Posted on 07/12/2017 4:56:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children
Next best actions are selling your car, avoiding flights and going vegetarian, according to study into true impacts of different green lifestyle choices
The greatest impact individuals can have in fighting climate change is to have one fewer child, according to a new study that identifies the most effective ways people can cut their carbon emissions.
The next best actions are selling your car, avoiding long flights, and eating a vegetarian diet. These reduce emissions many times more than common green activities, such as recycling, using low energy light bulbs or drying washing on a line. However, the high impact actions are rarely mentioned in government advice and school textbooks, researchers found.
Carbon emissions must fall to two tonnes of CO2 per person by 2050 to avoid severe global warming, but in the US and Australia emissions are currently 16 tonnes per person and in the UK seven tonnes. “That’s obviously a really big change and we wanted to show that individuals have an opportunity to be a part of that,” said Kimberly Nicholas, at Lund University in Sweden and one of the research team.
The new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, sets out the impact of different actions on a comparable basis. By far the biggest ultimate impact is having one fewer child, which the researchers calculated equated to a reduction of 58 tonnes of CO2 for each year of a parent’s life.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
too late twelve.
the study is recommending US, EU, Canada and Australia have fewer children, when these countries have some of the lowest birthrates in the world!
12 Jul: Breitbart: Oliver JJ Lane: Guardian: Save The Planet, Have Fewer Children
Having children is a “lifestyle choice” to be discouraged among young people in developed nations and is bad for the planet, according to a new paper trailed positively by the British left-wing Guardian newspaper...
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/12/guardian-save-the-planet-have-fewer-children/
Throw a liberal in a volcano and hope he/she is a virgin. Since volcanoes cause 95% ofglobal warming this might help.
Correct
You've probably also noticed that "environmentalist" left-wingers only complain about overpopulation when it's white westerners having children, in spite of the fact that women in most developed nations aren't even having children at replacement level while in Third World countries, your average woman seems to have anywhere from a half dozen to a full dozen. Yet the environmentalists Left seldom if ever complains about the high fertilities of women in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab world, or Central America, all the while whining about how American families with 2 children leave too much of a "Carbon footprint".
Similarly, "green" advocates of population control walk hand in hand with fellow leftists who advocate open borders - in spite of mass Third World immigration being the biggest contribution to population growth in the western world.
In other words, all this talk about being "green" and "protecting the planet" has nothing to do with "the environment" - it's just another tool to be used to crush western nations and enable Third World nations and peoples.
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