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Children 'bad for planet'
News Austrailia ^ | May 07, 2007 | Sarah-Kate Templeton

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.

Full coverage: Climate change in-depth

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: antihuman; cultureofdeath; globalswarming; malthus; optimum; peoplephobes; population; populationcontrol; trust; zpg
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1 posted on 05/12/2007 2:20:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

I agree that some kids are bad for the environment. Take my newborn son, for instance. I’m tired of changing diapers.


2 posted on 05/12/2007 2:22:17 PM PDT by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: Lorianne

Why don’t these wackos do the planet a favor and commit suicide?


3 posted on 05/12/2007 2:22:56 PM PDT by rickmichaels (God Bless America, Land That I Love)
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To: Lorianne

It’s deja vu all over again. It worked once so the leftists are trying it again. If you ever want to know how wildly off their predictions are see below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb


4 posted on 05/12/2007 2:24:12 PM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: Lorianne

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5 posted on 05/12/2007 2:29:14 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 ... Go ahead, look it up!)
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To: Lorianne

For sure, we’ll see them trying to change the laws too, to support their anti-human agenda.


6 posted on 05/12/2007 2:34:04 PM PDT by Smocker
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To: loreldan
>I agree that some kids are bad for the environment

Near our house some kids
play basketball in their drive
sun up to sun down.

After, say, six hours
listening to dribbling, shooting,
and constant shouting,

I'm ready to hear
the left-wing nuts say that kids
are wrecking the earth . . .

7 posted on 05/12/2007 2:35:06 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: loreldan
Silly me. I thought the depths of the abortion mill racket was posed as the attractive convenience of not having to care for children. (Even if one should be "unsuccessful" at that "chore", one or more of Hillary's ever so many "village" programs and health-care will get your out of such a predicament.

If those reasons and "back-stop" were somehow insufficient, enter now the guilt-laden being-able-to-afford-our-rightful-carbon-offset burden.

HF

8 posted on 05/12/2007 2:35:47 PM PDT by holden
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To: Lorianne
Rescue Mission: Planet Earth : A Children's Edition of Agenda 21 in Association With the United Nations is scary. It's a book for children telling them how terrible adults human beings are for bringing them into the world.
9 posted on 05/12/2007 2:38:33 PM PDT by It's me
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To: holden

My son’s carbon footprint is much larger than my daughter’s ever was.


10 posted on 05/12/2007 2:39:12 PM PDT by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: holden
If those reasons and "back-stop" were somehow insufficient, enter now the guilt-laden being-able-to-afford-our-rightful-carbon-offset burden.

This only works on the stupidly credulous.

11 posted on 05/12/2007 2:39:49 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers)
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To: theFIRMbss

I live in the country and I have to deal with smells from the neighbor’s cows (my horses smell perfectly fine) so we all have a “cross to bear”.


12 posted on 05/12/2007 2:42:32 PM PDT by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: Lorianne

Children bad for the planet? But essential for the future!


13 posted on 05/12/2007 2:43:44 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Paperdoll
Who cares if you think children are essential for (your) future?

You're just one of the little people, in case you didn't know, and you've just identified yourself as non-green greedy, doll.

The remaining population will be just that much easier to control once we weed out your malformed thinking.   /heavy, heavy sarc

HF

14 posted on 05/12/2007 2:50:36 PM PDT by holden
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To: Lorianne

“... 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.”

Factoids for the innumerate. They’re off by about a factor of 20.


15 posted on 05/12/2007 2:57:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Lorianne
The environmentalists are blissfully ignorant of basic economics.

A child that is allowed to prosper in a free market will produce (on average) far more goods than they will use.

A child in a socialist third world country will (on average) use more than they produce.

It is high technology (most likely to be created in a free economy) that will allow a cleaner environment for all.

To ask Australians or others in the developed world to have less children is the rawest self-destructive stupidity.
16 posted on 05/12/2007 3:06:55 PM PDT by cgbg (A cigar a day keeps the liberals away.)
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To: Lorianne
The nihilistic hedonist Marxists (the new far-left) hate capitalism, America, western civilization (including Judeo-Christian values), science, and the human race (in that descending order). The overarching theme is one of a vendetta against all forms of success, a universal form of dysgenics that goes far beyond biology. The environment is only one of several convenient rallying points for their sociocultural funk to coalesce around.

The eventual extinction of humanity (or at least the ending of our current way of life in the west) is something they embrace; to them, humanity is a virus, with America being the most virulent form. Any movement perceived to be instrumental to "curing" this "infection" is, in turn, embraced - thus the (at best) tepid support of terrorism, communism, ecofascism, anti-theism (militant atheism), moral degeneracy, subsidization of failure, obstruction of success (excessive taxation, over-regulation), subversion of law (disregard for the Constitution, criminal-as-victim), and multiculturalism (where the assimilation of members of inferior cultures is viewed almost as a crime, while, at the same time, the goal is to erode the dominant culture by way of government fiat via an explicit extension of more 'positive rights' for cultures, activities and behaviors that would otherwise self-correct).

Is it any surprise that population control is also embraced? Sure, they invite it with an environmental pretext (finite resources, increasing resource use per person = "overpopulation") but make no mistake - they push it because they hate our way of life, they hate everything America and the western world stands for. They wish to slow the spread of the "virus". The vast majority don't even realize what they are trying to "progress" towards.

17 posted on 05/12/2007 3:50:56 PM PDT by M203M4 (That Hunter is not cleaning house is a testament to how far conservatism has fallen.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Isn’t that the truth. This a** should have taken a few math courses. What orifice do these people pull their statistics out of?


18 posted on 05/12/2007 3:52:08 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: rickmichaels
"Why don’t these wackos do the planet a favor and commit suicide?"

The leaders must remain to supervise the outcome. Sorta like Jim Jones and The Peoples Church in Guyana.

19 posted on 05/12/2007 4:13:26 PM PDT by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: Lorianne

20 posted on 05/12/2007 4:24:49 PM PDT by Gritty (We need to radically reduce the human population to fewer than one billion-Paul Watson)
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