A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environment-friendly practices people might employ during their entire lives - things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.Global warming is your fault for having the audacity to have children.
Under current conditions in the United States, for instance, each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent - about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for which, on average, a person is responsible.But, have no fear, the study authors say, the length of a child's lifespan will directly affect his "overall impact on the global carbon equation."
The impact of having children differs between countries. While some developing nations have much higher populations and rates of population growth than the United States, their overall impact on the global carbon equation is often reduced by shorter life spans and less consumption.So, if your child dies young, you can take some solace in the fact that his negative impact on the environment will be so much less. A comforting thought, indeed.
And, implies the study, we should all be grateful for those kids in China that have been killed over the one-child-per-family rule and third world poverty that kills children across this fever-riddled globe of ours.The long-term impact of a child born to a family in China is less than one-fifth the impact of a child born in the United States, the study found.Who the heck thinks like this? Who could get a birth announcement in the mail and think "Oh my God! The environment!!"
The tax-payer supported professors at OSU, and their Liberal kook friends, that's who.
Well, thank goodness that someone is doing something about global warming. Even though it doesn't exist.
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