What’s Your Carbon Footprint?
This question has become a Madison Avenue money maker but the global hype about the mythology of human caused global warming is beginning to show its radical foundations. The Daily Mail, for example, is running an article about women who claim that they have undergone sterilization and even abortion in order to reduce their carbon footprints. Kill a child, lower your carbon footprint. Sweet.
These “humanitarians” argue that having children is selfish. Now why would one say that having children is selfish? Isn’t it ironic that selfishness is the first “thought” that comes to their minds. Now if there is any logic to this thoughtless rejoinder then it would have to arise from the perverse notion that the reason one has children is for personal fulfillment rather than for the sake of love. It’s not that children are not personally fulfilling, they are. But when one sees children as means to satisfy selfish desires rather than as ends in themselves, one can see where this distorted thinking arises.
However, I would suggest that the reason that selfishness naturally comes to mind is that pesky effect known as projection. Selfishness is not wanting to share one’s life, goods, love with others. It is selfishness when children are viewed in economic terms rather than as blessings of love.
Planned Parenthood has been handed its next big money making idea: in addition to planting trees, companies can get green points by lowering their overall carbon footprints by paying for their workers’ sterilizations and abortions. An idea made in hell.
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Not only selfishness but also a sense of despair…..that next child could come up with a radical new idea to help transform the world and save the planet. Aborting and sterilization are sense giving into despair that says it is too late to effect change. However, these women ( and the men with them ) are indeed the epitome of selfishness. If you are willing to abort your own child to save the planet, I got news for you. YOU ARE STILL USING UP NATURAL RESOURCES even when you abort and are sterilized. The next logical step would be suicide ( then your carbon footprint is identically zero ) but they never seen to reach THAT conclusion. Fear, despair, cowardice…..aren’t crises supposed to bring out the best in people?
Comment by Peter — November 26, 2007 @ 5:15 am
Sounds like eco-nazi Darwinism to me.
Comment by Tony — November 26, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
Sounds like eco-nazi Darwinism to me.
I dunno… From an Darwinian point of view, this view seems to drastically reduce (indeed, remove) “reproductive fitness”. The ironic thing is, this secular/materialistic urge to see humanity as a disease upon the planet involves acting in the opposite way any normal animal would.
Comment by DarwinCatholic — November 27, 2007 @ 3:27 pm