Here’s the news: Media mogul Ted Turner thinks the world should have a one child policy. Here’s the non-news: Ted Turner is a hypocrite.

The Globe & Mail has the story:
Climate change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment.
Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emission, a little-discussed subject given its political sensitivity.
… Mr. Turner – a long-time advocate of population control – said the environmental stress on the Earth requires radical solutions, suggesting countries should follow China’s lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time. He added that fertility rights could be sold so that poor people could profit from their decision not to reproduce.
“If we’re going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billion people,” Mr. Turner said.
Naturally, this speech was given to the delegates at the IPCC’s Cancun debauch-a-thon.
In the case of Ted’s parents, don’t you really think one child was too many.
Source: Globe & Mail
