British Think Tank: We Should Save The Planet By Killing Ourselves
Well, that’s not exactly what they’re saying, but they are saying that fewer humans means less global warming. So we should stop having such large families.
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4x4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.
John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: “The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.
“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
You know where this is heading, right? The same place all of this global warming nonsense is heading. Government controls on all aspects of your up to and including what type of light bulbs you can use and how often you can procreate during your lifetime.
Sound far-fetched? Unlikely? Trust me, it’s where we’re going. All for the sake of an issue that we don’t even know is being caused by humans or even know if we can stop.
It’s madness, and the sad thing is that I’m not sure how much of it is being driven by actual environmental concerns or simply a desire to expand government control over the world’s citizens.
