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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 Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.

Porritt’s call will come at this week’s 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; deathcultivation; globalwarming; immigration; porritt
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Cuckoo.......
1 posted on 03/22/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Here it comes. The only way the greens will meet their goals for a final solution to global warming is with Zyklon B.


2 posted on 03/22/2009 9:10:09 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Sub-Driver

They could start by kicking out some Muslims


3 posted on 03/22/2009 9:10:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Sub-Driver

The answer is “Soilent Green”!


4 posted on 03/22/2009 9:10:34 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Sub-Driver
I wonder if Porritt for him and his family to be the first ones “down sized”.
5 posted on 03/22/2009 9:10:51 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Sub-Driver

so, if they start by deporting ALL the illegal immigrants back to Africa and islam, how many left to go?


6 posted on 03/22/2009 9:12:14 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: Sub-Driver

I wonder what the population of Manhattan will have to be reduced to for sustainability?


7 posted on 03/22/2009 9:13:41 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: Sub-Driver

hmmmm - so who decides which 30 million gets to die?


8 posted on 03/22/2009 9:13:44 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Part of the DNA of Socialism. Human life has no value. Thus the death camps, the gulag, the cultural revolution, Cambodia.


10 posted on 03/22/2009 9:14:56 AM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: BigBobber

100%


11 posted on 03/22/2009 9:15:08 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Sub-Driver
The population will never fall as long as the Brits are importing Muslims. They breed like rabbits.

The Brits will not lose population, they will just lose their culture.

12 posted on 03/22/2009 9:15:26 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Sub-Driver

So now I understand the real function of the National Health Service...


13 posted on 03/22/2009 9:16:36 AM PDT by Jagman (Obama: Our winter of discontent made summer by the glorious son of pork!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Jonathan Porritt receiving honorary degree.

Among his other accomplishments, he is the environmental adviser to Prince Charles.

He has the right to be a baron, but so far has refused it. Like Lord Obama, he has two daughters.

14 posted on 03/22/2009 9:17:45 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver

Evil leftists idiots. They let milliosn of “asulum seekers’ aka illegal aliens from places like Islamic countries and Africa flood in and now they are talking about a population explosion. Fools.


15 posted on 03/22/2009 9:18:32 AM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: MediaMole

There’s always the “Chinese Final Solution.”

One child limits and forced abortions.


16 posted on 03/22/2009 9:22:36 AM PDT by Nextrush (Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan.)
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There’s always the “Chinese Final Solution.”

One child limits and forced abortions.

Except for Muslims, of course. They would not want to offend them.

17 posted on 03/22/2009 9:25:30 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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To: Frantzie
Evil leftists idiots. They let milliosn of “asulum seekers’ aka illegal aliens from places like Islamic countries and Africa flood in and now they are talking about a population explosion. Fools.

Are British leftists seeking to engage in some kind of cultural suicide pact?

18 posted on 03/22/2009 9:27:13 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
hmmmm - so who decides which 30 million gets to die?

Why the environmental Khmer Rouge, of course!

19 posted on 03/22/2009 9:33:02 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Sub-Driver
Yeah sure.

Hey, I will even buy into it when you agree that 100% of all immigration must stop and all illegals must leave.
Sine quo non

20 posted on 03/22/2009 9:34:49 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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