Posted on 08/19/2016 5:01:27 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
Americans and other rich nations produce the most carbon emissions per capita, he says. Yet people in the world's poorest nations are most likely to suffer severe climate impacts, "and that seems unfair," he says.
There's also a moral duty to future generations that will live amid the climate devastation being created now.
"Here's a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them," Rieder says.
His arguments sound pretty persuasive in the classroom. At home, it was a different matter.
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It is not an exaggeration to draw a line from this to human sacrifice.
How about a fair compromise.
Those that believe in GlowBull Warming don’t have kids; those that don’t have kids.
I have a warm and fuzzy feeling the problem will sort itself out in a few generations...
LOL
I could agree with the notion that liberals should quit reproducing.
Even if the vapid NPR fans don’t have children, the third world dwellers will.
The person who asked such an asinine question should err have children, be within 1000 yards of children and never say the word children.
This is to reduce the Western Civ population while Muslims breed like rabbits.
Liberals force us to stop having kids, bring in mooselimb savages who spew kids out and get on welfare......
Liberal morons....
Just imagine how advanced society would be if we stopped having kids during the Ice Age. /S
How do we protect them if they never exist?! Liberal logic necessary ceases to amaze or fail to infuriate me.
Yes we should, I love my two, they are turning into teenagers so check back in a year or two.
18th Century - “We’re doomed! We’re going to run out of wood!”
19th Century - “We’re doomed! We’re going to run out of coal!”
20th Century - “We’re doomed! We’re going to run out of oil! And rainforests! And landfill space!”
Should we be having kids in the face of economic collapse, one-world government, runaway tyranny, the repression of Christians, mass Islamicization, and the coming of SkyNet?
If you’re the kind of person who has to ask...no. Hell no. Please.
Personally, I like the concept of the Quiverful Christians.
Those are the “19 kids and counting” people.
Keep making children and then teach them to kill their enemies.
(Paraphrased: Quiverful are a way to expand the kingdom of Christ)
2050: "We’re doomed! We’re going to run out of robots!"
2100: (Robots) "We’re doomed! We’re going to run out of humans!"
Older Freepers may recall the same thing was said during the early days of the Cold War. Only then it ran like this: Should we have children when the world may be incinerated at any second?
I lived next door to one such Christian. Roman Catholic. Kids: Steve, Michael, Coleen, Terry, Jeanie, Tracy. Another on the way when I left for college.
There is no man made climate change. Zero.
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