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Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
NPR.org ^ | August 18, 2016 | Jennifer Ludden

Posted on 08/19/2016 5:01:27 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments

Americans and other rich nations produce the most carbon emissions per capita, he says. Yet people in the world's poorest nations are most likely to suffer severe climate impacts, "and that seems unfair," he says.

There's also a moral duty to future generations that will live amid the climate devastation being created now.

"Here's a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them," Rieder says.

His arguments sound pretty persuasive in the classroom. At home, it was a different matter.

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To: Forgotten Amendments

Climate Optimums are when population expands: Happened during the Roman and Medieval, why should the Modern be any different?


41 posted on 08/19/2016 6:01:21 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I shot a woman in Punta Gorda, just to watch her die)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Liberals shouldn’t, under any circumstances. Their parenting skills are non-existent.


42 posted on 08/19/2016 6:01:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: disndat

Wait, that came out wrong.

(That’s what SHE said)


43 posted on 08/19/2016 6:19:54 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Every word the "News Media" prints these days are a lie, including "and" and "the".)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I actually read many anti-AGW comments. Lots of liberal bashing. It was great. Couple of real freaks tho...
Did you sort by newest? :)


44 posted on 08/19/2016 6:57:41 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: Forgotten Amendments

No to kids HUGE YES to 30M illegals.


45 posted on 08/19/2016 7:36:42 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Hillary's nominatin = 60's Violence. "Constant conflict is actually often good politics"-Clinton)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Wrong question and premise. Correct question: Why should the US taxpayer continue to fund NPR, a rabid left wing purveyor of lies, disinformation, and propaganda?


46 posted on 08/19/2016 7:41:12 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

H. L. Mencken

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/hlmencke101109.html


47 posted on 08/19/2016 8:08:45 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: morphing libertarian

Christopher Hitchens may have been a liberal atheist, but he was willing to criticize Islam as a threat to women’s rights and democracy and relativistic ethics that demote people.
When Peter Singer said he didn’t see a baby chimp as different from a baby human, Hitchens response was that he felt sorry for Singer’s children if he had any, and that the baby should be worth much more.

So not all liberal secularists demonize humanity - but the Earth worshiping cult has definitely come to dominate atheism. Social justice is infiltrating it, too, where there are atheists complaining about the SJW domination of the last big atheist convention and silencing the mostly white male attendees as privileged.


48 posted on 08/19/2016 8:28:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ETL

In the “Battlefield Earth” book series, homosexuality was promoted as a means of birth control by alien invaders.
Not even L. Ron Hubbard thought of transgenderism that sterilizes you while breaking down social roles.


49 posted on 08/19/2016 8:29:34 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Forgotten Amendments

This “Have no kids to save the planet” crap has been a leftist meme for decades.


50 posted on 08/19/2016 8:30:05 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Definitely ! All adherents of the religion known as “Anthropogenic Global Warming” or sometimes “Climate Change” should refrain from having any children. It is the responsible thing to do and should be held as a Commandment to be followed.


51 posted on 08/19/2016 8:43:36 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Why would NPR heap such criticism on unwed black mothers?


52 posted on 08/19/2016 9:06:21 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: tbw2

Loved the Hitch


53 posted on 08/20/2016 6:14:06 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Take that “en” off the author’s last name and replace it with “ite”.


54 posted on 08/21/2016 3:57:32 AM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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