Porritt - UK Population Must Fall to 30M

• From 61 million people to 30 million. How exactly does this fella think UK is going to ‘remove’ half its population. There are a lot of strange people around with even stranger ideas. This certainly reminds me of the Illuminati’s de-population plan.
   
• The Sunday Times UK reports :
   
  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. 
   
  “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.”
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  Population growth is one of the most politically sensitive environmental problems. The issues it raises, including religion, culture and immigration policy, have proved too toxic for most green groups.
   
  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.
   
  Many experts believe that, since Europeans and Americans have such a lopsided impact on the environment, the world would benefit more from reducing their populations than by making cuts in developing countries.
   
  This is part of the thinking behind the OPT’s call for Britain to cut population to 30m — roughly what it was in late Victorian times. Britain’s population is expected to grow from 61m now to 71m by 2031. Some politicians support a reduction. 
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  Despite these comments, however, government and Conservative spokesmen this weekend both distanced themselves from any population policy.

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