Filed under: global warming, population control | Tags: global warming, greenhouse gases, humans, inconvenient truth, overpopulation, population, sterilization
I’m really not clear on what the big problem is in finding a solution to Global Warming. Everybody knows the answer, but no one want to say it out loud. 
“Sterilization”
There, I said it. Hold your gasps, shut your bibles and just try pondering without prejudice. Yea, I know China tried it and ended up with thousands of female fetuses hidden under beds in shoeboxes. Though since China has now officially surpassed us as the biggest polluter, the comparison wouldn’t be that far off base.
So, simple answer = Cap-and-Trade. Cap the results of procreation and Trade the extra hungry mouths for less eco impact.
The ugly truth is humans made the problem and we’re making more humans every day. Exponentially more.
In the next 3 generation the US population will grow from 375 million to 750 Million. That’s a lot of McDonalds and Hummers. Would you want to be around gasping for air while trying to chug down a Coke? Why do that to you great grandkids?
Instead, let’s start randomly sterilizing 5 out of every 10 infants born. It would be done by lottery and no government records kept. No one would even know they were incapable of spawning until they got tested as adults
Other benefits? Rich Americans desperate for kids would join the ranks of Angelina and Madonna and start adopting children from impoverished nations. It’s win, win.
Simple, see?
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Funny but not so funny. This could work!
Comment by greensense October 7, 2007 @ 2:11 amTo have a child is a basic human right, and what you are advocating is a breach of one of the most fundamental of human rights. The end does not justify the means. Funny, but I thought the left was all about human rights. What a joke!
Comment by Emily November 29, 2007 @ 12:38 amIn China, before the one child policy was introduced, couples, too, were offered incentives to sterilize themselves, go on the pill, etc. And now – many Chinese women are forcibly sterilized and many who fall pregnant for a second or third time have their unborn babies forcibly ripped from them. Various international organizations have reported on such incidents. Infanticide of baby girls is also happening on a large scale. China, being the patriarchal society that it is, does not value women. Do you see where what you are advocating leads???
Anyway, if you look at the TFR of countries throughout the western world (Europe, US, Australia, etc) and, indeed, many developing nations, they are not replacing themselves(that is, the national TFR is below 2.1). The effect an ageing population is going to have on these nations – and the world – in the years to come will be more devastaing than supposed global warming.
I’d like to laugh at your abuse of facts, but it’s really just sad. The right to procreate is NOT a human right. Do you have that particular bill– cause I’ve never seen it. And, the rate of Chinese babies being killed has been grossly overstated. In any case if you read the full blog, you’d see that my suggetions would avoid such a scenario. Are you really that concerned about sr. citizens? Let me clue you in on something. That’s an economic, medical and social burden, not even close to being on par with global warming. That’s like worrying about a crooked painting while your house is burning down. Besides, if we gave a shit about anyone over age 70 in this country rather than viewing them as a burden, perhaps we wouldn’t view some of our most valued intellectual assets as economic burdens! Maybe if we had less new lives popping out, we’d value our old ones more…eh?
Comment by greensense December 3, 2007 @ 12:18 pmvery interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Comment by Idetrorce December 15, 2007 @ 1:56 pmIdetrorce