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05/12/2008: "Prince Philip criticises global overpopulation"

"Food prices are going up," he tells his interviewer, Sir Trevor McDonald. "Everyone thinks it's to do with not enough food, but it's really that demand is too great too many people. Basically, it's a little embarrassing for everybody. No one quite knows how to handle it. Nobody wants their family life to be interfered with by the government."

Whether Philip, who has four children with the Queen and eight grandchildren, is contemplating a Chinese-style one-child policy for Britain or other, more radical ideas, remains unknown.

"You've got to be fairly hard-hearted about it. Conservation is not a romantic business. It's a very practical business, trying to ensure as many different species of wildlife can exist, and which means in some cases controlling some so the others can have a better chance."

[ Since he appreciates that some species (read: ethnicities?) need controlling to give others a chance I can't see him suggesting the Brits need to reduce their negative birth rate even further. ]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3908588.ece?Submitted=true