That sounds like quite the sustainability strategy. The “Oh Good Grief” award, along with Wall of Shame dishonor, goes to this piece by Lloyd Alter published on TreeHugger:
The Chinese government makes the Wall of Shame today for efforts to gin up population growth. Our disappointment mounts in the wake of a recent announcement about “success” in these efforts.
Can you believe it? This is getting to be a routine occurrence – media coverage of young women reconsidering bringing children into a world already so overpopulated we’re damaging the Earth’s life-support systems we depend on.
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