CARBON KIDS

(sigh)

I recently read an article in a respected news magazine about children being bad for the environment. Now aside from the fact that I've written several times on this blog about my intolerance for poorly-behaving children in public places, this article pushed my buttons.

Mark Steyn from the Orange County, CALIFORNIA (where freakin' ELSE!!!) Register thinks kids are as bad as SUVs for the environment since they're "belching carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and choking the planet with their waste and pollution." This thinking, however, is not just limited to the lunatic left in California but has migrated to Australia where a local professor there has called upon the Australian government to require parents to pay a "carbon tax" every time they have a child and be given a "carbon credit" to those voluntarily undergoing sterilization.

In the late sixties I remember the then-new initiative called Zero Population Growth (ZPG), which was considered at the time to be over-reaching. The idea behind ZPG was that couples should have only two children who would replace themselves but not add to the population numbers. That concept is tame today compared to some of the stuff out there (like what I've written in this post).

Is it possible to find a middle ground?

(sigh)