Lead by example when it comes to environmentalism
Mark Steyn writes in the Corner:
“Humanity is the greatest challenge,” says Colorado environmental activist John Feeney in “The Green Room” at BBC News. It’s not enough to reduce emissions, we have to reduce the folks doing the emitting:
And a quick look over at the Beeb’s “Green Room” shows us Mr. Feeney-mo-meaney’s views on humanity:
We must end world population growth, then reduce population size. That means lowering population numbers in industrialised as well as developing nations.
End population growth. Fine. Mr. Feeney can do two things. First, go on a speaking tour in any of the countries with the highest birth rates:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Niger
- Afghanistan
- Mali
- Angola
- Burundi
- Uganda
- Sierra Leone
and tell them to stop breeding. See how well that goes over. Second, he can lead in his quest to reduce the world’s populations by example. I believe the colloquialism goes something like, “S**t or get off the pot.” If that’s too abrasive, Glenn Reynolds’ saying is, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.“