UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt [if it is to build a sustainable society.....]

Times Online ^

[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.

[denydenydeny]

A) It’s an admission that there is no way they can achieve their promised 2050 emissions cuts without turning Britain into stone age New Guinea. So, if you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river.

B) I’d love to know the precise methodology they used to calculate this figure
but I bet there are computer models involved. Sorry, sir, no children for you—see, this printout says so.

[dfwgator]

Well Jonathan, put your money where your mouth is.

[Islander7]

JONATHON PORRITT, Mr. JONATHON PORRITT, please report to the showers for delousing.

[w1andsodidwe]

This is the reason liberals embrace homosexuality and abortion. Unfortunately, they also embrace illegal immigration and welfare, both of which just encourage increasing population.

The arrogance of these idiot greenies never ceases to amaze me.

[NoPrisoners]

Which is why the US and Europe have been pushing euthanasia - a nicer term for what is essentially Hitler's "Final Solution". Who will they kill first? The old, terminally ill, disabled, and mentally ill.

Dying will become a duty in the Brave New World.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I haven't bothered with a Death Cultivation Ping in quite some time. There are so many stories that would fit. Pinging them all would reduce the meaning of this ping list to just another list of outrages. So I have avoided doing that.

This story, however, is a bit more ominous.

A major Western government has openly stated it's hatred of it citizens and the other nations of the West are going to be observing the result.

“JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population.”

and

“UK population must be cut to 30m [from 61m].”

1.Will Great Britain's subjects finally act to end the influence of its highly seated misanthropes? Or, more worrisome, 2. is this openness a sign that the government believes (and maybe all its associate nations believe) that they are untouchable and “there is nothing that our moronic populace can do about it?”

How many on this list see the danger that the second option is being tested, intended or not?

[editor-surveyor]

Thanks for the ping!

[TigersEye]

I think that is quite likely.

[headsonpikes]

You have to give these murderous b*st*rds full points for consistency.

They know where they’re going - see tagline.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !