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How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change (Obama's America)
The Atlantic ^ | Monday, March 12, 2012 | Ross Anderson

Posted on 03/12/2012 5:53:12 PM PDT by kristinn

Liao: Well one of the things that we noticed is that human ecological footprints are partly correlated with size. Each kilogram of body mass requires a certain amount of food and nutrients and so, other things being equal, the larger person is the more food and energy they are going to soak up over the course of a lifetime. There are also other, less obvious ways in which larger people consume more energy than smaller people---for example a car uses more fuel per mile to carry a heavier person, more fabric is needed to clothe larger people, and heavier people wear out shoes, carpets and furniture at a quicker rate than lighter people, and so on.

And so size reduction could be one way to reduce a person's ecological footprint. For instance if you reduce the average U.S. height by just 15cm, you could reduce body mass by 21% for men and 25% for women, with a corresponding reduction in metabolic rates by some 15% to 18%, because less tissue means lower energy and nutrient needs.

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Liao: That's right. It's been suggested that, given the seriousness of climate change, we ought to adopt something like China's one child policy. There was a group of doctors in Britain who recently advocated a two-child maximum. But at the end of the day those are crude prescriptions---what we really care about is some kind of fixed allocation of greenhouse gas emissions per family. If that's the case, given certain fixed allocations of greenhouse gas emissions, human engineering could give families the choice between two medium sized children, or three small sized children. From our perspective that would be more liberty enhancing than a policy that says "you can only have one or two children."....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eugenics; gaschambers; nazi; smatthewliao
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To: kristinn

The left has always dreamt of a New Soviet Man...


21 posted on 03/12/2012 6:13:35 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1147 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: kristinn

(Obama’s America)

Till January 20th 2013.


22 posted on 03/12/2012 6:14:43 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
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To: magslinger

I’d like this twit to look up at me and tell me this BS.

I’m 5’18” btw.


23 posted on 03/12/2012 6:15:11 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: GeronL
Skip the intermediate steps and eliminate all animal life except for plant eating ants.

24 posted on 03/12/2012 6:16:24 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: Pollster1

“We represent the Communist guild..the Communist guild...the Communist guild..We represent the Communist guiiiild! We welcome you to O-ba-ma land!”


25 posted on 03/12/2012 6:18:50 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
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To: kristinn

They should run this theory by Representitive Jerry Nadler.


26 posted on 03/12/2012 6:20:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: kristinn
"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the
properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold.
It's said now that people will be shorter in height, they can fit
twice as many in the same building site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnNXGRGIzQ

27 posted on 03/12/2012 6:27:12 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: kristinn

And if you might potentially have a third medium child you can kill it for a dollar.


28 posted on 03/12/2012 6:40:34 PM PDT by A message
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To: dirtboy

6-7 and gassy? No problem light’em up with a match — saves on heat


29 posted on 03/12/2012 6:42:44 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Get them out by Friday.
You don’t get paid
Till the last ones well on his way.

They’ve been working on this idea since 1972.


30 posted on 03/12/2012 6:47:07 PM PDT by A message
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To: kristinn

Sounds like a comedy routine proposing a human race of dwarves...

Handled correctly this administration could actually be laughed out of the White-Hut..
Might help the war on drugs since a dwarf would require less DOPE to get high..
Less water to get clean and less cotton to make clothing..


31 posted on 03/12/2012 6:53:55 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: kristinn

He looks like a ChiCom....


32 posted on 03/12/2012 6:55:10 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Who are you and what have you done with Ann Coulter?!)
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To: kristinn

They don’t need to be all that high tech about it - genetic engineering, pshaw. Feudal masters discovered millennia ago that denying their serfs a protein rich diet resulted in physically smaller and weaker populations. Of course that made dominating the peasantry with the threat of physical violence all the more effective - another feature I’m sure these Nazi freaks would also find attractive.


33 posted on 03/12/2012 6:59:03 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: kristinn

We should all march to DC and reduce our weight...55 grains at a time. Or 62 grains. Or even 150 grains at a time if you prefer the heavier caliber.


34 posted on 03/12/2012 7:00:26 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: kristinn
Besides bioengineering humans to be smaller, we should also bioengineer our skins to contain chlorophyll so we can absorb nutrients directly from the sun.

That way when the Martians come out of their undergound caverns to visit Earth they will be happy when they are welcomed by little green men.

35 posted on 03/12/2012 7:18:24 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: kristinn

Ironically, another “scientific” study was posted here, I think yesterday, arguing that global warming would make people smaller. That was presented as a bad thing.

Put these two articles together, however, and it demonstrates that global warming automatically cancels itself out.


36 posted on 03/12/2012 7:19:59 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kristinn
And so size reduction could be one way to reduce a person's ecological footprint. For instance if you reduce the average U.S. height by just 15cm, you could reduce body mass by 21% for men and 25% for women, with a corresponding reduction in metabolic rates by some 15% to 18%, because less tissue means lower energy and nutrient needs.

How did that work for North Korea?

37 posted on 03/12/2012 7:24:25 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: kristinn

Let’s reengineer humanity for a fraud.


38 posted on 03/12/2012 7:27:44 PM PDT by magellan
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To: kristinn

These folks are 180 degree’s out of sane.


39 posted on 03/12/2012 7:32:35 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: kristinn

Here’s his blog. He allows comments. Happy FReeping!

http://ethics-etc.com/


40 posted on 03/12/2012 7:34:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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