Posted on 08/24/2009 8:25:37 AM PDT by bs9021
Get Green, Go Sterile?
by: Bethany Stotts, August 24, 2009
Does going green mean humans should have fewer children? Two Oregon State University professors recently released a study which argued that parents are responsible for the carbon emissions of their offspring.
The study is premised upon the concept that a mother and father each “inherit” responsibility for one half of their offspring’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, one quarter of each grandchild’s emissions, etc.
Professors Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax conclude that, under current conditions, each U.S. “child adds about 9441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average female, which is 5.7 times her lifetime emissions.”
They urge women to forgo children instead of amenities as a carbon-capping measure. “Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle,” write Murtaugh and Schlax.
“For example, a woman in the United States who adopted the six non-reproductive changes in Table 3 would save about 486 tons of CO2 emissions during her lifetime, but, if she were to have two children, this would eventually add nearly 40 times that amount of CO2 (18,882 t) to the earth’s atmosphere.”
The OSU researchers also unfavorably compare the emissions of U.S. children with those from Bangladesh: “The range of values is enormous: under the constant-emission scenario, the legacy of a United States female (18,500 t) is two orders of magnitude greater than that of a female from Bangladesh (136 t).”
Ironically, the latter government engaged in rigorous population control policies during the 21st century, claiming this would reduce poverty and therefore raise living standards...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
God help us!
These people truly are nucking futs.
Don’t blame me, I’m trying to out baby the Muslims!!!!
The one nice thing about this would be that such
leftists would become extinct.
Of course, as is typicla swith leftists, the leaders of this movement will end up exempting themselves from the rules.
I wish there was some sort of living organism which could ingest carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. That would go a long way toward solving this carbon dioxide emission problem.
My family of 9 gets great miles per per per gallon.
We are almost ALWAYS a “high occupancy vehicle”.
I am all in favor of rabid environmentalists sterilizing themselves.
Just think of it as evolution in action — a type of Darwinism that even Evangelical Christians can support.
OK, democrats shouldn’t breed.
Actually, my responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions is directly proportional to my DILLIGAFF/concerned ratio. Right now my DILLIGAFF/concerned ratio is pretty high, hence the concern I have for the studies of Watermelons at the local university is quite low.
LOL!
Unfortunately, libtards think that abortion and sterilization are for everyone but the chosen few (i.e. them).
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