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More "Babies are bad for the planet"

July 12th, 2007

Some months ago I posted on a couple of articles on how the environmental extremist movement was pushing the perpetual lie about overpopulation, tying it in with the idea that having too many children is environmentally irresponsible. Well, here we have another such article, once again praising the benevolent Chinese government for their “solution” to this problem (never mind that the put out more pollution that anyone else on the planet, and they have worked things so that environmental regulations don’t apply to them, and for that matter that they’re communists and therefore intrinsically evil.)

This one’s specifically about Britons:

The Optimum Population Trust, a UK-based think tank, made the call in a new report unveiled today, saying record growth in Britain’s birth rate was having an adverse impact on the environment.

The report’s author, Professor John Guillebaud, said the Government should introduce “stop at two children” or “have one less” policies.

“Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia, or 35 times as much as a new birth in Bangladesh,” Prof Guillebaud’s report says.

“A voluntary stop-at-two guideline should be adopted for couples in the UK who want to adopt greener lifestyles.”

“Optimum population trust” – what an interesting name. Also, note that the word “government” is capitalized?

What about the fear of underpopulation, as in Australia?

In Britain, the think tank argues, economic and political pressures to lift the birth rate “are hopelessly simplistic and should be resisted”.

“Far from panicking about baby shortages, almost every country can welcome fertility rates at or slightly below replacement level,” it said.

China introduced its strict one-child family planning policy in the late 1970s.

The policy is believed to have prevented millions of births.

“Believed to have prevented?”

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