Climate Porn and Children

You knew it would happen sooner or later, Climate Porn^TM would finally morph into a staple lefty issue. Seems now that global warming cooling climate change will begin to be linked to abortion?

Children 'bad for planet'

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By Sarah-Kate Templeton in London

May 07, 2007 12:00am

HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

John Guillebaud, co-chairman of OPT and emeritus professor of family planning at University College London, said: "The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights.

"The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child."(link)

Of course this idiot isn't calling for abortions (yet) but he wants the 'rich' countries to have less children. No more than 2 per family (never mind that the fertility rate of the EU and England are already less than 2). It's all about the carbon footprint of the children that will contribute to a problem that no one has a clue what it really is.

The first thing the so-called experts need to do is to determine exactly what the problem is and prove it is a problem (yes we all know the climate is changing, been doing that awhile, something to do with that big burning ball we see every morning). The next thing to do for these experts may be to run and hide. I have friends that actually believe this crap and it's real hard for me to understand how they can. They always seemed like sensible people, but they've wrapped this new religion around them so hard they can't see the world any longer.
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