Citing world population at the time of Jesus, the leader of the Green Party in Canada, Elizabeth May, has called for population reduction.

Addressing the purported "crisis" of world over population, the environmental party declares the "world's population has been growing at an exponential rate. Two thousand years ago, when the historical Jesus of Nazareth was born, he was one of an estimated 200 million people on the planet."

The ideal world population number cited by the Green Party is more drastic than that proposed by the Georgia Guidestones, which put the preferred number at 500 million. The Guidestones number would require the elimination of nine-tenths of the world population.

In July May declared Western countries must adopt an official two-child policy similar to China's one-child policy. She backed off on the demand after Canadians protested.

May told Vice News her views on world population and government mandated policies dictating the number of allowable children are not controversial.