Michelle Malkin » Save the planet: Blame the children

Save the planet: Blame the children

By Michelle Malkin • May 7, 2007 10:48 AM

Public Enemy No. 1

Forget about saving the planet for the children. The greenies say it’s all their damned fault:

Having large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4×4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) 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. An extra child is the equivalent of a lot of flights across the planet.

“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”

Mark Steyn cracks: “In those terms, surely the greatest thing everyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to reduce his carbon footprint to zero by killing himself. The United Kingdom’s present fertility rate is not three children or even two but 1.6 or 1.7, and the British will be extinct long before the polar bear.”

Tim Worstall notes eco-hypocrisy:

Now you might think that this would be a gross invasion of the highly personal decisions of others and you’d be right. But just to convince of the moral purity of the exercise, we should consider the following:

Al Gore, environmental campaigner, four children.

Zac Goldsmith, environmental activist, editor of The Ecologist, three children.

What fun, eh? Any others?

Al Gore’s “eco-misdemeanors:”

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#101904

On July 7th, 2007 at 8:58 am, ammonrae said:

Yea I have EXTREME problems with liberals and this carbon footprinting, having less children to save the earth, and a global carbon tax. Sounds like enviro-eugenics…
#101915

On July 7th, 2007 at 9:57 am, DaveC said:

So.. what is the carbon offset for all the used latex then?
#101916

On July 7th, 2007 at 10:02 am, DaveC said:

umm, regarding the fact for people using birth control methods to prevent the extra toddlers from killing the world
#101941

On July 7th, 2007 at 12:14 pm, josetheguerilla said:

You see how the eco-freaks are willing to tell other people to have less children. However, this reduction doesn’t include Eco-freaks and illegal aliens, they can have as many as they want.

Charlie Sheen three Children
Martin Sheen four children
Geena Davis three Children
Rosie O’Donnell five Children
Robin williams three children
Harry Reid four children
John Edwards four children
William Jefferson five children
Rev Jesse Jackson Five children (that we know about)
#101974

On July 7th, 2007 at 5:21 pm, Bbungle said:

If they have their way the planet will be left but with no humans on it. How can this be satisfying; – plus, they’ll never know about it.
#101978

On July 7th, 2007 at 6:00 pm, puhiawa said:

I guess smoking pot projects the right green image.
Jenna Bush has a beer=drunken slut takes after her drunken father,MSM
Al Jr gets caught for the umpteenth time smoking pot like his father and sisters did before him, this time DWI=he is just a greenie like his old man. Cool.MSM
#102036

On July 8th, 2007 at 12:11 am, xblade said:

If they have their way the planet will be left but with no humans on it. How can this be satisfying; – plus, they’ll never know about it.

Think about it. To save mankind from the evil global warming, we must kill all the people. Liberal logic at its finest, lol.
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On May 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm, havok said:

I’ll follow suit after the far-left go first.