Optimum Population Trust - a British charity wants you to have no more than 2 kids!

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Being a young proud father of 2 kids and planning for #3, I found myself dumbfounded by the latest communqué from these creepy Brits - the Optimum Population Trust : on the news last night was the statement that choosing to have a 3rd kid was the equivalent of pumping additional greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere of approx. 620 round-trip transatlantic plainrides!

These creeps base their theories on Luddite, Club of Rome & Club of Lisbon post-Malhtusian freakonomics...

For more guestimates on current population size: see the US Census at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html (it stood at 6,593,737,707 at the time of this post)

• should we feel guilty?
• should we feel guilty that we do not live in a 3rd world country?
• should we feel guilty that we're able to get up in the morning?
  

My Big Fat Green Wedding

Interestingly, more and more couples are turning their weddings "green"...
Below are some extracts from an Independent article!

• The dress came from Oxfam, the food was organic, and the guests had to offset their air-miles
• conflic-free diamonds
• a fashionable wedding website instead of sending out massive paper invitations
• no flower shipped in from Kenya...
• a gas-converted Bentley for the couple to be driven around
• fairtrade food...
• gifts: training of school teachers...
• an eco-friendly wedding trip