Sleepless Nights at Canada’s Financial Post

Is Diane Francis over at the Financial Post swilling Kool Aide or has she just been taking lessons from China Booster and UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong?

“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,” Francis wrote in a Dec. 8 Financial Post column.

Humankind overpopulating the world? How terribly inconvenient!

Francis, who usually keeps tabs on the financial world, has come up with the answer for saving the world: Don’t have children.

“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.

“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.”

Throw in the polar bears and Al Gore couldn’t have said it better himself.

So all on her own, Francis like Pogo has discovered the enemy: It is us.

China cheerleaders Maurice Strong and George Soros make way for a loud new member of the inner fold.

“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.

Newborn babies in this kind of thinking become “environmental degradation”?

The China delegates in Copenhagen yesterday pushing population control as key to the cap and trade deal couldn’t have been more pleased with the cheers from the Land of the Maple Leaf, which has already gifted the world with Maurice Strong and Greenpeace.

On the very day they made their presentation, Francis’ column advocating “The whole world needs to adopt China’s one-child policy” was already posted on the Drudge Report.

Like so many environmentalists who want to save the environment by denying electricity and modern comforts to third world populations, Francis worries that “humankind has not yet recalibrated its behaviour to account for the fact that the world can only accommodate so may people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars”.

She argues that since 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”.

The Canadian scribe could have added that China’s citizens get thrown in jail for posting to the internet and are “disappeared” if caught attending Christian church service.

In the democratic Peoples Republic of China, the the killing off of of its citizens is an even deadlier means of depopulation than the one-child policy.

Life is not worry free for Diane Francis, who worries about 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.”

Don’t know how Diane Francis sleeps at night.

Meanwhile, the Financial Post is overpopulated by at least one.