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Holy Crap!
Posted on 12/20/2007 8:26:24 AM PST by Graybeard58
Cynics say if there was a practical way to tax the air, we'd all be wearing breath meters. Recent proposals by global warmists in Australia suggest that fear isn't entirely far-fetched.
When the Australian government proposed to counter a declining birth rate with incentives to families who have more children, Barry Walters, a clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia, was outraged because in his mind, children contribute to global warming.
Wrote Dr. Walters in the Medical Journal of Australia: "Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing, but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society. ... Far from showering financial booty on new mothers and thereby rewarding greenhouse-unfriendly behavior, a 'Baby Levy' in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the 'polluter pays' principle.'"
Dr. Walters suggested an annual levy — a breath tax — of up to $700 to cover the cost of maintaining enough trees to compensate for the carbon dioxide children will produce.
Supporting Dr. Walters, and going beyond his breath tax, was Garry Egger, director of the Center for Health Promotion and Research in Sydney. Said Dr. Egger: "One must wonder why population control, which was such a popular topic during the 1970s, is spoken of today only in whispers. The debate needs to be reopened as part of a second ecological revolution."
For answer to Drs. Walter and Egger, one need only head north, to Qian'an, China, where the wife of Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, got pregnant without the required license. Reported The Associated Press: "One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her. 'Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach,' says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. 'It was very painful. It was all very rough.' ... Seven years after the dead baby was pulled from her body with forceps, Jin remains traumatized and ... unable to bear children."
Despite the hysteria of warmists such as Drs. Walter and Egger, there are considerations in life more important than carbon footprints and greenhouse-gas emissions. Besides, as the late cartoonist Walt Kelly once observed in his comic strip Pogo, those who advocate limits on children somehow always manage to get themselves born first.
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For those of us with long enough memories or who can read history, the argument for population control in the 70s was due to concerns about the earths ability to sustain more human life because of------ Global Cooling.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Global Warming loons are getting crazier by the day.
Yeah, but I thought that was caused by hairspray . . . maybe that's the problem -- no one uses hairspray anymore! We just have to regulate and license the use of hairspray to achieve Global Perfection! ;-)
Baby Fine? No Child Is Illegal!!!
Here’s an oxymoron
Barry Walters, a clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia, was outraged because in his mind, children contribute to global warming.
Hey, you repeated yourself. You said:
If they ban hairspray, how will I be able to fire off my potato gun?
Put theory into practice, doc.
The term among the girls when I was Young was poop them out, I encourage my Kids to have at lest 5 ea. More Republican Voters.
They’re not getting crazy. They’re getting power.
It will be a ghastly irony if Islam turns out to be the only remaining bulwark against the Warmingist genocide that is coming.
I could sell Dr. Walters a box of corks and we’ll fix the problem together
I thought it was CFC’s.
NO wait CFC’s caused ozone hole, 1985
so hard to keep up with the newest wack job theory of the sky is falling.
I have become so jaded that when the true end of the world event happens, I will be like the poor folks in NO (sarcasm) and not have the good sense to get out of the way
Garry Egger, director of the Center for Health Promotion and Research in Sydney.
Promoting health, yeah rigghhht!
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