Sep
14
Should Americans have fewer babies to save the environment?
From the article:
What’s the environmental cost of having a child? In the crudest terms, you’ve added another version of yourself into the world, which means you’re potentially doubling your carbon-dioxide emissions over the total life of your family. That’s a high estimate, since our kids won’t spew as much greenhouse gas as we do—automobiles, appliances, light bulbs, and everything else will become more efficient in coming generations. But these marginal improvements aren’t going to make our babies carbon-neutral. They’ll just contribute to global warming at somewhat lower rates than we do.
Unfortunately, the only people who will see the reason in this are the very people who would best be over-represented in the gene pool, and if you have seen Idiocracy, you know what happens next.
