The global warming agenda, if enacted, will lead to less freedom, lower prosperity, and higher taxes (as in the EPA taking “command and control” over the economy). But it could also lead to tyranny and profound anti humanism. Example: China is extolling its population control despotism, as if the country should receive carbon credits for female infanticide and forced abortion. From a story in China Daily:
Population and climate change are intertwined but the population issue has remained a blind spot when countries discuss ways to mitigate climate change and slow down global warming, according to Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) . “Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture,” said Zhao, who is a member of the Chinese government delegation.
Many studies link population growth with emissions and the effect of climate change. “Calculations of the contribution of population growth to emissions growth globally produce a consistent finding that most of past population growth has been responsible for between 40 per cent and 60 percent of emissions growth,” so stated by the 2009 State of World Population, released earlier by the UN Population Fund.
Although China’s family planning policy has received criticism over the past three decades, Zhao said that China’s population program has made a great historic contribution to the well-being of society. As a result of the family planning policy, China has seen 400 million fewer births, which has resulted in 18 million fewer tons of CO2 emissions a year, Zhao said.
Alas, some notables in the West have called for draconian population controls here. Hey, think about the carbon reduction potential of mass euthanasia of the unproductive: Why, killing become a whole new Green industry!
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