The one child policy in China has led to forced abortion, female infanticide, eugenics, awful heartbreak, and countless other oppressions. But in the world of radical environmentalism, that may be unfortunate–but it is also, apparently, justifiable. How else interpret this statement in the Observer by Alex Renton, which deals with the supposed need to control population to save the planet from carbon dioxide. From the column “Fewer British Babies Would Mean a Fairer Planet:”
According to two recent polls, nine out of 10 scientists working in climate change don’t believe we will achieve the changes in energy use committed to by the G8 and the EU. If they are right, population is going to start to matter a lot. Don’t we need a fallback plan?
That fallback plan is radical population control:
So the richer a country gets, the more pressing the need for it to curb its population. The only nation to have taken steps to do this is China – and the way it went about enforcing the notorious one child policy is one of the reasons the rest of us are so horrified by the notion of state intervention. Yet China now has 300-400 million fewer people. It was certainly the most successful governmental attempt to preserve the world’s resources so far.
It was evil! It was accomplished through murder and utter tyranny. Does that not matter anymore?
We’be been warned: Either start limiting our families to one child in the developed world–or else!
Some scientists, the German chancellor’s adviser, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber among them, say that if the cuts are not achieved, we will end up with a planet with a “carrying capacity” of just 1bn humans. [Me: What a crock.] If so, we need to start cutting back population now with methods that offer a humane choice – before it happens the hard way.
“The hard way?” as in how they did it in China? Or perhaps, worse?
Progressive liberalism used to be about freedom and equality. Increasingly it is about Utopian hysteria and undemocratic control. Perhaps, there’s a spot for this guy among the Obama policy czars.
October 26th, 2009 | 1:17 am
Now, Wesley, don’t you know that the word “evil” isn’t allowed anymore?
October 26th, 2009 | 10:08 am
I can see this becoming a reality down the road in the U.S., if single-payer health care with abortion coverage becomes law. It’s a simple matter of bureaucratic math, that as the government rations out care and can’t meet the demands of the public, they will start providing “incentives” for families to reduce their sizes, perhaps by offering only to provide care for a first pregnancy and not the second. Or only providing care for those fetuses which are the most “fit” and “intelligent”. And they will say we are without excuse not to get an abortion, because the government pays for that too!
It’s a long shot, but possible.
October 26th, 2009 | 1:12 pm
Hm, by the writer’s reasoning, we should really work on making a bunch of A-bombs.
Think about it– at Hiroshima, roughly 100,000 were killed. If we didn’t do any treatment beyond mercy killing, we could probably bump that up to 150,000, and it would make the 400,000,000 killed that the author is so envious of fairly easy to reach!
Of course, simply stopping all medical treatment for a year or so would probably be more effective, or outlaw flu vaccinations and treatment? The US alone is estimated to lose some 36,000 people every year to flu complications, and it wouldn’t require any extreme action!
(gag)
October 26th, 2009 | 3:22 pm
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October 28th, 2009 | 1:54 pm
Mom Of 11 meets climate global warming expert 2.5 years ago. The conversion went something like this.
“How many children do you have?”, asks the climate expert.
“I have 11″, Mom replies.
“At least you are not hispanic”, Climate expert responds.
“What do you think these people are about?”, Mom asks her children. Are they wanting to look after the planet, or Look After you?
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November 10th, 2009 | 10:14 am
Destroying our own offspring and not using our mental skills to find new ways of saving energies and sharing fodd and all that is necessary. How can we dare call ourselves developed?
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