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.
Only a true idiot can look at a policy that has failed - and the numerous negative ramifications it has caused - and think, “Yes. That’s the ticket.”
that wouldn’t work. Turner was an only child and he should never have been spawned...
Hey, Ted... come back and propose this again - AFTER you’ve got the Muslims sold on the idea.
No, they'll probably FORCE him to have one.
Gotta keep the gene pool stirred up you know. Can't let it get too ingrown or let potential good genes go to waste.
I have four siblings. One brother has one child. That means that I can have four total. One for me and three for each of the others who don't have any.
They don’t want to stop population growth, they want to exterminate the human race. One each isn’t even close to replacement for two people.
Here’s an idea, Ted. You should be gelded.
Christians and Jews should be required to have four or more children.
Enforcement = ??
No problem, we can do that, right after he kills 4 of HIS 5 children, (1)Laura Lee, (2)Robert Edward IV, (3)Rhett, (4)Beauregard, and (5)Jennie. When he goes to “zero” so will the rest of us. But don’t ask us to kill our newborns if he can’t eliminate his “already borns”. What a jerk! Typical lib. “It’s good for YOU, but doesn’t apply to ME”.
Wow! Nothing says ‘Adolf Hitler’, quite like a little population control.
‘Their statistics are showing quite the reverse of population trending upward.’
I notice that statistic a few months ago and wondered when someone like Ted would start hammering about 1 child policy. Do not take him lightly.
I think that’s what they use abortion for.
I read where 40 percent of blacks conceived are aborted.
If that isn’t a form of population control I don’t know what is.
And which four of his five kids are up for termination?!?!
The Progressive’s are just so disturbing...
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