Oona calls for population control on LBC

During a review of the papers Oona picked out a story in the Times about population. She started by saying;

OK –‘It is an important issue – how are we going to carry on doubling the size of our population – it won’t work’

KM – ‘I have three kids, does that make me a bad person?’

OK – ‘I think it might, not a bad person per se but in terms of saving the planet you haven’t done your bit...’


and later she said;


OK – ‘I think at a certain point we have to perhaps we are going to seriously – obviously we’re not going to go down the Chinese route... erm which is just disastrous... but on the other hand they did realise it would be disastrous for their country if they carried on down that route of population explosion’

OK – ‘but the serious point is that we have to recognise that the biggest pressure on the world’s resources is the population and is impacting everything and it will impact the quality of life our kids have, and given that there are so many children who don’t find a home, you would hope that people might look at how they can reduce their personal footprint by going beyond 2, 3, 4, 5 kids'

KM – 'So that’s Oona King’s big policy now is two kids and no more in London...'

OK - ‘Can I just say that this is going to be tweeted out it the worse possible way... I am just saying lets be responsible about the worlds resources...’

- It does beg the question, is there a good way to tweet that you think people should not go beyond 2,3,4,5 kids?

LBC RADIO - 28/08/2010, 11.54am