Children as Enemies of the Environment? A Good Riposte
Joanna Benn ponders in the BBC web site if “baby decisions” are “adding to the world’s woes”.
Yeah, right.
Luckily among the general doom and gloom, there is at least one reader making a very important comment to Benn’s absurdist thinking:
Hearing Ms Benn wonder aloud “how green it is” to have a child is chilling. My parents lived in a time when certain people asked each other, in deadly earnest, how “Aryan” some personal choices might be. One might turn and ask Ms Benn “how green it is” for HER to continue to walk the earth. After all, Ms Benn, with a residence of her own, undoubtedly consumes more valuable resources than an infant who simply
lives with its parents. But that is what we come to when we start running life by the numbers.
Seajay, Seattle, Washington
What Ms Benn does not realize, and what many people concerned about overpopulation don’t realize, is that it is one thing to wish a more manageable number of people to roam the world; but it is another, wholly different thing to behave and to reason as if children were things to hate.
And the latter is, frankly, monstrous.
Maurizio - Omnologos 
Filth like Benn are the logical extension of the Left, especially the eco-Left. Look up Zero Population Growth (ZPG) for a well established example.
Also remember that there’s only a very small gap between “Pro-Choice” and “Encouraged-Infanticide,” and that from there it is not broad a jump to China’s forced abortions.
jonolan
2008/Dec/15 at 23:21:47
[…] Let’s start considering their sensible attitude to past abuses of the overpopulation issue. Simply too many people have married the cause in the past because afraid of having to deal with millions of poor, black or Asian people. And still to this day, it is not difficult to find pea-brained arguments pitting children against the environment. […]
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