Children 'bad for planet'

There was a story today out of Australia entitled Children 'bad for planet'. It does a great job at illustrating how much a person's world view affects what they do, and what they try to force others to do.

The Bible says "be fruitful and multiply". It speaks of children as being a blessing from God. These and other statements no doubt have something to do with the "family values" thinking of Christians. Children are valued. Life is valued. Christians fight to protect life.

This guy wants to eliminate it. He basically blames families with more than two children for destroying the planet. His position give scientific "justification" that would lead to conclude such things as:

• Abortion is good. It's environmentally sound! You can eliminate those little carbon-producing machines before they even leave a footprint!
  
• Not having a child is morally equivalent to recycling a plastic bag.
• People in developed countries (i.e. the evil western ones) are to blame for everything, even though he admits that most of the children that will be born will be in developing countries.

I think the way for us to survive is to work hard developing technologies that enable MORE people to have the kind of great lives we have in western industrialized societies. The ingenuity that invents machines that cause pollution problems is the same ingenuity that can clean it up -- and has! The developed countries of the world are the clean ones. If you want to see real pollution, go to an undeveloped or developing country.

If this guy is right and there is global warming that is caused by the carbon footprint of evil children, the likely solution to the problem will come from some young scientist or engineer that he would rather see not born. And chances are nearly 100% that such a child would be born in an evil industrialized country, not to a carbon-neutral tribe in the amazon.