Ted Turner
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 world’s 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 we’re going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billion people,” he explained.
China’s coercive approach to implementing their policy includes forced abortion, imprisonment, and fines many times greater than a family’s 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 UN’s 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 O’Neill of the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research presented his new study on the impact of demographic trends on greenhouse gas emissions.
O’Neill argued that promoting access to “family planning” could be a major boon to those seeking to reduce greenhouse emissions. O’Neill, however, advocated voluntary approaches.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, said today that instead of China’s 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 China’s 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.
Sure Ted. Everybody but you right?
Turner has been married and divorced three times: to Judy Nye (1960–64), Jane Shirley Smith (1965–88), and actress Jane Fonda (1991–2001). He has five children.
Ted Turner’s last live brain cell gave up the ghost a while back...
Any honest, principled person who truly believed in the dire need for population control would do us all a favor and just off themselves.
Too bad this policy wasn’t in effect when Ted’s older brother was born.
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Ted’s more than welcome to discuss this policy in many of the fine Catholic churches in East Los Angeles. He should have his 5 children stand behind him when he proposes his ideas to the congregation.
By the same logic, we should euthanize people when they no longer make positive contributions to society. Bye now Ted!!
I concur.
That’s “Father of Five” Ted Turner.
Why not? It worked so well for China.
I swear these folks are on a downward learning curve.
The one child per couple has nothing to do with price control but instead to force people to rely on the government for their money and care in their senior years. Think about it, could one couple support and care for two elderly parents and/or four grandparents.
According to Wikipedia, he has five.
Turner is an Idiot!!! What more can I say?
Another capitolist that found success due to this great country and it’s workers and now turns to bite the hand that gave him a great life! scumbags
Couldn't care less? Don't mean to be a smart ass but I think that's what you meant.
Rich people love socialism because it locks out their competition.
If Ted offed four of his kids, then I might be impressed.
You can be sure that whenever Ted’s imagination tells him there is a problem he’s sure to propose a solution that is draconian, dictatorial, immoral and just plain wrong. Ted loves to restrict other people’s freedom while jealously guarding his own. He’s a classic modern liberal.
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