Professor Says Fix Climate Change By Refraining from Having Kids

Travis Rieder, he of Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, says that the answer to fixing the climate change problem is for people to simply stop having kids.

Rieder says that the best way to protect kids, as we all supposedly stare down the barrel of the climate change gun, is ���by not having them.���

You see, in the world of the climate change alarmists, it is the existence of people that serves as the ultimate source of the problem. Here���s why: You may have heard of ���greenhouse gases,��� which are responsible for creating a ���greenhouse��� effect in the earth���s atmosphere, as they absorb infrared radiation and end up making the earth warmer. Well, carbon dioxide is one of the principal greenhouse gases, and enters the earth���s atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels ��� coal, natural gas, and oil; and who is responsible for the burning of these fossil fuels? People.

That is, in a nutshell, at what Rieder is getting. If there are many fewer of us, then the collective ���carbon footprint��� left by the earth���s population will be smaller, and greenhouse gas emissions would be much lower.
Rieder sees the possibility of a global fertility rate dropping to a half-child for each woman as ���the thing that saves us.��� Rieder proposes that, in poorer countries, women should be paid to refill their birth control, while in richer nations���which are more responsible for higher greenhouse gas emissions, anyway���more draconian measures could be put in place, like getting rid of tax breaks associated with having kids, and even instituting penalties for new parents.

Wow.

As Marc Morano of Climate Depot, a website that seeks to debunk the progressive-oriented arguments about global warming, says, ���The warmists have now graduated from regulating our light bulbs, coal plants and SUVs to regulating our family size.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large