Philosophy 101

Two very chilling items from the environmentalist camp Down Under, proving that environmentalism ultimately seeks to sacrifice humans for the sake of nature:

An obstetrics (!) professor writes in the Medical Journal of Australia:

Of course, there is an even more potent strategy humans should adopt to modify climate change through their own activities — population control. …

Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing, but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society.

What then should we do as environmentally responsible medical practitioners? … [A] “Baby Levy” in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the “polluter pays” principle. Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children (Sustainable Population Australia suggests a maximum of two) should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being. … [E]ach child born should be offset by planting 4 hectares of trees, to allow for the time they take to reach maturity, and attrition through crop losses, bushfires, dieback and so on. …

As David Attenborough said: … instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, we should control the population to ensure the survival of the environment.

And, at the Mises Institute Ben O’Neill details an Australian government sponsored and endorsed environmental education website for children called, ironically, Planet Slayer:

Greena invites children to use the website’s Greenhouse Calculator to “find out what age you should die at so you don’t use more than your fair share of Earth’s resources.” This calculator helps children to determine how much of a “greenhouse pig” a person is by answering questions about how much the person spends and consumes. On the basis of these answers the calculator determines the person’s CO2 consumption, which is depicted by making the cartoon “greenhouse pig” look bigger, fatter, dirtier and angrier. When the child has answered the questions they are instructed to click on a skull and cross-bones symbol to find out when the person should die, depicted by having the pig explode in a bloody cartoon mess leaving only a pool of blood and a curly tail. For example, according to the calculator, the consumption of an “average Aussie pig” is 24.6 tonnes of CO2 per year. At this level, the calculator states:

Based on the emissions from your greenhouse usage, you used up your share of the planet by the time you were 9.3 years old! … You should die at age 9.3.