Children 'bad for planet' [Excerpts]
May 7, 2007
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."
In his latest comments, the academic says that when couples are planning a family they should be encouraged to think about the environmental consequences.
"The decision to have children should be seen as a very big one and one that should take the environment into account," he added.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21684156-5009760,00.html
[TBC: Several countries have already implemented these suggestions. Muslim extremists delight in pointing out that to take over much of Europe all that is needed is to let the Europeans simply die off. Numerous reports have shown that countries such as France have passed the point of no return. They simply do not have enough children to even keep their population stable and despite financial inducements, potential parents have no desire to perpetuate their nation. Gen:1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.; Gen:9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.; Ps:127:3-5 [3] Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
[4] As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
[5] Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
).]
