BNP quote Porritt and the OPT

The BNP are now using the environment as a cover for their anti-immigration stance.

The most recent edition of their disgusting rag Voice of Freedom has Jonathan Porritt pictured on the cover and using his statements to try and add respectability to their policies.

This has always been the danger when environmental groups start calling for tough measures on population and immigration.

It is important we distance ourselves from such thinking. And I hope when Mr Porritt finds out that he is being used by the BNP that he issues a statement strongly distancing himself from their policies.

The BNP support the Optimum Population Trust

I've long felt that the Optimum Population Trust is an embarrassment to the UK Green movement. The OPT population policy is:

OPT POPULATION POLICY
OPT campaigns for policies to achieve environmentally sustainable population levels both globally and in the UK. The ecological issue is one of population numbers, resource demands and the environmental impacts created by different sizes of population at given levels of affluence and technology. For more details see the Fertility, Migration, Population policy projections, Briefings and submissions and other sections of this website. OPT recommends the following population policies:
# Globally, that full access to family planning should be provided to all those who do not have it, that couples should be encouraged voluntarily to "Stop at Two" children to lessen the impact of family size on the environment, and that this should be part of a holistic approach involving better education and equal rights for women.
# In the UK, that population should be allowed to stabilise and decrease by not less than 0.25% a year to an environmentally sustainable level, by bringing immigration into numerical balance with emigration, by making greater efforts to reduce teenage pregnancies, and by encouraging couples voluntarily to "Stop at Two" children.

Such a policy is completely immoral, as we should not be dictating how many children a couple can have, or even what the immigration levels for the country should be. Such policies belong on the far-right of politics and should be disowned by the Green movement.

You need look no further than the British National Party website to see what kind of support groups like the OPT attract.

Globalisation, over-consumption of resources and capitalism fuel our environmental problems, not the population levels and certainly not immigration.

Join the Anti-Optimum Population Trust group on Facebook.