Compassionate Environmentalist: Mother Earth needs fewer mothers

I already have two kids, but there’s no plan to stop. How irresponsible of me:

This week, the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which Mr Porrit is a patron, launched its “Stop at Two” online pledge to encourage couples to limit their family’s size.

Mr. Porritt said earlier this month: “I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible.”

For those of us who can’t control ourselves and can’t think of anyone but ourselves, rest easy. Porritt is not advocating a compulsory limit of two children per couple, but he did say couples should “connect up their concerns with the natural environment with their decisions as prospective parents.”

I mean, come on:

“Every additional human being is increasing the burden on this planet which is becoming increasingly intolerable,” says Mr Porritt, who runs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission.

If they are that concerned about the environment, it’s a wonder they don’t abandon civilized life as we know it.

Feb. 17, 2009: Now just another, ordinary day

Last night, WHIO ran an hour-long special from 7 to 8 p.m. explaining every. single. minute. detail about the Feb. 17 switch to digital television. So I missed Wheel of Fortune last night for nothing?!

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered 123 broadcast television stations, including Dayton’s major network channels, to cease their planned early switch to digital signals on Feb. 17.

The stations, which had been previously granted permission, now must stop the transition until further notice, the FCC announced…

Recent legislation has set June 12 as the new date of transition…

“Millions of Americans, including those in our most vulnerable communities, would have been left in the dark if the conversion had gone on as planned, and this solution is an important step forward as we work to get the nation ready for digital TV,” Obama said.

Apparently two years of ads, a free coupon for digital converter boxes, endless reminders on local TV and even a NASCAR sponsorship weren’t enough to prepare us all for “the transition.”

It was enough to give me a migraine.