Jonathon Porritt, the [UK] Government's 'green' adviser, has said that couples who have more than two children are being 'irresponsible' by creating an unbearable burden on the environment.Curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must therefore be at the heart of policies to fight man-made global warming.
Apparently this is all because people have to accept responsibility 'for their total environmental footprint'.
That's what having children amounts to, apparently, in his mind.
The blessings of a large family and the contribution this makes to prosperity and progress don't figure at all. Instead, children are to be measured solely by their burdensome impact on the planet.
What kind of sinister and dehumanised mindset is this? It is no coincidence that the country which comes nearest to Jonathon's ideal society is Communist China, which imposed a murderously cruel policy of restricting families to one child apiece. For the desire to reduce the number of children that parents produce is innately totalitarian.
I can't say it any better.
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Maybe he's had to change too many diapers in his life and is now scarred by the experience and doesn't understand the tolerance the rest of us have for these poop creating creatures. It's not like they're giving off methane gas in intolerable doses, though at times it may seem that way. Perhaps if you raise your kids up to be chain smokers their carbon foot print might be large, maybe even size 13's, but next to mount st. Helen's, the production of a nicotine addict is like, well, nothing. Blah, blah, footprint..
(you know my mind often takes detours and in fact, it sometimes never finds the road again...what was I talking about?)
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