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.
Japan is already suffering from declining population.
Europe suffers from declining European population.
We in the US are leveling off - and in a growth dependent economy, that spells trouble.
I try to explain the following to population control nuts:
The land area of Rhode Island is 1,044 square miles. All 7 Billion people in this world get fit in Rhode Island, standing on their own 2 ft by 2 ft square. The ENTIRE population of the world.
Wouldn't Rhode Island tip over?
While we are at it, let us use sperm from one super donor. That way we can have a super race of individuals who are perfect.
Ted’s father should have spilled his seed.
And liberals think we are the ones that are crazy.
Ted Turner is a perv and a flake. I met him when I worked for AOL during 2000-201. CNN had a meeting on the AOL Campus in Dulles, VA. I felt like I needed to go shower after I shook his hand. EEEUUUUWWWWWW
I thought I was going to cough up a hair ball too.
2000 - 2001
I had to look twice to see if this wasn’t one of John Semmens great pieces...unfortunately it is not satire:(. What a jerk...he and Fonda deserved one another!
As a matter of fact, it will remain intact even if Ted turns up missing!
No, no, no...that’s Guam you’re thinking about!
Well they’re both islands. ;)
Ted was already wandering from sanity before he betrothed the lovely Hanoi Jane. I seem to remember he lost a sister to some disease back in the 60s or 70s. Apparently it unhinged him.
I guess if he can’t have his sister, then no child should have a sibling.
Turner, like Gingrich and a host of others, are so retro they’re beyond retro. Why anything this man says is repeated by the media is beyond me—unless it likes to laugh at a wounded person.
Well, I guess that’s close enough :)!
Is this in spite of his fathering five kids already, or because of it?
I have always seen Turner as a business and communications visionary.But once he gets into social and political issues he becomes that guy who owned the Braves and pushed the baseball around the field with his nose.
Add disability too and you’ve got me sold.
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Heil Turner!
A match made in hea...er um, well, Hell!
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