Posted on 07/20/2011 7:24:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
DAVID AND VICTORIA Beckham were overjoyed by the birth last week of their fourth child, a baby girl they named Harper. “We all feel so blessed and the boys love their baby sister so much!!!’’ the former Spice Girl exulted to her vast following on Twitter. A few days later she posted a picture of her husband cradling his new daughter, with the tender comment: “Daddy’s little girl!’’
Whose heart wouldn’t be warmed by the Beckhams’ delight in their newborn?
The Observer’s wouldn’t.
In a remarkably churlish article on Sunday, Britain’s influential left-leaning newspaper (the Observer is the Guardian’s sister Sunday paper) pronounced Harper’s parents “environmentally irresponsible’’ for choosing to bring her into the world. Headlined “Beckhams a ‘bad example’ for families,’’ the piece was a blast at parents who raise good-sized families. “One or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish,’’ Simon Ross, executive director of the Optimum Population Trust, told reporter Tracy McVeigh. “The Beckhams . . . are very bad role models.’’
McVeigh also quoted natural-history broadcaster David Attenborough, who recently “made a passionate speech about how the world’s baby-making was damaging the planet.’’ Fifty years ago there were 3 billion human beings, Attenborough had lamented. “Now there are almost 7 billion . . . and every one of them needing space. There cannot be more people on this Earth than can be fed.’’
Has there ever been a more persistent and popular superstition than the idea that having more kids is a bad thing, or that “overpopulation’’ causes hunger, misery, and hopelessness? In the 18th century, Thomas Malthus warned that human population growth must inevitably outstrip the food supply; to prevent mass starvation, he suggested, “we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction,’’ such as encouraging the spread of disease
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The latest Malthusian is none other than New York times Columnist : Thomas Friedman who recently wrote the article: “The Earth Is Full,’’ ( a play on his best seller — The World is Flat).
His quote: “we are currently growing at a rate that is using up the Earth’s resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenished.”
Read the column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=4&ref=columnists
As always, we must observe: If you think there are too many people - Mr. Ross, Mr. Attenborough - kindly eliminate yourselves. I guarantee you’re lifestyle is higher on the carbon-hog scale than my family of 12 is.
If Friedman took one for the team and offed himself, then I might be impressed.
Great article bump
Those are the people who figure out how to do things that make life better for us all.
Convince the Muslims of that first, d-bag.
Depends on the kinds of people...
Yes, just think of how well our economy would be now if the 50,000,000+ babies that were slaughtered in abortuaries since 1973 were alive now and buying cars, clothes, cereal, homes, needing schools, factories, computers, and on and on and on. It’s just terrible what we’ve done to our previously very successful country. We should be grossly ashamed of ourselves.
That guy's brain is fried.
The Island of Manhattan is Full.... of liberal retards - I'd agree with that.
RE: just think of how well our economy would be now if the 50,000,000+ babies that were slaughtered in abortuaries since 1973 were alive now and buying cars, clothes, cereal, homes, needing schools, factories, computers, and on and on and on..
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I’ve heard liberals argue that had these babies grown up, they would pose a BIGGER PROBLEM to society because most of them were unwanted and their parents would be neglecting them. Hence, they would be on welfare, gangs, drugs and cause all sorts of societal problems which will accelerate the downward spiral of this country (Note: this is not my argument, I’ve just heard it given several times)
Depends on who is breeding. If Welfare mothers are breeding like rabbits and those with high intelligence only have one child, civilization will soon end.
I believe that Malthusian theories would hold validity in a socialist society. There reaches a point where it becomes impossible to balance the distribution of resources in a planned society at certain levels of growth. For the sake of efficiency and “crop prices” one year you create incentives for farmers not to grow, and several years down the line you have shortages that prevent you from feeding everyone.
This is a primary reason as to why the battle for capitalism is so important. Where socialist planning fails, capitalist ingenuity allows growing societies to thrive. Sure, people don’t get equal slices of the pie but the overall pie is bigger. There’s plenty for everyone.
Socialism, on the other hand, sees natural human freedoms as inherently “irresponsible.” This is why a socialist society cannot help but be dystopic when fully realized.
How many on welfare programs?
If we didn’t have welfare programs, we wouldn’t have “welfare moms,” and it was those of “high intelligence,” your liberals with their 0.8 children and Harvard PhD.s, who put in the welfare programs.
Maybe “intelligence” is a little different from what we think, especially if it’s divorced from character.
Whenever I hear someone complain of overpopulation, I ask them to show some leadership and “go” first.
So does anyone with any common sense.
At least the evil eugenicists of yesterday were proposing a solution that would leave useful groups in tact.
These new generation claustrophobics don’t seem to have a problem with the exploding Muslim populations.
Its not the gross number, its the percentages within:
More productive people = more prosperity
More parasitical people = less prosperity
So more illegals in drug gangs and more welfare recipients mean more prosperity??? Maybe for the Democrat party, but that’s all!!!!
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