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Carbon Scheme: Offset Your Jet-Set Lifestyle by Eliminating African Babies (Hilary White, December 14, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com)

Population control groups have been using the hype surrounding the Copenhagen climate change conference to promote their solution to hypothetical impending environmental catastrophes. Earlier this month, two pieces appearing in the same edition of the Guardian revisited a report by Britain's Optimum Population Trust (OPT) that suggests that people in wealthy first-world countries should "offset" the carbon cost of their jet-setting lifestyles by paying to prevent the births of poor children in the developing world.

John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor, wrote that the OPT's report suggesting a "radical" plan to cut carbon emissions was the "best bet" to reduce global warming trends. In August, the OPT issued a report claiming to have made a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis to work out exactly how much "carbon emission" a child born in the developing world costs.

Given that the Malthusians presumably have larger carbon footprints than poor Africans, shouldn't they "prevent" themselves if they really care about the planet?

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 15, 2009 6:38 AM