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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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To: Lorianne

Some one should tell the muslims.


21 posted on 05/12/2007 4:26:43 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: rickmichaels
Why don’t these wackos do the planet a favor and commit suicide?

ROFL You're right, either that, or they should not procreate. No procreated liberal/enviro/whackies would be a good thing.

22 posted on 05/12/2007 4:36:16 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Lorianne
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
23 posted on 05/12/2007 4:39:37 PM PDT by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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To: Lorianne
"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."

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.

24 posted on 05/12/2007 4:44:13 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: w1andsodidwe
This is practically the same stuff that I learned in my NJ public school social-science classes in the late 60’s and early 70’s. It was a taught as a scientific certainty that having a child was morally indistinguishable from dumping nuclear waste in the local reservoir.
25 posted on 05/12/2007 5:10:16 PM PDT by Nova
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To: Lorianne

Some things just defy all logic.


26 posted on 05/12/2007 5:45:00 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Lorianne

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?


27 posted on 05/12/2007 5:45:04 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Lorianne

It makes you wonder how these guys got to be professors teaching children.


28 posted on 05/12/2007 5:45:45 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Lorianne

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.


29 posted on 05/12/2007 6:22:34 PM PDT by generalhammond
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To: abclily
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.

That's not quite accurate: According to NASA, Jupiter emits approximately twice as much heat from its core as it receives from the sun.

30 posted on 05/12/2007 6:37:50 PM PDT by derlauerer ("Science is worthless without good, solid, reliable evidence. It isn't even science." - OSC)
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To: derlauerer

So, from this you are concluding that Jupiter controls its own climate with no influence from the sun?


31 posted on 05/13/2007 10:53:20 AM PDT by abclily
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To: abclily
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.

32 posted on 05/13/2007 11:06:15 AM PDT by derlauerer ("Science is worthless without good, solid, reliable evidence. It isn't even science." - OSC)
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