Optimum world population
A UK news report ( 17 Aug) mentions that Sir David Attenborough has recently joined as patron the Optimum Population Trust (UK) , and along with many other environmentalists and scientists are calling for a campaign to limit the world's population. Prominent supporters of this call are Jonathan Porritt ( former UK government environmental adviser), long standing population control advocate Paul Ehrlich, and Professor Chris Rapley, a British scientist who has suggested that the world's population be cut by two thirds.
The chairman of the trust (Roger Martin) said, “Progress on climate change is being seriously hampered by the wide-spread refusal to acknowledge the link between total greenhouse emissions and the sheer number of emitters. It is time we abandoned this crazy taboo.”
The trust suggests that men and women in poorer countries should be encouraged to have fewer children to fight global warming, and the west should provide money to promote contraception in Third World countries.
I personally feel that population increase is the root of all problems for mankind and that the UN should have an official policy for an optimum global population as well as targets for individual countries where the population is still on the increase.
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