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Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children
theguardian.com ^

Posted on 07/12/2017 4:56:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children

Next best actions are selling your car, avoiding flights and going vegetarian, according to study into true impacts of different green lifestyle choices

The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is to have one fewer child, according to a new study that identifies the most effective ways people can cut their carbon emissions.

The next best actions are selling your car, avoiding long flights, and eating a vegetarian diet. These reduce emissions many times more than common green activities, such as recycling, using low energy light bulbs or drying washing on a line. However, the high impact actions are rarely mentioned in government advice and school textbooks, researchers found.

Carbon emissions must fall to two tonnes of CO2 per person by 2050 to avoid severe global warming, but in the US and Australia emissions are currently 16 tonnes per person and in the UK seven tonnes. “That’s obviously a really big change and we wanted to show that individuals have an opportunity to be a part of that,” said Kimberly Nicholas, at Lund University in Sweden and one of the research team.

The new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, sets out the impact of different actions on a comparable basis. By far the biggest ultimate impact is having one fewer child, which the researchers calculated equated to a reduction of 58 tonnes of CO2 for each year of a parent’s life.

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To: Sub-Driver
"By far the biggest ultimate impact is having one fewer child."

That's exactly right. It's because the Muslims would ignore the stupid rules and have enough children to impose Sharia law everywhere and thus murder the few remaining infidels.

41 posted on 07/12/2017 5:49:32 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The next best actions are selling your car

This doesn't reduce my carbon foot print, it just moves it to somebody else's house.

42 posted on 07/12/2017 5:50:05 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Sub-Driver

Having more children brings a bigger government check.


43 posted on 07/12/2017 5:51:08 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: soycd

Oh, pinch off, soycd.


44 posted on 07/12/2017 5:55:04 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think we’ll need to get conservative men on board with the program as well. :o)


45 posted on 07/12/2017 5:58:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: gaijin

Perhaps you don’t mean to come off this way, but you seem to manifest a prejudice against child-rich families.


46 posted on 07/12/2017 5:59:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Peddle that nonsense to the recent arrivals.


47 posted on 07/12/2017 6:09:07 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Excellent question but I have to admonish NO.

What I don’t like is that these anti-child, “The World is MELTING..!” activists always target the 1st World for their anti-child message.

If too many kids REALLY are the problem —and not Western Civ— then they need to start with MALI and her neighbors.

Needless to say, they wil NEVERRRRR do that.

All this, “don’t have kids” stuff is a lie —they simply want WHITE people to go away.

Same with lefty verbiage against golfing or “Frat Boys”:

They think those things are FINE, it’s just the connection those things have to WHITE people that they hate.


48 posted on 07/12/2017 6:09:21 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Sub-Driver

None Biblical


49 posted on 07/12/2017 6:15:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Sub-Driver

If these people had even the smallest iota of intellectual honesty, they would logically conclude that importing people who tend to have more kids per capital into the West is the most climate destroying thing they can possibly do. If people in Bangladesh or Nigeria want to have 7-8 kids each, it’s not a big deal in terms of greenhouse gas emissions; totally different story of they’re living in London or New York.


50 posted on 07/12/2017 6:22:00 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Sub-Driver

In Phase II they tell you that we must bring in Mooslims because we aren’t having enough children.


51 posted on 07/12/2017 6:24:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Sub-Driver
How's about holding your breath?

All the people who truly believe in man caused climate change should put a plastic bag over their head and rid the world of their foul existence.

If they don't do this they are not true believers and should shut up.

52 posted on 07/12/2017 6:28:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Sub-Driver

“Want to fight climate change?”

No, I’m good.


53 posted on 07/12/2017 6:30:42 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: Sub-Driver

Fewer children. Great idea for collectivists.

Conservatives can keep on growing the herd.


54 posted on 07/12/2017 6:32:28 PM PDT by lurk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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"If the average family in which there are children contained but two children the nation as a whole would decrease in population so rapidly that in two or three generations it would very deservedly be on the point of extinction, so that the people who had acted on this base and selfish doctrine would be giving place to others with braver and more robust ideals.

"Nor would such a result be in any way regrettable; for a race that practised such doctrine — that is, a race that practised race suicide — would thereby conclusively show that it was unfit to exist, and that it had better give place to people who had not forgotten the primary laws of their being."

Theodore Roosevelt
March 13, 1905

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55 posted on 07/12/2017 6:38:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Fact.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Notice the stock photo they use:

No liberal would ever ask a brown or black woman to have fewer babies.

My wife has number four on the way. Just found out last week!

56 posted on 07/12/2017 6:59:05 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Sub-Driver

Libtards concerned about global warming are free to off themselves. It’s for the children, after all.


57 posted on 07/12/2017 6:59:55 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah... no. No I don’t want to fight “Climate Change”. I like my pickup, my steaks, and my animal. Don’t care for lying marxists at all.


58 posted on 07/12/2017 7:00:36 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Islam will fill the void.


59 posted on 07/12/2017 7:03:45 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Sub-Driver

Next best .... have fewer Progressives!


60 posted on 07/12/2017 7:21:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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