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Having large families ‘is an eco-crime’
2007-05-07
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4x4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.
I wonder when they will start advocating sterilization for people who have had 2 children.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their familyÂ’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.
I knew we would get to this point sooner or later. Nutballs all.
John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: “The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.
I don't make any flights across the Planet. Can I go on boinking? Descisions, descisions! Turn off a light/have another kid? Drive to the grocery store/have another kid?
“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
Horsepooky! This guy sounds similar to the one who said, "The Human Race is a disease on the planet."
In his latest comments the academic says that when couples are planning a family they should be encouraged to think about the environmental consequences. “The decision to have children should be seen as a very big one and one that should take the environment into account,” he added.
Sorry, Academic and John Guillebaud shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
Guillebaud says that, as a general guideline, couples should produce no more than two offspring.

This is from Times Online
"This report and the opinions supporting it are frighteningly close to Third Reich Eugenics. Who decides whose children should be born and whose are an eco-crime, i.e. "Unwertes Leben"?
This report gives the term Eco-fascism a whole new dimension."

The previous quote is not mine but I agree with the premise.
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#8  I'm the oldest of eleven.
I hope we put out so much CO2, that John Guillebaud suffocates.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-05-07 22:03  

#7  DoDo---This only applies to the normal law-abiding population. Muzzies get a pass because they go ape-sh*t if you try to impose your will upon them. Basically, the enforcement will stop when a MP or two pushes this thing through and finds that his binnacle is separated from the main part of the hull by cutting instruments wielded by persons unknown.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-05-07 21:16  

#6  So we can decrease the environmental impact upon the US by deporting 10 million who are not here legally? That's 10 million fewer consuming at the American rate. It's got to be a big positive by your calculations. Think the enviro-terrorists understand the logic? Neither do I, cause its not about the environment, its about POWER. One ring to rule them all.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-05-07 21:03  

#5  At least we won't have to hear another leftist say 'think about the children!'.
Posted by: DMFD   2007-05-07 20:53  

#4  LOL Matt.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-05-07 17:30  

#3  The decision to have children should be seen as a very big one and one that should take the environment into account...

"Will you have dinner with me tonight?"

"Possibly, but you'll have to complete this Environmental Impact Statement first."
Posted by: Matt   2007-05-07 16:06  

#2  if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their familyÂ’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

Idiots of the press. Don't they bother fact checking anything? But they agree with this nutball's viewpoint so it must be truthy.
Posted by: ed   2007-05-07 15:49  

#1  Will this be applied to the muslim population as well?
Posted by: DoDo   2007-05-07 15:36  

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