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What the Dickens are population controllers up to?

Wow. I love the way this guy thinks.

Michael Cook, Mercatornet.com

…Take the Optimum Population Trust, a superannuated gaggle of gimlet-eyed, thin-lipped Gradgrinds who out-Scrooge Scrooge. Their aim is to slash the number of unfeathered bipeds who pollute the earth with carbon emissions. “Everything we manage to achieve for the natural environment is being wiped out by the nearly 80 million extra people each year who need to use up space and resources,” they claim. They have even launched PopOffsets, a charity which offsets your carbon footprint by reducing the number of babies in the developing world. And they have the nerve to describe themselves as a “charity”!

I can just imagine them counting up their miserabilist PopOffset dollars: “Another $7 for the charity, one less baby in Ghana; $21 for the charity, 3 less in Sierra Leone; $35 for the charity; 5 less in Chad.” And after a heavy night out on New Year’s Eve adding to their carbon footprint with champers and fireworks, the new hair of the dog is a donation to PopOffset to scrub a few more babies from the population of Zaire.

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