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UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt [if it is to build a sustainable society.....]
Times Online ^
Posted on 03/22/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt Jonathan Leake and Brendan Montague
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Browns leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.
Porritts call will come at this weeks 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.
Population growth is one of the most politically sensitive environmental problems. The issues it raises, including religion, culture and immigration policy, have proved too toxic for most green groups.
However, Porritt is winning scientific backing. Professor Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum, will use the OPT conference, to be held at the Royal Statistical Society, to warn that population growth could help derail attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Rapley, who formerly ran the British Antarctic Survey, said humanity was emitting the equivalent of 50 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
We have to cut this by 80%, and population growth is going to make that much harder, he said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; deathcultivation; globalwarming; immigration; porritt
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator
To: Sub-Driver
A) It’s an admission that there is no way they can achieve their promised 2050 emissions cuts without turning Britain into stone age New Guinea. So, if you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river.
B) I’d love to know the precise methodology they used to calculate this figure
but I bet there are computer models involved. Sorry, sir, no children for you—see, this printout says so.
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:55:52 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
To: Sub-Driver
Well Jonathan, put your money where your mouth is.
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posted on
03/23/2009 9:56:48 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: Sub-Driver
JONATHON PORRITT, Mr. JONATHON PORRITT, please report to the showers for delousing.
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posted on
03/23/2009 6:34:06 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Sub-Driver
This is the reason liberals embrace homosexuality and abortion. Unfortunately, they also embrace illegal immigration and welfare, both of which just encourage increasing population.
The arrogance of these idiot greenies never ceases to amaze me.
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:35:44 AM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
To: Sub-Driver
Which is why the US and Europe have been pushing euthanasia - a nicer term for what is essentially Hitler's "Final Solution". Who will they kill first? The old, terminally ill, disabled, and mentally ill.
Dying will become a duty in the Brave New World.
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posted on
03/24/2009 8:39:03 AM PDT
by
NoPrisoners
(Huh? You mean he's NOT the messiah??? / sarcasm)
To: Sub-Driver; AAABEST; AdamSelene235; AnnaZ; Askel5; backhoe; BlackElk; Brian Allen; ...
I haven't bothered with a Death Cultivation Ping in quite some time. There are so many stories that would fit. Pinging them all would reduce the meaning of this ping list to just another list of outrages. So I have avoided doing that.
This story, however, is a bit more ominous.
A major Western government has openly stated it's hatred of it citizens and the other nations of the West are going to be observing the result.
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Browns leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population.
and
UK population must be cut to 30m [from 61m].
1.Will Great Britain's subjects finally act to end the influence of its highly seated misanthropes? Or, more worrisome, 2. is this openness a sign that the government believes (and maybe all its associate nations believe) that they are untouchable and there is nothing that our moronic populace can do about it?
How many on this list see the danger that the second option is being tested, intended or not?
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posted on
03/24/2009 4:26:45 PM PDT
by
Avoiding_Sulla
(Yesterday's Left = today's status quo. Thus "CONSERVATIVE": a conflicted label for battling tyranny.)
To: Avoiding_Sulla
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posted on
03/24/2009 7:05:12 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: Avoiding_Sulla
I think that is quite likely.
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posted on
03/24/2009 8:12:45 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: Sub-Driver
You have to give these murderous b*st*rds full points for consistency.
They know where they’re going - see tagline.
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posted on
03/25/2009 12:39:24 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
04/18/2009 4:27:17 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: Sub-Driver; enough_idiocy; Desdemona; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; ...
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posted on
04/19/2009 5:30:40 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
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