Outrageous Statement of the Day

"The Beckhams, and others like London mayor Boris Johnson, are very bad role models with their large families. There's no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them 100% by having another child... We need to change the incentives to make the environmental case that one or two children are fine but three or four are just being selfish."

—Simon Ross, chief executive of Optimum Population Trust, speaking in Britain's the Guardian about the birth of soccer star David Beckham's fourth child.