Posted on 05/12/2007 2:20:32 PM PDT by Lorianne
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.
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John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.
"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."
In his latest comments, the academic says that when couples are planning a family they should be encouraged to think about the environmental consequences.
"The decision to have children should be seen as a very big one and one that should take the environment into account," he added.
Professor Guillebaud says that, as a general guideline, couples should produce no more than two offspring.
The world's population is expected to increase by 2.5 billion to 9.2 billion by 2050. Almost all the growth will take place in developing countries.
The population of developed nations is expected to remain unchanged and would have declined but for migration.
The British fertility rate is 1.7. The EU average is 1.5. Despite this, Professor Guillebaud says rich countries should be the most concerned about family size as their children have higher per capita carbon dioxide emissions.
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Some one should tell the muslims.
ROFL You're right, either that, or they should not procreate. No procreated liberal/enviro/whackies would be a good thing.
The better alternative is for the hypocrites such as this moron to eliminate their carbon footprint (extinguish himself), thereby saving the rest of us, and stop telling us to sacrifice our children to the Global Warmist religion god: Algore.
Some things just defy all logic.
Any person who does not know that the climates of all the planets in our solar system are controlled by the sun is an idiot. Why is this supid man-made-climate-warming-crap still being discussed? Anybody know why?
It makes you wonder how these guys got to be professors teaching children.
This global warming bandwagon seems to allow really stupid people get their 15 minutes of phony intelligence. Logically it’s BS: cut a tree down, use the timber for a house and let another tree grow sounds like I’m reducing CO2 from the atmosphere. Am I wrong? And how much CO2 is spewed daily from constantly active volcanos like in NZ, Iceland, Hawaii and under the oceans. This is totalitarian clap-trap and will hopefully die a death like the Y2K nonsense.
That's not quite accurate: According to NASA, Jupiter emits approximately twice as much heat from its core as it receives from the sun.
So, from this you are concluding that Jupiter controls its own climate with no influence from the sun?
Mainly. Clearly, whatever climate Jupiter may have will be affected to a larger extent by its internal heat than by the heat from the sun, simply because one is greater than the other.
Equally clearly, this does not alter the fact that the climates of the other planets are driven by the sun.
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