Posted on 02/01/2009 11:32:08 AM PST by GOPGuide
Couples who have more than two children are putting an 'irresponsible' burden on the environment, the Government's leading green advisor has warned.
Jonathon Porritt called on ministers to divert money away from curing illnesses towards contraception and abortion services to limit the country's population and help in the fight against global warming.
And he criticised fellow green campaigners for dodging the issue of population growth and its effect on the environment because it is too 'controversial'.
It came as Catholic bishops in England and Wales lambasted environmentalism as an ideology every bit as dangerous as communism.
In a booklet, they say worshippers should be deeply sceptical of claims the green movement makes on global warming.
Mr Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, which advises the Government on green matters, said he was due to publish a report in March calling on ministers to reduce population growth through better family planning.
'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,' he said.
Britain's population of 61 million is forecast to exceed 70 million by 2028. The birth rate is now at its highest for almost 30 years, largely because immigrant mothers have higher birth rates, and because teenage pregnancy rates are among the highest in Europe.
UK's abortion rate is already one of the highest in the western world - second only to the United States. The Optimum Population Trust, a campaign group of which Mr Porritt is a patron, says each baby born in Britain will, during his lifetime, burn the amount of carbon equivalent to two and a half acres of oak woodland - around the size of Trafalgar Square.
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Notice how liberal leftists think. Normal people have to stop reproducing, while they welcome uncivilized brutes into the country and pay them to reproduce.
The end goal is the end of Western Civilization.
And we got Russia's weather......
Coming to America..
Nancy Pelosi will concur except that AIDs related research must prosper.
How good are the chances that Brown will be taken down by his own party like Thatcher was?
Isn’t it interesting, that Nancy Pelosi made a comment one day, and all of a sudden, this is a new global idea whose time has come?
You can’t help but think these folks are part of the same network of global planners who are reviving an old tactic to subvert the Western masses.
The more things change...
Should be fun.
Wish I knew how to ping Mark Steyn. Oh well, I’m sure he knows this already anyway.
What about Muzies?
Please don't upset the Muslims, Mr. Greengenes! Just eliminate them.
1.3B less hateful, ungrateful, rapacious, murderous mouths to breed, would make Mother Gaea happy!
Beat me to it. Still, it will be interesting to see which impulse toward the destruction of Western civilization proves stronger among the left: multiculturalism or environmentalism.
Ping
Fixed it.
I’m sure he’s willing to bend the rules for Muslims. They’re allowed be breed like rabbits in polygamous marriages.
Let the Muslims populate the earth so they can destroy the rest of us. Good idea morons.
This is a classic example where again the Left hasn’t thought it all the way through.
Too bad the idiots don’t have the courage to limit the number of Muslims coming into the country.
This guy sounds like Pelosi.
Dude or dudette, not to stir it up but the west is a bit of the Black Knight to the Middle East’s Arthur when it comes to the procreation battle. I think, perhaps, we can find compromise on this topic and for the benefit of her majesty’s glory and your’s and my head.
It was never about limiting the reproduction rates of educated westerners. That’ been stuck somewhere around 2 for ever No, this political tactic has an entirely different purpose and it’s about damn time. Making as many boys as you can muster the strength to push out for the glory of martyrdom or some other reason anti-western is the mindset trying to be forceably horned in.
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