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Date of Publication: July 11
Year of Publication: 2023
Publication City: London, UK
Publisher: jonathonporritt.com
Author(s): Jonathon Porritt
Today is WORLD POPULATION DAY.
I can absolutely guarantee it will be ignored by every single environmental and development organisation here in the UK – and by the Green Party.
Frankly, I feel nothing but the deepest contempt for that continuing silence.
Let me clarify. I don’t have contempt for them as organisations. Their collective contribution to our prospects for a better world is still massive. My life today (as a veteran campaigner) is still informed and inspired by much of their work.
On population, however, their continuing refusal to acknowledge the importance of overpopulation (as a critical threat to those prospects for a better world) is craven, inexcusably self-interested (inasmuch as they don’t want to take “the flak” from anti-population “ultras” – both on the left and the right), and so deeply dishonest as to leave one asking what intellectual integrity any longer means to them.
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