Toby Young Toby Young

Status Anxiety | 7 February 2009

I welcome Sir Jonathan Porritt’s advice about population control

issue 07 February 2009

I welcome Sir Jonathan Porritt’s advice about population control

According to Sir Jonathan Porritt, the government’s green guru, couples who have more than two children are being ‘irresponsible’. ‘I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate,’ he says.

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