Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids

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Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids
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A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environment-friendly practices people might employ during their entire lives - things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.

"In discussions about climate change, we tend to focus on the carbon emissions of an individual over his or her lifetime," said study team member Paul Murtaugh. "Those are important issues and it's essential that they should be considered. But an added challenge facing us is continuing population growth and increasing global consumption of resources."

Reproductive choices haven't gained as much attention in the consideration of human impact to the Earth, Murtaugh said. When an individual produces a child - and that child potentially produces more descendants in the future - the effect on the environment can be many times the impact produced by a person during their lifetime.

A child's impact

Under current conditions in the United States, for instance, each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent - about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for which, on average, a person is responsible.

The impact doesn't only come through increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - larger populations also generate more waste and tax water supplies.

The impact of having children differs between countries. While some developing nations have much higher populations and rates of population growth than the United States, their overall impact on the global carbon equation is often reduced by shorter life spans and less consumption. The long-term impact of a child born to a family in China is less than one-fifth the impact of a child born in the United States, the study found.


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Guys and Gals.. this is hideous! If you think the Green agenda will be satisfied with you driving smaller cars, swapping light bulbs, buying Al Gore's Tax Credits... then you are sadly mistaken. See how having kids is 20 more times worse that anything you could ever do to prevent Global Warming. See how it's not other countries... BUT ONLY THE UNITED STATES of America's kids that must be killed or kept from being born.

They are after your Christian KIDS, GRANDKIDS, GREAT GRANDKIDS - FUTURE GENERATIONS. Soon with this thinking.. they are rationalizing ABORTION of living kids soon... not to mention the horrific genocide that is taking place before they are born.

So go ahead and vote Green, buy Green, drive Green. Go ahead and "think you know" what this movement is really about. Global Warming has nothing to do with conservation. Everyone supports conservation and being a good steward.. but it never trumps an individual's God GIVEN life. This is hideous.

Beam Me Up Scotty.