UK’s long-term sustainable population level may be lower than 30 million
April 14, 2009
“Sir David Attenborough said that a “frightening explosion in human numbers” was behind every threat to wildlife across the world.”
I’d go one further and say it’s a threat to every damned thing!
The UK is more densely populated than China. The Optimum Population Trust (OPT) believes Earth may not be able to support more than half its present numbers before the end of the century.
The OPT is not as radical as me. All reasonable adults should sign up to it and support it.
So what’s the UK government doing about this huge problem? Pregnant women are now entitled to a £190 “health in pregnancy” grant from the government irrespective of their household income….
Now we’ve all noticed the pregnant mothers dying of malnutrition on the streets of Britain, haven’t we?
Haven’t we?
Well now the kindly New Labour ‘helping hand’ of government will save them!
My God…we’re overcrowded already and yet government continues to assist and support the creation of more Children. Think of the carbon footprint of each baby born here as it grows to adulthood!
Madness takes many forms, but ours as a society is the most virulent and world damaging madness imaginable. Maternity units should be privatised – pre and anti natal care should be paid for by the individual/s producing the child. No state benefits should be paid simply on the strength of having a child….
The only bit of Social Engineering I sign up to.