Link: http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2016/08/25/your_damn_children_are_killin g_the_planet_109234.html
August 25, 2016
Your Damn Children are Killing the Planet By Doug Domenech
There, he said it. Children, especially American born children in particular, are a burden to the world’s climate. On a recent episode of the popular NPR show “All Things Considered,” Jennifer Ludden reported that Travis Rieder, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics, “has proposed a controversial remedy for the effects of global warming: population control.” When it comes to climate change, Professor Rieder posits, “So here's what's happening, when I have a kid I'm creating a being who's doing [a] much greater proportion of the contribution to the harm. And she's not going to suffer for it. The other kid is. And that seems unfair.” He says the world's poorest nations will suffer most even though rich countries like the U.S. create far more carbon emissions per capita. So a child born in America is guiltier than a child born in an impoverished country. Take that thought in for a second. Page 1