Posted on 12/06/2010 2:36:41 PM PST by NYer
Ted Turner
CANCUN, Mexico, December 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) Media billionaire Ted Turner called on world leaders Sunday to institute an international one-child policy akin to that being enforced in China.
The CNN founder said that under this scheme the worlds poor could sell their fertility rights and thereby profit from avoiding procreation, reports the Globe and Mail.
Radical solutions are needed, he said, because of the environmental crisis facing the planet. If were going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, were not going to do it with seven billion people, he explained.
Chinas coercive approach to implementing their policy includes forced abortion, imprisonment, and fines many times greater than a familys annual income. The policy has faced strong criticism from human rights organizations, such as the pro-abortion Amnesty International.
Turner, however, who is renowned in pro-life circles for using his massive wealth to promote abortion and population control, raised eyebrows last year when he claimed that China does not use draconian steps in enforcing the policy.
When the interviewer pointed out that in enforcing the policy China has done more than encourage on several occasions, the media mogul admitted he was not intimately familiar with everything. He nevertheless did not retract the comments.
Turner was a featured speaker this past weekend at the World Climate Summit in Cancun, a conference for business leaders staged during the UNs Climate Change Conference in the same city to accelerate solutions to climate change.
He made the comments during a luncheon on Sunday where economist Brian ONeill of the U.S.s National Center for Atmospheric Research presented his new study on the impact of demographic trends on greenhouse gas emissions.
ONeill argued that promoting access to family planning could be a major boon to those seeking to reduce greenhouse emissions. ONeill, however, advocated voluntary approaches.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, said today that instead of Chinas coercive brand of population control, Turner instead wants to pursue a less populated world by bribing women into giving up their fertility.
There is ... something despicable about offering a poor, hungry woman food, money, or clothing in exchange for her surrendering her fertility, said Mosher, who has studied Chinas one-child policy for over three decades.
Yet while Turner has not advocated coercion, Mosher explained that the population policy he is promoting will inevitably lead that way. Population control programs are all voluntary until someone refuses to submit to the knife, at which time the pretense of voluntarism is abandoned, threats start being made, and forced sterilizations follow, he said.
The world would be a lot better off without this kind of person.
Ted shut up and go buy some land or something.
And of course that “policy” will only apply to us little plebes don’t ya know. The wealthy elite will be exempt from this policy as they are exempt from just about any “policy” they make for us “little folks”.
By 2025, over 600 million will be of retirement age, as opposed to approximately 200 million now.
The number of people of working age, currently about 850 million, will decline to about 500 million.
By 2040, it will be about 1 billion to 350 million.
Within the next 30 years, China will likely euthanize several hundred million of their elderly because the one child policy has left them with no workforce to support them and precious few grandchildren to care about them and fight for them.
“FUTT!!”
ROFLMAO! It actually took me a minute to figure that out! LOL
Ted Turner just another Liberal Globalist NutJob....and another Cheerleader for Communist China
This from a guy with 5 kids (sigh).
How does Ted just “know” all the hogsh1t he’s spewing out of his mouth? How does he just know all this?
He knows it the same way the global warming liars know it. It’s all made up. It’s a personal belief, nothing more. He believes in the death culture. You see, to save life, you have to kill a LOT of life. We must prevent life to save life. Yup, Satan working overtime here, such a receptive audience, he’s doing six shows a day in Ted’s black heart. Good grief he must fall off at least one turnip truck a day.
The very same idiots bitching about too much life here, just scouring asteroids and Mars begging and praying to Darwin to find ANYTHING they can claim is life beyond this planet.
Nothing like a stupid person believing they are smart. We must kill lots of life to save lives. Kind of like Biden telling the retired folks “we have to spend more money to keep from going bankrupt.”
This planet is hardly maxed out. The main reason people die is OTHER EFFING PEOPLE LIKE TURNER AND BIDEN AND OBAMA AND NK’S TINPOT DICTATOR AND IRAN’S IMABADHAIRDYEJOB. CASTRO. It’s OTHER PEOPLE getting in the way of people sending aid to the dying people.
And of course, as Sam Kinison said, it’s because a lot of people live in places where you can’t grow food.
You can't get your welfare check until you get your shot.
Wanna make babies? Stop sponging off the American Taxpayer.
What a vile and disgusting man. How could anyone make statements like that. He also ought to take a closer look at the demographics the Catholic Church has been compiling. Their statistics are showing quite the reverse of population trending upward. In fact, their statistics are showing that we will soon enter a population winter in all Western countries. Many are choosing not to have children or are not even reproducing themselves. I think Ted has another screw loose. By the way, which of his children would he like to put a bullet in? Not draconian in China??? What ring of Saturn is he on? What an idiot.
Ted Turner has 5 children. Perhaps 4 of them and their offpsring should be shot?
He and Hanoi Jane should have stayed married, they’re both nuts.
It will be called the “Great Wall Patriotic Fertilizer Program.”
Of course there may be food shortages there by 2025 so plans might change before then. Pass some grandpa around the table, Ching....
I call for Ted Turner to go away and leave the big decision making to grownups.
I hate gramdpa’s guts.
Shut up and eat what’s put before you...
Ted Turner was dumb enough to marry Jane Fonda.
Nuf said.
Turner, if you want a “one child” policy, you’re going to need a “no gun” policy, and Americans won’t have either.
Ted who?
Any honest, principled person who truly believed in the dire need for population control would do us all a favor and just off themselves.
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