
Every month or so, some insular policymaker says something to indicate that there's some kind of environmentalist plot to eradicate Earth's human population ... could they only seize power. Well, here's this month's. At this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust, leading politico
Jonathon Porritt will recommend that Britain reduce its population to 30 million to promote food sustainability.
"Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure. Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact."
Have fun with this one conspiracy theorists ... I won't stand in your way. Aside from the fact that it is in fact true that less people would emit less greenhouse gases -- in the developed world, there's really no more counterproductive PR battle than trying to advocate massive population reductions. It's a little bit
totalitarian and disconcerting. Sure OPT, have fun holding your annual conferences and recommending massive population cuts ... just don't expect to win any support by offering up a Chinese style
one-child policy.