BBC presenter’s appeal on size of today’s families

It would need to be a wildlife presenter to call for smaller families (April 6)! For me this has uncivil connotations. Why should a media person with the BBC pontificate on the size of the family as he contended that “we’re not addressing the one single factor that’s putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other – namely the ever-increasing size of the world’s population”.

His stance runs counter to the present Conservative government’s attempt to help families have more children so that there would be enough workers in future to support an aging population in answer to the widespread problem in the developed nations. Might it be that the BBC Autumnwatch and Springwatch have falling viewer numbers and would like to create a sensation and get some backing from the pro-abortion lobby as Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama did to win the US presidency over his more mature rival?

Given the way he is airing his opinions, might not Chris Packham, rather than working for the BBC, switch over to the payroll of the British Labour Party or one of the more far left fringe groups? But then the BBC has for some time now been a hotbed of leftists and progressives still believing in discredited ideologies.