The left/enviroweenies officially go Totalitarian

Remember when you could say that one-child policies are insane and could never happen here. Simple math and logic would dictate that in order for a population/country to continue to exist the birthrate would need to be at 2.1 (ok maybe technically 2 or 2.01). If one child is born per couple on a regular basis your country will die, literally, in a generation. None of that seems to matter to the "Environmentalists". From a news outlet in China...

Population and climate change are intertwined but the population issue has remained a blind spot when countries discuss ways to mitigate climate change and slow down global warming, according to Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC)(hey sounds like something Obama might put in place in the future). "Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture," said Zhao, who is a member of the Chinese government delegation.Um, can you say CREEPY AS HELL!! ok so we need to reduce our population because were killing the planet?! How about you talk to the third world countries about that because last time I checked every devloped nation has a birthrate BELOW REPLACEMENT (read above) levels except for one country. You know which one that is? It's us, the USA. And were BARELY above it at 2.1. If it wasn't for all the immigration we have and mexicans spitting out babies up here you could probably knock that rate down to 1.6-1.8. It continues below
Many studies link population growth with emissions and the effect of climate change.
"Calculations of the contribution of population growth to emissions growth globally produce a consistent finding that most of past population growth has been responsible for between 40 per cent and 60 percent of emissions growth," so stated by the 2009 State of World Population, released earlier by the UN Population Fund.
Yeah, I'm so sure those numbers are legit. Because we all know that the data they use is so pure and not tinkered with at all...
Although China's family planning policy has received criticism over the past three decades(and rightly so, it will cost them dearly when all those chinese men decide to try to overthrow that government because they can't get laid), Zhao said that China's population program has made a great historic contribution to the well-being of society.
As a result of the family planning policy, China has seen 400 million fewer births, which has resulted in 18 million fewer tons of CO2 emissions a year, Zhao said.
God, imagine if China had 1.7 billion people now? They would have already passed us and probably own all of Asia and Europe.
The UN report projected that if the global population would remain 8 billion by the year 2050 instead of a little more than 9 billion according to medium-growth scenario, "it might result in 1 billion to 2 billion fewer tons of carbon emissions".
Meanwhile, she said studies have also shown that family planning programs are more efficient in helping cut emissions, citing research by Thomas Wire of London School of Economics that states: "Each $7 spent on basic family planning would reduce CO2 emissions by more than one ton" whereas it would cost $13 for reduced deforestation, $24 to use wind technology, $51 for solar power, $93 for introducing hybrid cars and $131 electric vehicles.
Using economics to justify eugenics? Didn't that not work so well the first time it was tried?
She admitted that China's population program is not without consequences, as the country is entering the aging society fast and facing the problem of gender imbalance.
Duh, you think there genius?! read my above statement.
"I'm not saying that what we have done is 100 percent right, but I'm sure we are going in the right direction and now 1.3 billion people have benefited," she said. She said some 85 percent of the Chinese women in reproductive age use contraceptives, the highest rate in the world. This has been achieved largely through education and improvement of people's lives, she said.
This holistic approach that integrates policy on population and development, a strategy promoting sustainable development of population, resources and environment should serve as a model for integrating population programs into the framework of climate change adaptation, she said.
wow, just wow. And they aren't the only ones saying it. Our idiot neighbors to the north have some wackos too... From the Financial Post (Canada)
The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.
I got an idea honey, how about you start with doing the planet a favor and offing yourself? Seriously you nutters say humans are the problem? Ok fine, then don't be hypocrites and end your lives.
A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.
God forbid... I am really disturbed that people think this is a problem. By the way as a contrast how many people die every 4 days?
The world's other species, vegetation, resources, oceans, arable land, water supplies and atmosphere are being destroyed and pushed out of existence as a result of humanity's soaring reproduction rate.
... you do realize that most of that is in the developing world you crazy bitch. The US is doing a much better job than it was even 20 years ago.
Ironically, China, despite its dirty coal plants, is the world's leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation, thanks to its one-child-only edict.
I don't know what to say to that
The intelligence behind this is the following:
-If only one child per female was born as of now, the world's population would drop from its current 6.5 billion to 5.5 billion by 2050, according to a study done for scientific academy Vienna Institute of Demography.

That's NOT A GOOD THING YOU CRAZY BITCH. Someone needs to commit you. I'm bi-polar, I can spot teh crazee when I see it (props to Mitch at SiTD for inventing that line).
-By 2075, there would be 3.43 billion humans on the planet. This would have immediate positive effects on the world's forests, other species, the oceans, atmospheric quality and living standards.
... that's just idiotic
-Doing nothing, by contrast, will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050.
According to who? Does the word technology not mean anything to you?
Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it. Medical and other scientific advances have benefited by delivering lower infant mortality rates as well as longevity. Both are welcome, (good points) but (here comes the but) humankind has not yet recalibrated its behavior to account for the fact that the world can only accommodate so many people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars.
Once again according to who. My head is about to explode.
The fix is simple. It's dramatic. And yet the world's leaders don't even have this on their agenda in Copenhagen. Instead there will be photo ops, posturing, optics, blah-blah-blah about climate science and climate fraud, announcements of giant wind farms, then cap-and-trade subsidies.Apparently this crazy bitch likes Margaret Sanger (look her up)
None will work unless a China one-child policy is imposed. Unfortunately, there are powerful opponents. Leaders of the world's big fundamentalist religions preach in favor of procreation and fiercely oppose birth control. And most political leaders in emerging economies perpetuate a disastrous Catch-22: Many children (i. e. sons) stave off hardship in the absence of a social safety net or economic development, which, in turn, prevents protections or development.
Yeah, she doesn't factor a lot of that into here. She just hates humanity
China has proven that birth restriction is smart policy. Its middle class grows, all its citizens have housing, health care, education and food, and the one out of five human beings who live there are not overpopulating the planet.
Talk to them in 2025, see if they still feel the same way...For those who balk at the notion that governments should control family sizes, just wait until the growing human population turns twice as much pastureland into desert as is now the case, or when the Amazon is gone, the elephants disappear for good and wars erupt over water, scarce resources and spatial needs. The point is that Copenhagen's talking points are beside the point. The only fix is if all countries drastically reduce their populations, clean up their messes and impose mandatory conservation measures.
Here are some birthrates of "Western powers". The only one that comes close is France at 1.98 (fyi, numbers are taken from cia.gov
United States 2.05
Sri Lanka 1.99
France 1.98
Uruguay 1.92
Brunei 1.91
Iceland 1.90
Ireland 1.85
China 1.79
Australia 1.78
Luxembourg 1.78
Norway 1.78
Denmark 1.74
Finland 1.73
Trinidad and Tobago 1.72
Iran 1.71
British Virgin Islands 1.71
Sweden 1.67
Netherlands 1.66
United Kingdom 1.66
Belgium 1.65
Cuba 1.61
Canada 1.58
Portugal 1.49
Switzerland 1.45
Russia 1.41
Germany 1.41
Austria 1.39
Romania 1.39
Serbia 1.38
Greece 1.37
Hungary 1.35
Slovakia 1.35
Italy 1.31
Spain 1.31
Latvia 1.30
Poland 1.28
Ukraine 1.26
Japan 1.21
South Korea 1.21
Now for a contrast here are the top 50 birthrate countries in the world (the US is #125 out of 223 countries in the world.
1 Niger 7.75
2 Mali 7.29
3 Uganda 6.77
4 Afghanistan 6.53
5 Somalia 6.52
6 Burundi 6.33
7 Yemen 6.32
8 Burkina Faso 6.28
9 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 6.20
10 Angola 6.12
11 Ethiopia 6.12
12 Sierra Leone 5.88
13 Congo, Republic of the 5.84
14 Liberia 5.79
15 Western Sahara 5.61
16 Malawi 5.59
17 Oman 5.53
18 Mayotte 5.50
19 Benin 5.49
20 Sao Tome and Principe 5.33
21 Chad 5.31
22 Rwanda 5.25
23 Guinea 5.20
24 Mozambique 5.18
25 Zambia 5.1
26 Madagascar 5.14
27 Equatorial Guinea 5.08
28 Djibouti 5.06
29 Gambia 5.04
30 Gaza Strip 5.03
31 Senegal 4.95
32 Nigeria 4.91
33 Comoros 4.84
34 Togo 4.79
35 Eritrea 4.72
36 Gabon 4.65
37 Guinea-Bissau 4.65
38 Kenya 4.56
39 Sudan 4.48
40 Tanzania 4.46
41 Mauritania 4.45
42 Laos 4.41
43 Cameroon 4.33
44 Samoa 4.16
45 Central African Republic 4.14
46 Ivory Coast 4.12
47 Kiribati 4.04
48 Iraq 3.86
49 Saudi Arabia 3.83
50 Haiti 3.81

Yeah most are third world shitholes but some are rising up. The Afghanistan number shocked me. Dang, if they can get their act together they could be a world power by the end of a century.
For all those who think population control is a good idea, tell me how you would feel if you country descended into anarchy. And for those of you who finally made it to the end of the article here's Foamy going on about this (in similar style to me)