Save the Earth: Stop Having Babies
Glenn Beck introduced one of his most bizarre segments last night with this lead:
“The best way to leave no carbon footprint is to not exist. In a study done by crazy people in Oregon, [titled] Reproduction and the Carbon Legacy of Individuals, researchers found that if you really want to be ‘green,’ you should have one less child — especially an American child. In the United States, the ‘carbon legacy‘ of a child is twenty times more important than other ‘green’ things you can do, like driving a hybrid or using fluorescent light bulbs.â€
Take a moment to let that sink in. You cannot be faulted for thinking that Beck is making this up, and that no serious scholar would waste a minute on this nonsense.
And yet, you’d be wrong. There is such a study, and it was indeed written by two Oregon State University academics: Paul A. Murtaugh (Department of Statistics) and Michael G. Schlax (College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences).
It is a predictably dense and nearly unreadable study packed with enough mathematical formulae to choke an elephant, but the authors aim to persuade us that our current (American)Â reproductive choices, left unchecked, will have disastrous consequences for the future health of the planet. From the study:
The reproductive choices of an individual are rarely incorporated into calculations of his personal impact on the environment. Here we [will] estimate the extra emissions of fossil carbon dioxide that an average individual causes when he or she chooses to have children. Our basic premise is that a person is responsible for the carbon emissions of his descendants, weighted by their relatedness to him.
What does this mean?
It means, quite simply, that those of you planning on having a child at some point now have something more important to think about — that offspring’s future impact on the environment!
Citing statistical data from the United Nations Population Division, the World Health Organization and other sources, the authors, by means of sundry charts and equations, have manipulated that data to support their hypothesis, namely, that the United States — because of its high fertility rates, long life-span and current reproductive strategies — is the world’s principal culprit when it comes to greenhouse emissions, and that it should therefore seek to radically change those reproductive strategies.
The United States, we are told, will remain the largest contributor, by far, in future global emissions unless Americans realize “that the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle.â€
In other words, Americans (and especially those fertile, long-living American females) will continue to slowly sap the life out of our planet — even if they drive hybrid cars, switch to using fluorescent light bulbs, and dutifully recycle their aluminum cans – until they decide not to have a child for the sake of the planet!
The study ends with this warning:
Ignoring the consequences of reproduction can lead to serious underestimation of an individual’s long-term impact on the global environment.
Who knows to what consequences a study like this, if taken seriously, can lead?
It leads to European style negative population growth statistics among native born citizens so those uninitiated with this wisdom can overwhelm our systems as they have elsewhere. THEN who’s going to pay off all the debt we’ll be leaving them??
How much carbon do you think pampers and formula creates? Not to mention all the plasticy crap that babies need like carseats, highchair, toys, etc. All that stuff has a huge carbon footprint from manufacture to the inevitable tossing when done.
All that does leave a huge carbon footprint for each and every kid.
All that is undeniable. Also if we dont have kids/grandkids..then why care about the debt we’re leaving them? OTOH its also a good reason to not care about the environment..haha
This is not at all surprising to me. I have known for many years that most militant environmentalists believe that mankind is a blight on the earth.
Their worldview is completely skewed because, “Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. They have, “… exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”
This is a spiritual battle, not a scientific one, and it is easily predictable when one considers that all of these folks believe the lie of evolution.
Fortunately for them, God loves them so much that He will happily forgive them if they will repent and believe in Jesus Christ. Then their eyes will be opened and His truth will set them free.
Blessings,
John
This is why they want to kill children in their mothers wombs. This is why they want to deny healthcare through a rationing system and legalize assisted suicide. This is why in the 1920s and 1930s they instituted a forced sterilization programe in almost every state of the U.S. They have proclaimed their goal to reduce the entire population of the world to below one billion from the currently almost seven billion. Theirs is a cult of death from which every evil program emanates from. It is a very strong delusion they have willfully chosen in which they believe they alone will SAVE THE PLANET!
Why don’t you tell that news to the muslims who are allow to marry up to four women and have a dozen or more children!
Help! I am being held hostage in Oregon by the idiot progressive liberals who have already turned the state over to the United Nations.
The strategy is the same wherever you look: “triangulation.” That is, you want to do something like attack the human race, or destroy economic health, or create animosity among different groups in this country, the first thing you don’t do is say this.
Triangulation means getting from point A to point B by means of a detour through point C. You don’t talk about hating human beings. No, you talk about “an individual’s long-term impact on the global environment.”
You don’t talk about wanting to destroy the economy of the country and therefore empoverish the populace, which is the real goal of marxism, i.e., to achieve the “equality” of equal poverty for all. No, you talk about “global warmig” and other “problems” the solution for which would entail (sorry about that, folks!) seriously damaging the wealth of the nation.
This type of unmasking of liberal “do-gooder” agendas is not original. What has not been done, however, is try to get behind the liberal mask to the reality in order to explain why they make these proposals and why they are, in effect, haters.
This is a psychological rather than a political problem, even though its processes and effects are political. I’ve never known a liberal of this stripe who didn’t have an anger problem: a “fact” that is at least a start. What we need in this country is more explicit calling out of liberal orgs and their membership for the “real” goals they are proposing. And that would mean be willing to mount personal attacks on the liberals for deliberately and with design advocating programs that in fact are aimed at damage to this or that portion of the American population.
Liberals hate people? I hope no one is surprised by this. They’re earth worshiping pagans. The upside is that liberals are the ones prone to messages like this, while people like me will read it and have at least 1 more kid than originally expected just to spite them.
God bless my carbon footprint!
Too late now. I already have three kids. Was there a deadline or something?
If we can survive the insanity for a few more generations, there will be so few liberals on the planet, we can easily dismiss them as the nutcakes they truly are.
Another academic snow job for the advancement of demographic winter. Baby it’s cold stateside!
“that the United States — because of its high fertility rates, long life-span and current reproductive strategies”
Pray tell how Americans have a “long life-span” when our health care ranks 33rd in the world?
By all estimates,give or take 10%-40 million American babies have been murdered thur abortion, the elites call a baby a fetus. Science and the new pills will further decrease Americans and the result is America will be overwhelmed by excessive immigration. Anarchy will destroy our Constitution. We must put an end this Death culture and make it begin with the 2010 elections
interesting…
The novel “The Wanting Seed” by Anthony Burgess was published in 1962. It is hilarious, horrifying and prophetic. Read it.
Imagine, no mentions of the hundreds of millions of Muslims, who can take as menay wives as they can afford, who have 10 children and more!
Not a word about them….no, Americans must not procreate! I say to all fetile men and women, lets make babies! We need more good Americans in this world, and we need to stop listening to this crap couming out the universities. too bad their mothers did not worry about their kids “carbon footprint.”
Hey all you superconcerned eco-worshippers, think this all the way through.
If you are seriously considering this approach and you have no children, just KILL YOURSELF NOW. Look at all the carbon feetprints you will render null and void, along with the immediate benefit of your oxygen consumption being cancelled. Do it for Mother Earth, remove your genes from the pool before you procreate.
It is ironic that we are being told to stop having “so many” kids. Last time I checked, the Western world had such low birth rates that we are in danger of losing ourselves. Whereas the Muslim world has a birth rate of above 5, we are at a “zero” rate and most of old Europe is already heading toward extinction. This is all the same old “hate-America (and its allies in the West)” psychobabble that labels people, in general, and the West, specifically, as the root of all the World’s problems. I always suggest the people pointing fingers be the first to go. You know, set a good example!
http://vox-nova.com/2009/08/07/preliminary-ramblings-on-population-and-the-environment/
then this would be of interest too:
( this was brought to my attention several years ago..)
Discussion is restricted to Volunteers and Supporters of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
If you do not agree that Earth’s biosphere would be better off without Homo sapiens, and/or that creating more of us at this time can’t be justified, we have two alternate lists for you:
You may freely post messages related to human breeding at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Why_breed and messages related to voluntary human extinction at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Why_VHEMT .
Thank you,
Les U. Knight
the link below, i saw on someone’s facebook page a while back.. they were very excited about this direction. guess someone should introduce them to this thread and the thoughts in it!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/209164/page/1
Only You. And You. And You.
Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party.
By Jessica Bennett | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 29, 2009
How about instead of worrying about the carbon footprint that babies put on this earth, start worrying about the quality of life babies experience while on this earth. I can’t really say that I care about the “plasticy crap and diapers” that babies require during their infancy. It is not their choice to be here! It especially not their choice to be brought into this world for the pure sake of pain and suffering. Why can’t we ALL acknowledge what is happening to the world’s youth? People have gone insane and are taking it out on innocent children. Just Google a few child abuse stories or the name, Brianna Lopez, and see how many appear. So here is a good reason to not reproduce and “save” our earth: child abuse/murder. If you are incapable of caring for another or have a tendency to hurt things, do not have a child!
I know this may be a little off the issue but it is certainly an issue way bigger than the one being discussed.
I do care about the quality of my children’s lives, and that’s why I will choose to replace only myself and my husband. I would hope others might choose to do the same, so that we don’t have to worry about future generations starving to death due to population numbers being so high, we can’t sustainably support ourselves. Why not choose quality of life over quantity.
Here’s an idea that should give you a smile.
Since we are trying to limit CO2 with Cap and Tax, how about a new government program of Clip and Trade? I have no children, someone what to buy my child credit?
Samuel
Thank you for that beautiful excerpt.