Children – Bad for Planet?
A report to be published soon by the Optimum Population Trust will state that having a large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags. They are defining a large family as more than 2 kids. They say that having 2 kids instead of 3 will allow families to cut their carbon dioxide output.
They state that even though most of the population growth will be in developing countries, rich countries should be the most concerned about family size as their children have higher per capita carbon dioxide emissions. Hmmm…Maybe they are on to something here. Maybe the problem isn’t the number of kids but that the kids in the rich countries have too much and waste too much! The folks producing the carbon dioxide emissions is who we need to be concerned about.
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