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  Ali, Shahrar
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NameShahrar Ali
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InfoShahrar Ali is the Green parlimentary candidate for Brent East

Dr Shahrar Ali is a part-time lecturer in philosophy and applied ethics.

His PhD from UCL developed "A Theory of Intentional Deception and Lying", with examples from political life including the UK government's illicit use of a PhD thesis.

Shahrar believes that the Green Party enjoins the only political philosophy that can transform society for the common good and maintain environment. In Brent, he mounted a campaign to save a historic school building from demolition by Lord Foster and the council.

Shahrar has worked in the STOA Unit of the European Parliament in Luxembourg to assess the risk to the environment from GMOs. In 2003, he co-authored a Green Party submission to the UK government's GM science review.

Shahrar has been outspoken in public to end Guantanamo injustice. He is also interested in GM and the EU constitution.

Shahrar took an active role in the recent Brent-East by-election campaign.


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I:0Greg Kaye ( 0.0000 points)
Tue, August 18, 2015 08:01:10 AM UTC0:00
At a fundamental level the politicker Shahrar Ali is not a green representative but betrays core principles of a genuine green policy. Due to this it's insane immigration policies and the catastrophic effects that this will have on any conception of the sustainability of the United Kingdom (also within the context of their abject failure to even consider the fundamental problem human overpopulation) the party that he misleads is fundamentally THE LEAST GREEN PARTY of any major political group in England and Wales. UKIP and, yes, both the tories AND labour are certainly FAR GREENER.

The unavoidably sad fact is that countries with high population densities (such as many in Europe and exemplified by the UK) already have need to import vast amounts of food simply so as to feed their own burgeoning and inflating populations. Much of this food is already imported from a wide range of countries including those from which people are leaving. Many of these countries, especially in locations from Africa to Afghanistan, have exceedingly high birthrates. This is very clearly illustrated on the map of countries by fertility rate presented at: [Link] .

In comparison, the relatively slow natural population growth of European countries remains much more closely in line with the rate of improvement in food production. Never-the-less, the population of the UK is already way in excess of the environmental factor of "overshoot". See: [Link] and [Link]

The UK is already far from being anywhere near a sustainable situation. This in even in a situation in which we use a relatively very small proportion of our agricultural area for the production of fuel. Our sustainability situation will be critical in any conceivable situation in which we may imagine the UK as being beyond its dependency on non-renewable resources. In short, we already have way to many people. Until we are in a situation in which we stop importing food, It makes no sense to import yet more people.

In comparison rates of population growth in many of the countries that people are leaving are way in excess of rates of improvements in food production techniques.

It also makes absolutely no environmental sense to take people from countries where per capita resource use is low and allow the import of such people into countries where per capita resource use is high. It makes no sense to import both people and food into the same densely populated areas. People should have support and opportunity in their own countries of origin. Destabilizing and prejudiced regimes that prompt attempts at migration should be opposed. Population concern organisations (such as at www.populationmatters.org/) should be urgently referenced and supported.

If anything potential migrants should be informed of the relevant facts regarding the global economic and environmental situation because, every migrant that makes it into countries like the UK, just adds to the problem of the global situation. Problems need to be solved at source. High stands of general education needs to be encouraged with particular attention given to the education and equal empowerment of women across the world, both because these issues are of fundamental importance for human rights as well as because the education and empowerment of woman has been proven to check the spiraling growth of population. Groups that oppose these principles and who act so as to displace populations, themselves, need to be opposed.

For the related David Attenborough documentary search on: How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth

Quote: 'Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.' Kenneth Boulding

Whether we like it or not there are limits

I am a passionate green but I can't stand back and see this wholesale ecological idiocy of this anti-green party. These anti-greens need to either return to practically environmental agendas or leave the party to those that will.

This man's outputs have a notable absence of environmental content. Why the hell does he think he has a place in a group called the "Green Party"?

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  09/07/2022 UK Green Party Deputy Leader Lost 0.00% (-54.84%)
  09/23/2021 Green Party of England & Wales Leadership Lost 0.00% (-61.65%)
  08/31/2020 UK Green Party - Leadership Lost 0.00% (-61.81%)
  12/12/2019 UK Parliament - Bethnal Green & Bow Lost 4.24% (-68.50%)
  02/14/2019 London Mayor - GRN Selection Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
  08/31/2018 UK Green Party - Leadership Lost 17.50% (-58.04%)
  08/25/2016 UK Green Party - Deputy Leadership Lost 21.14% (-35.98%)
  05/07/2015 UK Parliament - Brent Central Lost 4.07% (-58.05%)
  09/07/2014 UK Green Party - Deputy Leadership Won 50.71% (+1.43%)
  05/03/2012 Greater London Assembly - Brent & Harrow Lost 7.27% (-41.26%)
  03/20/2011 London Mayor - GRN Selection Lost 19.53% (-47.72%)
  05/06/2010 UK Parliament - Brent Central Lost 1.47% (-42.71%)
  05/01/2008 Greater London Assembly - Brent & Harrow Lost 6.54% (-30.73%)
  03/12/2007 London Mayor - GRN Selection Lost 17.00% (-28.00%)
  05/04/2006 London Borough of Brent Council - Queen's Park Lost 4.96% (-8.82%)
  05/05/2005 UK Parliament - Brent East Lost 2.91% (-44.61%)
  06/10/2004 London Assembly - Brent & Harrow Lost 5.94% (-28.05%)
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