Posted on 08/19/2016 11:01:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
Climate-change activists are mobilizing to cut the birthrate, arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to protect them from the ravages of global warming and reduce emissions.
Travis Rieder, assistant director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, told NPR that bringing down global fertility by half a child per woman “could be the thing that saves us.”
“Here’s a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them,” said Mr. Rieder, who has one child.
He proposed procreation disincentives such as government tax breaks for poor people and tax penalties for rich people, a kind of “carbon tax on kids.”
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OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
and just import more Muslims
I predicted this in my column years ago. I said Al Gore would take away child tax deductions and impose a Carbon Tax on those same children.
These people are sick and of the devil
Yes indeed, but the Sierra Club had an opportunity to voice their opinion about immigration and after due consideration for the politics, they decided the US should be neutral about immigration because the immigrants voted for their party.
What actually happens is that when the standard of living is raised and families can count on children reaching maturity, they reduce their birthrate below replacement. This can happen in the third world if they achieved a higher standard of living.
Note that some religions may not follow this rule, but in general there is a stable human population out there somewhere.
The trick is to get there and see if the climate really is unstable (which I doubt).
Look at what is happening now in Europe. Because ALL the countries don’t have a birthrate equal to 2.1 children per family, the Europeans are actually disappearing. Yes, they are voluntarily extingguishing the native stock of Germans, Spaniard, Italians, Britains, French and all the others that have contributed so much to what we know as Western Civilization.
This moron wants to accellerate the process in developed countries. I want to know if he has any idea of the consequences of his idea.
Good points.....
Better yet, how can about 500 people in DC absolutely RUIN THE LIVES of many millions of citizens??? What laws of physics permit such an imbalance in out solar system to continue????
Can I get a $10,000 credit for not having more kids? Yea! BTW, I’m 68 YO. :-)
I get the connection. These Global Warming nuts are setting the groundwork for their next marketing venture: A worldwide network of abortion clinics. Yep! That’s the ticket!
It should have said:
arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to —— leave room and resources for the foreign invaders that are breeding like cockroaches currently in 3rd world countries.
Make no mistake this policy is advocating global genocide against white people.
If there’s less of thee, there’s more for me.
But what do YOU say?
Killing babies in the womb isn’t good enough for them, I guess.
Children are a blessing from The Lord.
Unless you worship Gaia or whatever these loons reverence....
Or iftgey have several kids, allowing all of those above one child to be sacriiced for everyone elses kids. Or maybe jst take all their earnings so far to covr their un gaia frindly famiy planning that they claim is endangering the world so much.
I mean, if its this serious, as they tell all of us, then they should suffer severe penalties for knowing it and still hypocriticaly doing the opposite.
The middle class / upper class has a birth rate below replacement level. It is the lower class / welfare class that is having 2.3-3.0 children. That’s population growth among the population we can literally least afford.
I would rather see mandatory long term contraception tied to welfare use. If Mom has to use SNAP, Section 8 housing, Medicaid, then she and every female in the household must receive long term idiot proof contraception like a Norplant or IUD.
When they aren’t reliant on the state in any form through employment or marrying a man who can take care of them, the contraceptives can be removed.
This avoids the irreversibility of sterilization. It encourages but doesn’t mandate marriage, while encouraging women to only have children with men who can support them.
It almost immediately reduces the birth rate among those on welfare, instead of incentivizing it, dramatically reducing welfare costs over the long term while freeing up both personal and public resources for those that are left.
When a 12 year old receives the contraceptive implant, you know she won’t become a 15 year old mother. But if she wants a baby at 19, she has to become self supporting or marry a supportive partner to have a baby.
What's needed is precisely the personal self-respect to reject cheap intercourse, and an ethic that strongly encourages marital bonds and the formation of a "marriage culture." This is not something compulsory public policy can do; but at the very least, government programs should not dynamite it and sweep away the pieces, as is done both by the present toxic welfare culture and by your proposed "solution."
... and has for at least 45 years. Pathetic. They ought to be having normal, Teddy Roosevelt-sized families. Instead, they have the same feeble birth-rate as dying Europe.
Demographic collapse follows as the natural and logical consequence of the rejection of natural sex.
Get used to hearing "Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm". In ten years it will be the opening prayer in the public schools in Eurabia and in key U.S. school districts. Yeah, Inshallah.
seriously, we've all been preached to for decades about the population "explosion"...
and what do they do?....they allow an unprecedented invasion of stone aged inbred people....
so tell us why again we, the citizens of this country, should care about not having children...
HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN PEOPLE!
The US is doing the same thing; maternity wards in “white” areas are filled with Hispanic babies - and have been for DECADES. The 2050 date thrown out there for when the US is no longer majority-white is nonsense; it will happen within a decade.
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