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IceDragon · 13-07-2007, 03:23 PM

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green...123539,00.html

"Families should restrict themselves to having a maximum of two children to stabilise the effect on the environment of Britain's rapidly growing population, a thinktank warns today.

According to the Optimum Population Trust, Britain's rising birth rate, currently growing at the highest rate for nearly 30 years, should be considered an environmental liability.

"Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia, or 35 times as much as a new birth in Bangladesh," the report says."
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So... What is all this about us being desperate for new people to come into the country, the call for more and more immigrants?

13-07-2007, 03:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
IceDragon Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,048	Too many children being born. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green...123539,00.html "Families should restrict themselves to having a maximum of two children to stabilise the effect on the environment of Britain's rapidly growing population, a thinktank warns today. According to the Optimum Population Trust, Britain's rising birth rate, currently growing at the highest rate for nearly 30 years, should be considered an environmental liability. "Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia, or 35 times as much as a new birth in Bangladesh," the report says." ----------------------- So... What is all this about us being desperate for new people to come into the country, the call for more and more immigrants?