The London Times carried a chilling interview in their Sunday edition with Britain’s Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission. This government official boldly declares that it is “irresponsible” for people to have more than two children. To address the environmental impact of these nasty little creatures, Jonathan Porritt advocates shifting money from health care to population control programs like contraception and abortion.

This “green thinker” is not some weird professor at Princeton or Yale. This is a member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government.

As with many in the environmental movement, Mr. Porritt clearly believes that people are the problem. His ingenious proposal offers a two-fer: Reduced health care benefits means higher death rates among adults, and more coerced abortions means fewer such creatures in the future.

While this proposal may sound like “cutting edge” insight – it is just recycled trash think from the eugenics movement, now colored green.

The problem here is that the Environmental Movement has recast much of that elitist thinking and made it palatable by wrapping it with a sweet panda photo. We can, therefore, be grateful for this moment of honest insanity by Mr. Porritt because it helps us better understand the close working relationship between the Abortion Lobby and various environmental groups.