UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt

[Chris_]

UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt

JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.

Porritt’s call will come at this week’s annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron.

The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably.

Porritt said: “Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure.

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Such views on population have split the green movement. George Monbiot, a prominent writer on green issues, has criticised population campaigners, arguing that “relentless” economic growth is a greater threat.

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Yet another reason that moonbat liberals should not be allowed to breed.

 

[franksolich]

Now, this is bull manure.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the various new nations created out of that wreckage--most noticeably Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine--experienced significant drops in population.

With fewer mouths to feed, mysteriously those fewer mouths got less, than they had when their numbers were greater.