Lord Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, shatters the Anglican consensus on immigration
None of his fellow bishops has signed the document, which says:
"We are gravely concerned about the rapid increase in the population of England that is now forecast. We note that the official projections show the population of the UK will increase from 61.4 million in 2008 to exceed 70 million by 2029. Over the next 25 years the population will increase by 10 million, nearly all of the increase being in England. 70% – 7 million – will be due to immigration. We believe that immigration on such a scale will have a significant impact on our public services, our quality of life and on the nature of our society."
From report in the Telegraph
These are not the priorities of the Kingdom of God, and the Church should not be associated with it. It was very wrong of Lord Carey to sign. "What on earth is the Church for?"
2 comments:
Whether or not the predicted population increase is due to immigration something needs to be done about population. It is not at all Christian to approve of population rises that run a huge risk of catastrophic population reduction in the next 100 years. Many of the climate models show most of Southern Europe to be uninhabitable by 2100 at current CO2 emission levels.
See Is Global Warming a threat because of overpopulation?.
The high risk of a murderous effect of population expansion is obvious. If food prices become astronomical and food exports embargoed large numbers of British people will die. It will kill new British Citizens as much as those who have great-grandparents who were British. The precautionary population of the UK (that which can be sustained by the UK) is probably nearer 40 million than 70 million.
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The point is not about world population - I don't disagree that the world population should be controlled. This is about the UK putting up barriers to look after its own interests "our public services, our quality of life and ... the nature of our society".
Jesus didn't say "we need those five loaves and two fishes for ourselves, send the 5000 away" he said 'share them'.
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