A Consideration of the opinion of a mate…

Climate change is often focused around carbon – how much is in the earth, in the atmosphere, and how much we are changing those amounts.  I am seeing a connection this week between carbon releases and population growth.  When you think about it, the more people there are, the greater their carbon footprint.  A non-person would have a carbon footprint of zero, after all.  And when you think of the footprints of the descendants of this non-person also being zero – the impacts are huge!  Less people, less emissions, less impact, right?  So – for all of the efforts that governments to go to impose controls and sanctions on corporations that emit high amounts of carbon, or the oil sands with their huge carbon footprint, governments would do better to send the message that the more non-persons we have, the lesser their footprint would be. 

But maybe it is not just in the hands of government?  Maybe corporations in an effort to expand their carbon offsetting schemes will invest in family planning initiatives and organizations.  Perhaps we can even develop a new market for persons and non-persons, moving them as needed to properly offset their impacts. 

Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian thinking shows that the population bomb has exploded, and only in the support control programs can we even consider our any stability on of this world.  What a wonderful and clean world we will have, full of non-persons.



Personal Edit/Response: I cannot deny the astronomical effects out-of-control population growth is going to have on this planet.  My contention is with those that besmirch those that have children, to the point that even ostracizing them as the walk down the street.  Have 14 kids is a bit much, but our children will be the ones to find a way forward where we have yet not done so.  When I asked my 4 year old what he wanted for his 5th birthday, he said he wanted to make the world more green.  Is it not these kinds of people that we want in the world?