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Fran[_2_]

On Mar 15, 3:56 pm, "oobnz" wrote:
Save the planet! Don't breed!

Correction: [breed less]

March 15 2009

A new paper by Oregon State University scientists, lucky to still find
enough peers to review:

Here we estimate the extra emissions of fossil carbon dioxide that an
average individual causes when he or she chooses to have children.

The summed emissions of a person's descendants, weighted by their
relatedness to him, may far exceed the lifetime emissions produced by the
original parent.

Under current conditions in the United States, for example, each child adds
about 9441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average
female, which is 5.7 times her lifetime emissions.

A person's reproductive choices must be considered along with his day-today
activities when assessing his ultimate impact on the global environment.

Scary, if such scientists ever had, er, now that such scientists actually
have influence.

Why would that be 'scary'?

Fran

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