Europe: Indifferent To Their Own Demise

Mark Steyn riffs on Live Earth and its dead TV ratings, before noting, “Professor Chris Rapley, head honcho of the British Antarctic Survey, turned up on the BBC to argue that population control is central to the environmental debate”:

How many Englishmen, Scotsmen, Greeks or Italians are around in the year 2050 will have no measurable impact on so-called “climate change.” None whatsoever. Having fewer British or Spanish babies will do nothing for the polar bear on the ice floes posing for Al Gore’s next documentary. But how many British and Spanish babies are born right now