Monday, 13 August 2018

IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN WHITBY (letter to Dom Post, August 14)



Here we go again. The perennial call for population control comes always from people like Randall Hughes who’ve enjoyed the good life - as we can infer from his Whitby address – and want to preserve it for themselves and their progeny.
 
The evils of hunger and global warming will never be addressed by the evil of controlling others. What means does Hughes suggest we employ? Sterilisation? It would never happen in Whitby, so that’s a safe bet.
 
What needs controlling is not breeding, but greed and consumerism in over-developed nations like ours. If each of us ate and consumed only what we need, there’d be enough to go round the whole world.
 
Hughes wants to find “a new amazing source of non-polluting energy”. We found it two thousand years ago in the word of God, so it’s hardly new, but being greedy we don't use it.

If we did, we’d live as Christ did – frugally, and sharing what we have with those who have not.

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