Comments on: Saving the planet by having fewer kids http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/21/saving-the-planet-by-having-fewer-kids/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Suzanne A. http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/21/saving-the-planet-by-having-fewer-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-4677 Suzanne A. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:39:00 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7521#comment-4677 Excellent points Melissa! Excellent points Melissa!

]]> By: Melissa http://www.prowomanprolife.org/2009/11/21/saving-the-planet-by-having-fewer-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-4672 Melissa Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:16:07 +0000 http://www.prowomanprolife.org/?p=7521#comment-4672 This particular philosophy has always made me laugh. The birth rate has been dropping, significantly, over the last hundred years. Children make up a significantly smaller proportion of the population pyramid than they have in the past. The reason that the world population is increasing is not that we are having children--it is that people aren't dying as early as they used to. Which makes me wonder--why aren't these population control fans advocating the cessation of medical research, so as that people won't live quite as long? After all, if you compare the carbon footprint of a kid to a retiree, the retiree is the one who emits much more carbon, what with jet-setting off on vacations and whatnot. Ah but see, these population control people have already passed their childhood, and are therefore safe. If they were to advocate dying earlier, that would be something that would actually affect them. This particular philosophy has always made me laugh. The birth rate has been dropping, significantly, over the last hundred years. Children make up a significantly smaller proportion of the population pyramid than they have in the past.

The reason that the world population is increasing is not that we are having children–it is that people aren’t dying as early as they used to.

Which makes me wonder–why aren’t these population control fans advocating the cessation of medical research, so as that people won’t live quite as long? After all, if you compare the carbon footprint of a kid to a retiree, the retiree is the one who emits much more carbon, what with jet-setting off on vacations and whatnot.

Ah but see, these population control people have already passed their childhood, and are therefore safe. If they were to advocate dying earlier, that would be something that would actually affect them.

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