After one meeting (albeit a lengthy one) this article was forwarded to me three times.
It’s Diane Francis of the Financial Post declaring we should all officially adopt China’s One Child Policy.
I think it’s satire. From what I know of Diane Francis, she’s not an idiot. But this is the sort of drastic and unattainable policy that some would think completely normal and/or useful in combatting “climate change.”
Paragraphs like this one lead me to believe this is a ruse:
The fix is simple. It’s dramatic. And yet the world’s leaders don’t even have this on their agenda in Copenhagen. Instead there will be photo ops, posturing, optics, blah-blah-blah about climate science and climate fraud, announcements of giant wind farms, then cap-and-trade subsidies.
You bet they don’t have it on their agenda at Copenhagen… And maybe we need a few more articles like this to highlight how the climate change file is a crazy one.
Anyway, vote now: satire or not? I say it is.
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Andrea adds: I stand corrected. Apparently, Ms. Francis is, with a straight face, advocating for the totalitarian impulses of Communist China to be applied To. The. Planet (insert echo voice here).
And apparently, I must get rid of my optimistic tendencies–this impulse that would have me see the best in everyone. Misguided! Oi ve.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think it is satire. Diane Francis was on the John Oakley Show (640 AM in Toronto) on November 24 and again today advocating the one-child policy and promoting abortion as the sensible and necessary thing to do to control an out of control population. Those times I have seen her speak in person, she has also raised the issue and there was never any indication that it was not a serious proposal on her behalf.
I would also disagree that Diane Francis is not an idiot. She has fallen for the charms of Barack Obama, fretted about global climate change, and resorts to tired leftist arguments about geopolitics. She might be inclined to a pro-business position, but even that is suspect at times. The Diane Francis of 2009 is not the Diane Francis that promoted free enterprise and personal liberty in the 1990s. I wish I were wrong, because the old Diane was a much more insightful read.
Thanks, Paul.
I think I’ve been living in the 1990s Diane zone; the eternal optimist in me thought this can’t be real.
This modest proposal is right up there with eating babies to solve the problem of hungry people.
I agree with Paul’s assessment based on what I’ve read of her recently. Too bad – because I used to love her.
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http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/11/18/i-love-sarah-palin.aspx
Paul Tuns hit the bull’s-eye. Here is a minor clarification of terminology.
Idiot is a medical term, still in use, denoting a degree of Mental Retardation. A person, once normal, who loses his/her marbles, is properly called demented.
In Diane Francis’ case, it may be Dementia Liberalis, chronically progressive form.
Dementia Liberalis afflicts persons of any age, gender, race, or sexual orientation. It is an equal opportunity disease of the intellect and morals, epidemic in North America, and difficult to treat. Shock treatment is currently showing promise. There is no vaccine against it, yet.
If left untreated, the condition becomes irreversible. Diane Francis may have crossed that point.