What is the Optimum Population Trust?

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.aboutus.html

The Optimum Population Trust is the leading environmental charity and think tank in the UK concerned with the impact of population growth on the environment. OPT research covers population in relation to climate change, energy, resources, biodiversity, development impacts, ageing and employment and other environmental and economic issues. It campaigns for stabilisation and gradual population decrease globally and in the UK. OPT is a registered charity and is financed by its members. It receives funding neither from the government nor from any political or business interests, and is not affiliated to any other organisation*.(*Except as a partner in the Global Footprint Network.)

MAIN AIMS

· To advance the education of the public in issues relating to human population worldwide and its impact on environmental sustainability;

· To advance, promote and encourage research to determine optimum and ecologically sustainable human population levels in all or any part or parts of the world and to publicise the results of such research;

· To advance environmental protection by promoting policies in the United Kingdom or any other part or parts of the world which will lead or contribute to the achievement of stable human population levels which allow environmental sustainability.

PATRONS

Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS , Naturalist, broadcaster and trustee of the British Museum and Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; and a former controller of BBC Two.

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge

Professor Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University.

In Paul Ehrlich and John P Holdren’s (Obama Science Czar) book “Ecoscience” they wrote that:

* Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;

* The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;

* Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;

* People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.

* A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.

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Jane Goodall PhD DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace.

Professor John Guillebaud Former Co-chair of OPT, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College, London.

Susan Hampshire OBE, Actress and population campaigner

Dr James Lovelock CBE FRS Scientist and environmentalist known for proposing the Gaia theory that the Earth functions as an organism, and author of 'The Revenge of Gaia'.

Professor Aubrey Manning OBE, President of the Wildlife Trusts and Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh

Professor Norman Myers CMG, Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University, and at Universities of Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, California, Michigan and Texas

Sara Parkin OBE, Founder Director and Trustee of Forum for the Future, Director of the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Head Teachers into Industry.

Jonathon Porritt CBE, Founder Director of Forum for the Future and former Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.

Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Chancellor of Kent University, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute, Oxford, and former UK Permanent Representative on the United Nations Security Council

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