英國的優生學家要求：我們要有一個全球性倡議以減少人口

英國的優生學家要求：我們要有一個全球性倡議以減少人口
UK Eugenicists Demand We need a global initiative for population reduction

我們需要一個全球性的人口辯論
We need a global debate on population

Steve Connor
London Independent
June 15, 2010

A growing number of scientists are going where politicians fear to tread by calling for a wider public debate on the sensitive issue of the global human population, which is set to rise from the present 6.8 billion to perhaps 9 billion by 2050.
越來越多的科學家在去那連政客也畏懼踩踏的地方，呼龥更廣泛的公開辨論在那敏感議題 - 全球人口，它將準備從目前的68億到2050年可能上升至90億，。
Lord Rees, the president of the Royal Society, brought the subject up in his excellent Reith Lectures; Sir David Attenborough has become a champion of those who believe population has been relegated as an environmental issue; and more recently Professor Aubrey Manning, presenter of the BBC’s Earth Story, has stated that the sheer number of humans on the planet is the greatest menace the world faces.

Scientists have a reputation for saying things as they are, not as they should be. Politicians, forever looking for short-term solutions to keep them in office, do not, as a rule, look further than the middle distance. Yet population is one of those over-the-horizon threats without enemies, as Lord Rees put it. It is a disaster in slow motion, and all politicians seem to do is provide the sort of platitudes articulated by Michael Heseltine, who recently fielded a question on Radio 4 by saying that the problems associated with population never turn out to be as bad as predicted – which is probably true if you can enjoy your own Oxfordshire arboretum.

No doubt Heseltine and his fellow politicians who are in favour of doing nothing about population will cite the words of John P Holdren, President Obama’s science adviser, who wrote these words in 1969 when he was a young ecologist: “If the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”
毫無疑問，赫塞爾廷和他的同伙政治家，他們贊成不為人口做什麼東西，將要列舉美國總統奧巴馬的科學顧問約翰霍爾德倫的話，當他還是一個年輕的生態學家時，他在1969年寫這些話：“如果人口控制措施不立即啟動，和有效地，所有科技人能帶去承受的，將不會抵禦要來的苦難。“
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