Posted on 07/20/2011 10:00:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Beckham's Welcome Fourth Child, British Eco-Nuts Call Couple 'Selfish' By Erin R. Brown Created 07/20/2011 - 12:32pm
"The Beckhams are breeding! The Beckhams are breeding!" That's the latest battle cry that can be heard over in the UK with the news that David and Victoria Beckham have just welcomed a fourth child into the world. While that is happy news to most people, leave it to environmentalists, lefty politicians and media outlets to question the Beckhams' bundle of joy. It is, according to these critics, irresponsible to continue having children.
According to the Guardian (UK), environmentalists and politicians are using the newest addition to the Beckham family as a wake up call to "open a public debate about how many children people should have." The UN Population Division maintains that the world's population is expected to reach seven billion in late 2011.
Simon Ross, the chief executive of the Optimum Population Trust, an organization that campaigns for the "gradual decrease of the population to sustainable levels," said, "The Beckhams, and others like London mayor Boris Johnson, are very bad role models with their large families." He went on to state, "There's no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them100% by having another child."
Furthermore, Ross condemned the "horrific consequences of China's one-child policy" in one paragraph, but went on to argue that "We need to change the incentives to make the environmental case that one or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish." The Guardian reported that Ross "is calling for the government to tackle the UK's high rates of accidental pregnancy and to give child benefits and tax credits only for the first two children."
Caroline Lucas, an MP of the Green party, believes that a healthy discussion about population control is needed "whether it focuses on improving family planning or reducing global inequality" because the issue "is a debate about poverty and inequality, as well as about sustainability."
Unfortunately, prominent voices in the United States have also advocated for population control. CNN founder Ted Turner, Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates and wealthy investor Warren Buffet are among those in the "billionaire boys club" that believe "overpopulation is the greatest threat to the planet." Turner has advocated for a "one-couple, one-child" policy and has even given money to the United Nation for the purposes of population control.
What these eco-nuts in England fail to realize is that the Beckhams' situation doesn't exactly fit with the their arguments about "poverty." David Beckham's successful soccer career and subsequent endorsements and his wife Victoria's (a former Spice Girl) music sales and fashion lines make the couple worth a whopping $271 million combined. These wealthy parents aren't exactly breeding children into a life of poverty.
Let's hope that, unlike their British counterparts, the American media encourage the Beckhams to stimulate the American economy by spending their money and raising as many children as they'd like to have here.
I’d like these eco-nuts/population control weirdos to go down to some East L.A. church and try their material out there...cowards
William Flax
“There’s no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them100% by having another child.”
Idiotic!
It’s amazing -
someone that has a large family and isn’t taking any public assistance in this country is frowned on,
but if anyone says anything about the latest welfare recipient download by a baby-mama, they’re “racist” and “have no right to comment on someone’s right to have children”.
My wife actually had some leftist woman ask her “so, what do you do when you’re not breeding?”
Out of respect for our host, my wife just laughed at her and answered her question.
I personally believe having children is a private matter. Whether one chooses not to have children for whatever personal reason there may be or has a dozen or more.. none of my business. The only time I “object” is when a person has a child or children and relies on the government to feed/clothe/otherwise provide for said child. IMHO
What did V’ger and NOMAD plan to do about the Carbon Units “infesting” the Earth and the Enterprise?
I would have at least 4 with her, and try for several hundred more.
> Idiotic!
An understatement, but as good a polite approximation as you can get in the English language.
“... my wife just laughed at her”.
Why do I find that hard to believe? Either your wife has an IMMENSE amount of self control or you aren’t telling us WHAT she said in response. As a Mom to 3... my response would have been very graphic and quite “hostile”. LOL!
Twitpic of David Beckham with newborn baby Harper, the first daughter for
the celebrity couple who have three sons: Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 5.
David, 36, and Victoria, 37, married in 1999.(Copyright ©2011 KABC-TV/DT.
Beckham and his three sons.
Britain will eventually be in the position of Italy and Japan with not enough workers and too many pensioners.
These people are idiots. I guess no one has told the eco-nuts that in reality most all of Europe is dying because people are NOT having enough children to meet replacement levels. Hence the need to import mohammaden workers.
Conservative families in the USA should make a concerted effort to have at least 4 or 5 kids and eventually breed out the liberal filth.
Simon Ross - trustee of The Optimum Population Trust
"I felt that population growth was a key factor underlying many of today’s big issues, from loss of amenity, pollution and congestion to biodiversity decline, resource scarcity and climate change."
Simon Ross on February 25th, 2011 5:34 pm:
"Biodiversity loss, climate change and resource depletion are caused by people. To reject efforts to reduce human numbers and hence their impact on the basis that this is a “distraction” from lifestyle change, green technology, economic development, social change or all of the above is simply a strategy for ineffectiveness and immiseration. We should be using all the tools in the box to address human impact, not squabbling over which is the best one."
"The measures generally accepted as contributing to a lower birth rate are access to affordable reproductive healthcare, women’s empowerment, economic opportunity and education on family planning and the benefits to society of smaller families. These have been proven to work. They don’t reduce the population instantly, but that isn’t a good reason to reject them as a contribution to reducing human impact on resources and the environment. Ben and Ian are explicit in preferring the focus to be on “changes..that work” and “challenging society”, arguments used by past generations of socialists for rejecting anti-imperialism, feminism and environmentalism as distractions from the class struggle, a stance that modern socialists reject."
Save your eugenics for another forum. All are beautiful creations from God.
Dear Simon,
Mind your own damn business!
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“One or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish,’’ Simon Ross, executive director of the Optimum Population Trust
UK-based Optimum Population Trust, whose chief executive, Simon Ross, is calling for the government to tackle the UK’s high rates of accidental pregnancy and to give child benefits and tax credits only for the first two children. “That would send a clear signal that the government will support sustainable families, but after that you are on your own,” he said. “There is a big issue there, family planning is cheap, yet many people don’t use it properly and accidental pregnancy rates are very high. We need to change the incentives to make the environmental case that one or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish.
My wife has the attitude of “being a liberal is its own punishment”.
“One remarks nowadays all over Greece such a diminution in natality and in general manner such depopulation that the towns are deserted and the fields lie fallow. Although this country has not been ravaged by wars or epidemics, the cause of the harm is evident: by avarice or cowardice the people, if they marry, will not bring up the children they ought to have. At most they bring up one or two. It is in this way that the scourge before it is noticed is rapidly developed. The remedy is in ourselves; we have but to change our morals.” (Polybius, 204-122 B.C.)
Nothing is new under the sun. Wise people in the past recognized the lack of children as a sign of moral decay... we should have the wisdom to recognize it as well.
They’re worried about rich people having babies, while the Muslims breed like rabbits and threaten the very existence of Great Britain.
Talk about myopic, deluded AND stupid!
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