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Bioethicist: The climate crisis calls for fewer children
sfgate.com ^ | 09/11/2016 | Travis N. Rieder,

Posted on 09/11/2016 8:27:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin

NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden profiled some of my work in procreative ethics with an article entitled, “Should we be having kids in the age of climate change?,” which summarized my published views that we ought to consider adopting a “small family ethic” and even pursuing fertility reduction efforts in response to the threat from climate change.

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Perhaps many of us in rich countries (the “us” who might be reading this) will be largely protected from these early harms; but that doesn’t make them less real to the vulnerable citizens of, say, Bangladesh, Kiribati or the Maldives. In fact, it escalates the injustice, as the global wealthy have benefited from and contributed to climate change the most, while the global poor will be hurt first and worst.

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The problem here is that we have a finite resource – the ability of the Earth’s atmosphere to absorb greenhouse gases without violently disrupting the climate – and each additional person contributes to the total amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. So although humans will hopefully save us (we do, in fact, desperately need brilliant people to develop scaleable technology to remove carbon from the air, for instance), the solution to this cannot be to have as many babies as possible, with the hope that this raises our probability of solving the problem. Because each baby is also an emitter, whether a genius or not.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Religion; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; reproduction
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1 posted on 09/11/2016 8:27:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Fewer “bioethicists” would also work.


2 posted on 09/11/2016 8:29:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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I suggest he start talking to the 3rd worlders first since they are the ones breeding like rabbits.

I have no intention of doing without so that someone elses progeny can have resources in the future.


3 posted on 09/11/2016 8:30:12 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: BenLurkin

Well then aren’t these white folks from industrialized societies who refuse to have children in the vanguard of saving the planet??

SO confusing.


4 posted on 09/11/2016 8:32:13 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Start with the Muslims.


5 posted on 09/11/2016 8:34:21 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: BenLurkin

There is no “climate Crises” It is a lie by leftists to get your stuff. Reject it and keep it out of your child’s school. There is no proof — no data no measurable criteria!! What is it? . It is all made up.


6 posted on 09/11/2016 8:34:32 PM PDT by WENDLE (hillary is HISTORY!!)
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Yet they want to import breeders by the millions from the third world who’s one and only goal in coming to the west is not only to expand their carbon footprint by an order of magnitude or two for themselves, but also for as many immediate and distant relatives as possible, then to breed even more


7 posted on 09/11/2016 8:35:30 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: BenLurkin

Too bad his parents didn’t know about it


8 posted on 09/11/2016 8:35:53 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin

Let’s take them and their kids away first.

Gotta nip this crap in the bud right at the source.


9 posted on 09/11/2016 8:36:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin
In the middle of the “hottest year ever” come record wheat harvests
10 posted on 09/11/2016 8:36:38 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I suggest he start talking to the 3rd worlders first since they are the ones breeding like rabbits.

Not only that, but the 3rd worlders daily gather up wood and burn it constantly for cooking purposes, polluting the air and diminishing brush and forests. Then there's the specter of washing clothes, bathing, and dumping in rivers and other waterways, polluting the water and endangering wildlife and fisheries. 3rd worlders are the biggest polluters on Earth. Cut back their birthrates, and diminish pollution. The only climate crisis is the climate of fear thrust on us by liberal leftist idiots.

11 posted on 09/11/2016 8:36:49 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: BenLurkin

Tell that to the f’n Moooslims who all have 10 or 12 kids. I dare you.


12 posted on 09/11/2016 8:37:03 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: BenLurkin

So this gamma male Travis Rieder would have more intellectual honesty if he killed himself


13 posted on 09/11/2016 8:37:40 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: BenLurkin

If a “bioethicist” wasn’t out there stirring up the bull****, what would they do for a living?


14 posted on 09/11/2016 8:42:34 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: BenLurkin

These people have been saying this stuff since I was a kid.

But they never seem to take their own lives.


15 posted on 09/11/2016 8:43:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

They’ll just import Muslims to do the Breeding


16 posted on 09/11/2016 8:45:02 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Vince Ferrer

longer growing seasons are bad - don’t you Know ?


17 posted on 09/11/2016 8:46:16 PM PDT by vooch
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18 posted on 09/11/2016 8:51:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Invent sterilization drugs?


19 posted on 09/11/2016 8:52:39 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: BenLurkin

We are already having fewer children. What next? Kill-offs?


20 posted on 09/11/2016 8:55:56 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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