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  ??? Are you accusing me of hystreria Philip? I was merely posting a link.
  
  Your argument is big on sentimentality but short on facts. You invoke gooey images but what you overlook is that it is not just a question of numbers of people, but the resources that the human population is consuming at an unsustainable rate. And what about animals and their babies? Are we the only species that matters? What about all the other species that we hunt to extinction and enslave, and whose habitats we relentlessly destroy? It is a fact that we are consuming resources at twice the rate that the planet can sustain.
  
  As for your apocryphal remark about villages, it is not only ill-informed and patronising, it ignores the fact that what is proposed at Whitfield is a contrived four-fold increase in population with no inherent driver behind it other than a council decision.
  
  It is more than a little naive to imagine that the health of the planet - and the well-being and happiness of humans, for that matter - is not being negatively impacted by relentless economic growth and population explosion.

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