Comments on: UN Panel on Climate Change

By: Decry

Decry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:14:15 +0000

“The biggest threat …is the dizzying increase in the numbers of people driving those cows and then eating them. The world’s population is up to 6.72 billion, and set to rise to 9 billion by 2050.”

Let me suggest you link this blog to your site:
http://www.optimumpopulation.org/blog/

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By: Decry

Decry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:06:17 +0000

Mumbai’s Daily News & Analysis sarcastically calls the recommendation “a new rule to abide by, for the virtuous earthling,” comparing it to a forthcoming big-brother style ban on smoking in public places.
Brilliant. Yes, where is my ‘virtuous earthling’ badge?!

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By: Reflexology london

Reflexology london — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:16:46 +0000

Boris,
Agreed !
The only way to save the planet is to advance our technology.
We’re meat eaters definitly.

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By: susanna

susanna — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:30:55 +0000

Boris, forget lentilburgers and knitted muesli – think dahl and chapattis, think matar panir (cheese cubes with mint and tomato, chickpeas and potato cubes in coconut sauce, cauliflower and potato with peas, broccoli and spinach puree, diced potatoes with tumeric and cumin, pumpkin foogath, yam curry, spinach eggplant and chickpeas, lemon rice, rice with peas and turmeric and chilli. Please try these things.

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By: Roly

Roly — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:10:57 +0000

Very droll Boris. But I don’t quite follow your logic. Cutting back on the bovine population is positively barmy and puts people out of work however cutting back on people is a much easier prospect.

The reality is that the issue of human population is not ignored but is very complex and fraught with difficulty. So whilst we’re trying to get to grips with it and we must, it seems eminently sensible to suggest we cut back on meat and as a nice bonus lose a bit of weight and live a bit longer (which of course adds to the problem). Never know, you may make it to 2050 after all Boris!

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By: Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:05:40 +0000

So you’re encouraging people to eat more meat in defiance of the IPCCs evidence. What a big man you are. let’s hope you choke on a juicy piece of conservative-party-supported-brazilian beef before you see the worlds population hit 9bn. In fact the sooner the better! Of course it would be best if we all did turn vege, so that the rainforest were not to be exhausted, it would be best if no one drove or had children either, and yes, these notions are beyond reality. Im definately not going to give up meat and i wouldnt force anyone to either. Unfortunately, however, you are a leader and a role model and you should be encouraging us to eat at least a little less meat in response to the UN findings, if only for our health, rather than throw them back in their faces like the ignorant twat that you are. If only we could replace you with someone grown up enough to be doing what’s best for us, maybe getting more cars off the road, encouraging car sharing, improving public transport – yeah right – who am I kidding? Not even half a year in charge and our tube fares are rising. I dread to think how London will loook by the end of your foolish regime. Why did they vote for you!?

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By: paul heistein

paul heistein — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:30:06 +0000

Hi Boris, you’re talking bullshit! Remember any O-level Maths? It goes like this:
Population x Personal Footprint = Environmental Impact
Now Present Population won’t change unless you shoot people (not good for getting votes) but Personal Footprint drops drastically if you eat less meat. Any sensible politicial who wants to reduce Environmental Impact plays with the variables he has at hand, which comes down to eating less meat. So clean up your bullshit, kill your holy cows and you’ll win votes to get re-elected. Cheers, Paul

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By: Mike Harrison

Mike Harrison — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:12:16 +0000

In fact, when is someone going to stand up to the enviromaniacs who don’t seem to be clear what they are campaigning against? The IPCC panel were pleased to be able to announce a 90% chance that global warming (itself a nonsense term) was due to man’s activities. 90% is statistical hogwash. The northern hemisphere has been warming at night in winter since about 1835, by about 1degC a century. Warming is happening as a result of natural cycles much bigger than the imaginations of climate ’scientists’. I guess you will be familiar with Karl Popper’s white swan/black swan proposal? So why don’t the BBC/Sunday Times look for evidence that doesn’t support the fairy tale (there’s lots of it)? Meanwhile I – and you – am paying £14 per energy bill towards a meaningless gesture supposed to stop the unstoppable. And after the expenditure of trillions of dollars over several decades we might slow warming down by about a week: but gosh, we’ll feel so holy. Meanwhile what remains of British (and American, if Obama crumbles to the PC argument) manufacturing will have gone offshore to countries who have no intention of cutting emissions, Gore’s carbon-broking company will have cleaned up, and our economy will be based entirely (as Rod Liddle suggests) on ectoplasm.

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By: Svarteper

Svarteper — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:18:14 +0000

Haha! That was a very stupid article. First Mr. Johnson claims people can’t change their meat eating habits because eating meet is part of human nature. Then he claims that the real problem is people reprodusing as if the urge for sex was NOT part of aur instincts.

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By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:12:08 +0000

Wow.

You guys seriously elected this man?
Say what you want about us Americans, but at least we didn’t *actually* vote for George W. Bush the first time.

Yeesh.

- David from Ohio, USA

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