The Left's Global Warming Solution: No More Children! by Ben Shapiro

"Proving once again that foolish ideas don't die or fade away -- they walk the earth eternally, preying on the brains of the living -- scientists at a UK think tank have determined that the greatest threat to the planet is more human beings. 'The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights,' explains Professor John Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). 'The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.'

The OPT is hardly the first to jump on the Malthusian bandwagon. The environmental left is in a constant state of apoplexy about the environmental cost of human existence. Back in 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich published his famous -- and entirely erroneous -- anti-reproduction manifesto, 'The Population Bomb.' 'The battle to feed all of humanity is over,' Ehrlich claimed. 'In the 1970s the world will undergo famines -- hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.' His solution: 'The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate. We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out.' "

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