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Thursday 1 March 2012 Population
Adrian Stott
Why we need
population reduction

A trustee of the Optimum Population Trust responds to Brendan O’Neill’s report on their recent conference.

Monday 2 February 2009
Frank Furedi
Why the British elite is so scared of babies
In arguing that it’s wrong to have too many kids, Jonathon Porritt has joined the eco-misanthropes who want to reduce human numbers.

Monday 2 February 2009
Brendan O’Neill
An act of extreme, wilful fecundity?
Why the birth of octuplets in California so speedily turned from a good news story into a finger-wagging morality tale.

Wednesday 10 September 2008
Nathalie Rothschild
Let’s cap this myth of overpopulation
The Balanced Migration group moans that Britain will need seven new cities to cope with an influx of immigrants. Well, let’s start building then.

Monday 28 July 2008
Frank Furedi
Ignore this missive from our downbeat doctors
The British Medical Journal’s insistence that people should have fewer children speaks to our misanthropic, Malthusian, baby-fearing times.

Friday 30 May 2008
Frank Furedi
The rise and rise of the New Malthusianism
Fatal Misconception is a thorough study of the history of the population-control lobby – but it fatally underestimates how influential the new green-leaning Malthusianism has become.

Tuesday 18 March 2008
Nathalie Rothschild
Let’s challenge this diseased view of migration
The scare about Eastern European construction workers spreading STDs in Britain is infused with old and new prejudices about migrants.

Monday 18 June 2007
Frank Furedi
This month: Population control
How can there possibly be too many of us?

Tuesday 12 June 2007
Neil Davenport
The pitter-patter of tiny 'footprints'
Women in Britain are having more children. And for some green miserabilists that can only mean more mouths to feed and more carbon to clean up.

Wednesday 9 May 2007
James Heartfield
Seeing people as a plague on the planet
The Optimum Population Trust’s claim that having a large family is an eco-crime exposes the anti-human streak in green politics.

Tuesday 5 August 2003
Rob Lyons
Too many people?
A new campaign for population control in Britain sees humans as a problem, rather than the solution.

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