Environmentalist Group: Children 'Bad for Planet'

More evidence of the strong tendency toward misanthropy in Leftism, given the frequent pronouncements comparing people to "pollution":

HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.

"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child"....

The population of developed nations is expected to remain unchanged and would have declined but for migration.

The British fertility rate is 1.7. The EU average is 1.5. Despite this, Professor Guillebaud says rich countries should be the most concerned about family size as their children have higher per capita carbon dioxide emissions.

Largely because of their ambivalence to children, secular liberals are essentially making themselves extinct. The trend is not immediately obvious, however, because of the counterbalance provided by immigration and because of large religious families. Here is a striking photo to illustrate the point. It shows a reunion in Israel of Princeton alumni who have immigrated to Israel. The picture is not atypical:



At least according to current demographic trends, the future of the Jewish people is religious, and in Israel.