 billion by 2050.

 

Porritt, who has two children, intends to persuade environmental pressure groups to make population a focus of campaigning.

 

“Many organisations think it is not part of their business. My mission with the Friends of the Earth and the Greenpeaces of this world is to say: ‘You are betraying the interests of your members by refusing to address population issues and you are doing it for the wrong reasons because you think it is too controversial,” he said.

 

Porritt, a former chairman of the Green party, says the government must improve family planning, even if it means shifting money from curing illness to increasing contraception and abortion.

 

He said: “We still have one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in Europe and we still have relatively high levels of pregnancies going to birth, often among women who are not convinced they want to become mothers.

 

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_an...icle5627634.ece

[calfoxwc]

And yet one more government interference in the family, another way to fine taxpayers for not

being perfectly acceptable... to the liberal, domineering government.

[Westside Steve]

We need fewer unwanted pregnancies and the overpopulation of the earth is a HUGE and serious problem on too many levels to list. That's a simple fact. How you deal with it is the discussion.

 

 

You think destitute billions in China Africa India Watts etc are reproducing at rat-like rates due to lack of abortions??

Come on.......

 

WSS

 

[osusev]

Steve do you ever actually understand or research your posts? China..... huge population controls for quite a long time.

 

This is not a subject most people dont want to address but it is an absolute fact on how much the earth can sustain. Its going to happen either thru mass starvation and death or we legislate it eventually.

[Guest mz.]

Steve do you ever actually understand or research your posts?

 

Resident Cynic don't need to do no research.

 

Wink wink.

 

[Mr. T]

Coming from a poor backround and wanting a better life for my child than I had my wife and I quit at 1.

She never wanted for anything and is now a junior in college.

Pumping out kids just because you can doesnt mean you should.

 

 

That is a wise choice on your part, your one child should have plenty of opportunities. I feel this is a choice to be made by parents and not by Government mandates. Look at China and there 1 child policy, and look at all of the forced abortions in their country. It is sad.

 

Government needs to stay out of creating laws and forcing them upon families.

[Westside Steve]

Steve do you ever actually understand or research your posts? China..... huge population controls for quite a long time.

 

Yes, you pompous jagoff.

 

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/ChinaF...a/pop/pop_6.htm

 

Again is the population growth due to a lack of abortion?

 

This is not a subject most people dont want to address but it is an absolute fact on how much the earth can sustain. Its going to happen either thru mass starvation and death or we legislate it eventually.

 

Then it's all good.

We actually were talking abortion, simpleton.

(And Obammy's stupid "anti warming"

crap.)

WSS