I heard someone say that the earth is not in danger, but our personal freedoms are in danger.

Here is another example of crazy thinking to “solve man-made global warming”:

Baby Tax Needed To Save Planet, Claims Expert

By Jen Kelly
December 10, 2007 01:00am
 
A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy" at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime.

Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and "greenhouse-friendly" services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.
And he implied the Federal Government should ditch the $4133 baby bonus and consider population controls like those in China and India.

Professor Walters said the average annual carbon dioxide emission by an Australian individual was about 17 metric tons, including energy use.
"Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society," he wrote.
"Far from showering financial booty on new mothers and rewarding greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour, a 'baby levy' in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the 'polluter pays' principle."

Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said it was ridiculous to blame babies for global warming.

"I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create," she said. "There's masses of evidence to say that child-rich families have much lower resource consumption per head than other styles of households.

But the plan won praise from high-profile doctor Garry Egger. "One must wonder why population control is spoken of today only in whispers," he wrote in an MJA response article.


-- Modified on 3/28/2008 4:23:20 AM

Professor Barry makes a strong argument for the abortion his mother failed to get. He should stick to changing diapers and not try to view the entire world through his cloudy microscope. Assuming he is about 40 years old, according to his numbers, there would be a savings of carbon dioxide emissions through the 40 years of his estimated life expectancy of 680 metric tons, if he commited harakiri now.

and it is  one which all the left oh... lunes fail to recognize - and one which - Harry - I am surprised you did not recognize...
so to borrow from "it is not guns that kill - rather the killer holding the gun"  I would offer it is not SUVs or cars or industry that pollutes... rather it is the polluter.. that is the population... control the population and you control the rest.

but then again... maybe all that litter beside the roadside is growing there....

Population control, like gun control, is fascist.
Period
Hunter