“I am trying to decide whether to have a second child. I am wondering about the environmental impact that an American/U.S. person will have over the course of his/her life. Our home is very green: veggie oil car, organic foods, mostly used items are purchased — but I am wondering if you can possibly give me an answer. Sometimes I think that it would be wonderful for my son to have a sibling when the oceans are rising, and they can be in it together, but then I wonder if, by having a second, I am contributing to the oceans’ rising?”
I had to read this twice. The author of the column this was addressed to gave his neither here nor there opinion, which you can read at the link above. I find myself wondering though, when did we start looking at children not as a “bundle of joy” to be loved and cherished, but as a plague upon dear Mother Earth, like pestilence to be eradicated? The Medical Journal of Australia suggests a tax penalty for those couples who have more than two children, one to replace each parent.
One of the major traits in the modern environmental movement is a profound self loathing, to the point where only self induced extinction will suffice as a cure. Unfortunately, that means everyones’ extinction, not just their own. There is serious talk in the halls of academia about the need to reduce the earth’s population by the billions, eliminating the “useless eaters” who scurry about like cockroaches, producing more of their “inferior” kind. Of course, usually you will hear that very same propaganda pushed forward in the mainstream Media and our children’s schools, only cleaned up and put in a prettier light. This is a disgrace akin to Hitler’s “cleansing” eugenics program, only in a different wrapper. Why?
I have written in the past about how global warming is one of the biggest scams ever sold, and I will soon post those blogs to this site. In order for the groups which seek the globalization of government (i.e. the UN, EU, and the like) to gain our consent to encroach on our laws and liberties, they need a single, unifying force capable of binding us together in a noble crusade. Thus far, global warming has fit the bill quite nicely. We are willing to not only submit to, but readily justify such draconian edicts as Chinas’ famous One Child Policy, regardless of the many forced abortions and sterilizations that follow. It always seemed hypocritical to me that the most vocal voices for state mandated birth control and womens’ rights fall silent when confronted by the anguished cried of the women whose infants are cruelly torn from their wombs. We are complicit in these atrocities because we give our silent consent. Apparently, totalitarianism is more “Green” than personal freedom.
From Salon.com:
“I am trying to decide whether to have a second child. I am wondering about the environmental impact that an American/U.S. person will have over the course of his/her life. Our home is very green: veggie oil car, organic foods, mostly used items are purchased — but I am wondering if you can possibly give me an answer. Sometimes I think that it would be wonderful for my son to have a sibling when the oceans are rising, and they can be in it together, but then I wonder if, by having a second, I am contributing to the oceans’ rising?”
I had to read this twice. The author of the column this was addressed to gave his neither here nor there opinion, which you can read at the link above. I find myself wondering though, when did we start looking at children not as a “bundle of joy” to be loved and cherished, but as a plague upon dear Mother Earth, like pestilence to be eradicated? The Medical Journal of Australia suggests a tax penalty for those couples who have more than two children, one to replace each parent.
One of the major traits in the modern environmental movement is a profound self loathing, to the point where only self induced extinction will suffice as a cure. Unfortunately, that means everyones’ extinction, not just their own. There is serious talk in the halls of academia about the need to reduce the earth’s population by the billions, eliminating the “useless eaters” who scurry about like cockroaches, producing more of their “inferior” kind. Of course, usually you will hear that very same propaganda pushed forward in the mainstream Media and our children’s schools, only cleaned up and put in a prettier light. This is a disgrace akin to Hitler’s “cleansing” eugenics program, only in a different wrapper. Why?
I have written in the past about how global warming is one of the biggest scams ever sold, and I will soon post those blogs to this site. In order for the groups which seek the globalization of government (i.e. the UN, EU, and the like) to gain our consent to encroach on our laws and liberties, they need a single, unifying force capable of binding us together in a noble crusade. Thus far, global warming has fit the bill quite nicely. We are willing to not only submit to, but readily justify such draconian edicts as Chinas’ famous One Child Policy, regardless of the many forced abortions and sterilizations that follow. It always seemed hypocritical to me that the most vocal voices for state mandated birth control and womens’ rights fall silent when confronted by the anguished cried of the women whose infants are cruelly torn from their wombs. We are complicit in these atrocities because we give our silent consent. Apparently, totalitarianism is more “Green” than personal freedom.
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