Ted Turner

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(Media tycoon)
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BornRobert Edward Turner III
1938-11-19
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
Children5
SpouseJulia Gale Nye
Founder ofNuclear Threat Initiative
Member ofPopulation Institute, The Giving Pledge, The Good Club
Interests“Overpopulation”

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. He is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel.

Overpopulation

Turner has long been known as a champion of population control. In 1996, he put $125 million into a foundation to support environmental and population control efforts in the U.S. and abroad. The endowment spends about $6 million a year on projects designed to lower the world's population from the present six billion people to two billion or less.[1]

The billionaire, who has 5 children himself, wants "fertility rights" to be sold, so that poor people "could profit from their decision not to reproduce".[2]


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