The Real Inconvenient Truth

A Canadian journalist writes that debates about cap-and-trade subsidies, wind farms, and climate science are really missing the point: what the world needs desperately is to adopt China's one child policy.  According to Diane Francis of The Financial Post,

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.

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.

As Rod Dreher points out, the one child policy is proving highly problematic for long-term social health, even in China.