Although I am generally a fan of 'all things Boris', our MP for Henley is spending way too much time with Zac 'I have all this money so I must be relevant' Goldsmith. His slightly disturbing paean to eugenics in today's Telegraph demonstrates one of the Great British Vanities: we live shoulder to shoulder inside the M25, so the whole world must be like this. (Sort of like those other vanities: Britons are more culturally aware, better-travelled and read more).
It's easy to believe, living in SE England that humans are literally crawling over each other all over the planet. But painting a picture of unfettered human growth, as he does saying 211,000 new people are born every day, is completely potty when you leave out the OTHER statistic: 153,000 die in that same day. The FACT of the matter is that every person alive today on this planet will fit inside of France with 10 square meters per person. Hysterical, bed-wetting articles like this one do nothing to advance the debate on population growth.
Just as disturbing are the myriad comments from nutcases who seem to get all their opinions from sci-fi movies like 'Soylent Green' and 'The Matrix'.
The 'global warmist' Gaia religious freaks and crypto-Nazis need to put their money where their mouth is and lead the de-population movement.....by doing us all a favour and going first.
We'll be right behind you. Soon. Promise.
Thursday 25 October 2007
Monday 1 October 2007
I want my money back
If this story from the Guardian is true, that the BBC has "tens of millions of pounds" available to put the effing Lonely Planet guides online, then I want to know what the bleeding hell they need a license fee for?
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