Beckhams Welcome Fourth Child, British Eco-Nuts Call Couple 'Selfish'
"The Beckhams are breeding! The Beckhams are breeding!" That's the latest battle cry that can be heard over in the UK with the news that David and Victoria Beckham have just welcomed a fourth child into the world. While that is happy news to most people, leave it to environmentalists, lefty politicians and media outlets to question the Beckhams' bundle of joy. It is, according to these critics, irresponsible to continue having children.
According to the Guardian (UK), environmentalists and politicians are using the newest addition to the Beckham family as a wake up call to "open a public debate about how many children people should have." The UN Population Division maintains that the world's population is expected to reach seven billion in late 2011.
Simon Ross, the chief executive of the Optimum Population Trust, an organization that campaigns for the "gradual decrease of the population to sustainable levels," said, "The Beckhams, and others like London mayor Boris Johnson, are very bad role models with their large families." He went on to state, "There's no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them100% by having another child."
Furthermore, Ross condemned the "horrific consequences of China's one-child policy" in one paragraph, but went on to argue that "We need to change the incentives to make the environmental case that one or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish." The Guardian reported that Ross "is calling for the government to tackle the UK's high rates of accidental pregnancy and to give child benefits and tax credits only for the first two children."
Caroline Lucas, an MP of the Green party, believes that a healthy discussion about population control is needed "whether it focuses on improving family planning or reducing global inequality" because the issue "is a debate about poverty and inequality, as well as about sustainability."
Unfortunately, prominent voices in the United States have also advocated for population control. CNN founder Ted Turner, Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates and wealthy investor Warren Buffet are among those in the "billionaire boys club" that believe "overpopulation is the greatest threat to the planet." Turner has advocated for a "one-couple, one-child" policy and has even given money to the United Nations for the purposes of population control.
What these eco-nuts in England fail to realize is that the Beckhams' situation doesn't exactly fit with the their arguments about "poverty." David Beckham's successful soccer career and subsequent endorsements and his wife Victoria's (a former Spice Girl) music sales and fashion lines make the couple worth a whopping $271 million combined. These wealthy parents aren't exactly breeding children into a life of poverty.
Let's hope that, unlike their British counterparts, the American media encourage the Beckhams to stimulate the American economy by spending their money and raising as many children as they'd like to have here.
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They argue for reproductive freedom and now against it?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 12:44pm.
The Beckhams have more than enough money to raise their children. I doubt they are living in a council flat or drawing welfare money.
Brits crack me up.
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 12:51pm.
They are (not) breeding themselves into extinction while muslims and other immigrants in England are pounding out children faster than socialized medicine can keep up. It would be racist to criticize them, wouldn't it?
Eco-nuts are extremely self-destructive
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 1:26pm.
They'll figure it out when their Muslim masters force them to print up signs with Londonistan on them.
Of course, it will be too late by then.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
You eco-freaks go ahead and
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 2:06pm.
You eco-freaks go ahead and abort yourselves out of existence. When you're all aborted, or dead of old age because your stem cells didn't really make you immortal, those of us who truly care about this world will still be here with our children to take over. And good riddance to you.
But since you don't believe in God, and think you have nothing to look forward to but rot, decay and oblivion in the grave, you can take comfort in knowing that when you die, it'll be party time for all the little wormies. You'll be doing your beloved earth-mother a favor by providing mulch and compost through all your rotting corpses.
The birth rate amongst the
Submitted by jdhawk on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 2:28pm.
The birth rate amongst the natives of each of the European countries is so low as to not be able to replinsh those that die. However, Moslem immigration is reversing that trend to the detriment of the freedom and prosperity of those very same countries.
Here is Fox News report that illustrates, in part, the issue: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510364,00.html
two can play at that game
Submitted by russedav on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 2:32pm.
If it's OK to oppose couples having "more kids than you think they should" it's also OK to oppose couples having "less kids than you think they should" which means to avoid hypocrisy they'd be glad to oppose abortion on demand so couples don't fail to reproduce. A child can biologically NEVER be part of a woman's body and the simple bitter truth is that many countries, including the US, will be unable to sustain their civilization due to the gravely and likely fatally accelerating population decline. God isn't mocked; those who sow the wind reap the whirlwind; only He can save us now, He to Whom we've done little but raise the phallus and middle finger in contempt daring Him to punish us, and now the deadly bill is soon coming due.
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Submitted by Eugenia on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 2:54pm.
Who do they think is going to work and pay into the lofty welfare system that's bankrupting these socialist countries? These radical enviro-nazis can't see past their earth worship.
Nine words too many
Submitted by Model850 on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 4:39pm.
Simon Ross: "There's no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them 100% by having another child."
He spoke nine words too many. Should've shut his yap after "emissions."
Congratulations to the Beckhams!
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 5:38pm.
Congratulations to the Beckhams! Children are a blessing, and should be cherished as such.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones?
Submitted by mattm on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 8:47pm.
Here are their 10 suggestions:
1.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2.Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3.Unite humanity with a living new language.
4.Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5.Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6.Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7.Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8.Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
In order for number 1 to come to pass they will somehow have to wipe out 92% of the world's population. They should lead by example and hold a world-wide mass-greenie-suicide.
Scary
Submitted by GW on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 10:26am.
One or two of them by themselves sound okay, but taken altogether, those are pretty scary.
Let me help
Submitted by panzerakc on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 11:13pm.
Neither my sister or I have chosen to have children. Given the average family probably consists of two children, I hereby donate my child credits (and I sure sis would as well) to the Beckhams. Four that we didn't have balances out the four that they did have.
Congratulations to the Beckhams on their new baby.
Poofters Unite!
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 4:20am.
The UK Gay comunity does nothing to defend itself against the Mslims, So attacking their normal UK citizens is all they can do.