The Huffington Post's Dave Johnson offers a novel solution to global warming, and it doesn't involve your children:
...Yes, hundreds of millions of people will face water shortages and starvation by 2080 -- but only if those hundreds of millions of people are alive in the first place.
What am I getting at? One solution to the crisis is for people to stop having so many babies. We're already using up the fisheries. The cattle being raised to feed so many meat-eaters is as big a problem as the cars we're all driving.
There is plenty of time between now and 2080 to dramatically cut the population of the world by simply limiting how many babies we're all having. If there are fewer people around then fewer people face starvation, disease, dislocation and the rest of the consequences.
Johnson doesn't say whether or not he would have given such advice to his mother...
[HT: Acton Powerblog]
Comments (3)
Wow! It's too bad we on the "Conservative Right Wing" can't see the forest for the trees! Maybe we should also encourage "Same sex marriage" and stop fighting diseases like AIDS to help lower the worlds population. Talk about killing two birds with one stone....equally stupid statements.
March 14, 2007 5:41 PM | Comment Permalink
It's people like you who give Christianity a REALLY bad name. I have a strong faith in my God and it's not your hateful god. You should be ashamed for turning people away from the Lord with your hateful, narrow-minded, agenda.
March 14, 2007 5:56 PM | Comment Permalink
Population control is a good idea, but its very difficult to achieve in the countries that need it least, and next to impossible in the countries that need it most. China is an exception, but they only managed by being oppressive.
The US and most of Europe have no problem. Their growth rates are low. Its the less-developed countries that are still in a population explosion - most of Africa, much of South America. Some middle-eastern countries are just shooting up, because their culture demands a large family - those who dont have four or more children are judged failures.
March 15, 2007 6:41 AM | Comment Permalink