Just enough of me, way too much of you

Within the breast of yet another Greenie lies the stony heart of a genocidal maniac:

It is certainly true that “fewer people equals a greener planet” is simplistic. In 2050, 95% of the extra population will be poor and the poorer you are, the less carbon you emit. By today’s standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be at least 60 times as productive as one of Bangladeshis….

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.

I look forward to the day when Hitler and Stalin are hailed as far-sight visionaries who “culled” the human herd in their tender care for Mother Earth. Oddly, however, the people who hail these advances never seem to envision themselves being stampeded into the showers or the ovens. It’s always somebody else.