NYT Environment Reporter Floats Idea: Give Carbon Credits to Couples That Limit

[Chris_]

NYT Environment Reporter Floats Idea: Give Carbon Credits to Couples That Limit Themselves to One Child

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global warming: Give carbon credits to couples that limit themselves to having one child.

Revkin later told CNSNews.com that he was not endorsing the idea, just trying to provoke some thinking on the topic.
 
Revkin participated via Web camera in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on “Covering Climate: What’s Population Got to Do With It” that was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.  The other participants on the panel were Dennis Dimick, executive editor of National Geographic, and Emily Douglas, web editor for The Nation magazine.

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“So should there be, eventually you get, should you get credit--If we're going to become carbon-centric--for having a one-child family when you could have had two or three," said Revkin. "And obviously it's just a thought experiment, but it raises some interesting questions about all this.”

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“More children equal more carbon dioxide emissions,” blogged Revkin. “And recent research has resulted in renewed coverage of the notion that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control for tens of millions of women around the world who say they desire it.

“I recently raised the question of whether this means we’ll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation,” he later added. “This is purely a thought experiment, not a proposal.”

What a moron.  He must bathe in algore's kool-aid.   

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[jtyangel]

Ok, let's play his game. Give 'social security credits' to those with more then one kid since those extra children will be funding the actual system. If the person with one kid can't make their ss check off that one kid then reduce their benefits by the difference. Just sayin' (sorry peeps, trying to use some liberal logic here)

[JohnnyReb]

Just sayin' (sorry peeps, trying to use some liberal logic here)

Liberals should be required to put warning labels on their 'logic'.

[jinxmchue]

Oh. yay!  Great idea!  Let's be just like China!

[Deuce]

“This is purely a thought experiment, not a proposal.”

That is the warning label.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

And if you can kill 1 limousine liberal to be allowed to have up to 8 more children.