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.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Climate Optimums are when population expands: Happened during the Roman and Medieval, why should the Modern be any different?
Liberals shouldn’t, under any circumstances. Their parenting skills are non-existent.
Wait, that came out wrong.
(That’s what SHE said)
I actually read many anti-AGW comments. Lots of liberal bashing. It was great. Couple of real freaks tho...
Did you sort by newest? :)
No to kids HUGE YES to 30M illegals.
Wrong question and premise. Correct question: Why should the US taxpayer continue to fund NPR, a rabid left wing purveyor of lies, disinformation, and propaganda?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H. L. Mencken
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/hlmencke101109.html
Christopher Hitchens may have been a liberal atheist, but he was willing to criticize Islam as a threat to women’s rights and democracy and relativistic ethics that demote people.
When Peter Singer said he didn’t see a baby chimp as different from a baby human, Hitchens response was that he felt sorry for Singer’s children if he had any, and that the baby should be worth much more.
So not all liberal secularists demonize humanity - but the Earth worshiping cult has definitely come to dominate atheism. Social justice is infiltrating it, too, where there are atheists complaining about the SJW domination of the last big atheist convention and silencing the mostly white male attendees as privileged.
In the “Battlefield Earth” book series, homosexuality was promoted as a means of birth control by alien invaders.
Not even L. Ron Hubbard thought of transgenderism that sterilizes you while breaking down social roles.
This “Have no kids to save the planet” crap has been a leftist meme for decades.
Definitely ! All adherents of the religion known as “Anthropogenic Global Warming” or sometimes “Climate Change” should refrain from having any children. It is the responsible thing to do and should be held as a Commandment to be followed.
Why would NPR heap such criticism on unwed black mothers?
Loved the Hitch
Take that “en” off the author’s last name and replace it with “ite”.
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