Posted on 11/15/2017 7:58:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A startling and honestly distressing view is beginning to receive serious consideration in both academic and popular discussions of climate change ethics. According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change. The logical takeaway here is that everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.
Although culturally controversial, the scientific half of this position is fairly well-established. Several years ago, scientists showed that having a child, especially for the world’s wealthy, is one of the worst things you can do for the environment. That data was recycled this past summer in a paper showing that none of the activities most likely to reduce individuals’ carbon footprints are widely discussed.
The second, moral aspect of the view — that perhaps we ought to have fewer children — is also being taken seriously in many circles.
The argument that having a child adds to one’s carbon footprint depends on the view that each of us has a personal carbon ledger for which we are responsible. Furthermore, some amount of an offspring’s emissions count towards the parents’ ledger.
If you buy this view of responsibility, you might eventually admit that having many children is wrong, or at least morally suspect, for standard environmental reasons: Having a child imposes high emissions on the world, while the parents get the benefit. So like with any high-cost luxury, we should limit our indulgence.
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Is the the evil marge Sanger ?
The left are welcome to have no more children ... and to please stop trying to infect other folk’s kids with their intellectual poison.
Calling all ecowankers. You know what you have to do for the good of muvver erf. Then remove yourselves from the equation.
My science proves leftists are bad for the earth. We must have our universities stop growing them.
Except Margaret wanted to thin the less productive part of the herd. This article wants to cull the more productive.
Not much point in saving the earth if we aren’t here. On the other hand, im glad for anything that encourages the morons not to breed.
Of course overpopulation is bad for any closed ecosystem this really isn’t news...
If course, I must remind him that if he feels that strongly about this, he can always switch himself off. Call it a "really late, late term autof-abortion".
Seems like the left has its own morality. Made up, just like the rest of what the left claims to believe.
The same person will then argue that we must import more fertile people from South of the Border as well as Muslims.
As muzzies use females like breeding stock and have 5 kids for each wife.
Muhammad had a very succesful war plan
Universities are bad for the health of the planet.
The not-having-children thing worked out well for the Shakers. Or not.
I’m Ok with that if all liberals and muzzies stop having kids.
Whitey isn’t having very many kids at all, but I’m Ok with that as long as the others have 0 kids.
Okay.
Sterilize every person south of the equator.
Problem solved.
Libs who want no kids = Libs self-removing from the gene pool.
Works for me.
>>The left are welcome to have no more children ...
>>and to please stop trying to infect other folk’s kids with their intellectual poison.
They're busy handing out "finisher ribbons" to other people's kids - while teaching their own amoral progeny to get ahead by climbing up the pile...
Where's Waldo? Top of the heap, Ma!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Pve9a2MFA
XX + XX = FAIL
XY + XY = FAIL
XX + XY = Human
So if the above premise is true, and since the 3rd world is bursting at the seams with new babies, they, the 3rd world is in fact the problem. The west is in population decline. Essentially, this premise absolves the west of culpability since the west already isn’t having babies at replacement rates.
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