Big Brother blither: Tax USA college kids who have kids, not the poor in other countries
Big Brother blither:
 Tax USA college kids who have kids, not the poor in other counties.  Â
Large families good? Ask them!Â
Climate philosopher Travis Rieder curently  tours the USA.
 Rieder  tries to persuade university students not to have kids.
Reider and others promote their  ideas for restricting childbirth.  Via taxes.  They want tax penalties against people who decide to have a child.
tax penalty for having a child in rich USA, Â Reider wants
This is whatTravis Rieder tells college kids: Â Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children.
Or at least that college students will not have  too many.
He’s at James Madison University in southwest Virginia to talk about a “small-family ethicâ€.
Rieder questions  the assumptions of a society that sees having children as good, throws parties for expecting parents, and in which parents then pressure their kids to “give them grandchildren.â€
Why question such assumptions? The prospect of climate catastrophe …
Rieder and his Georgetown collaborators have a proposal, and the first thing they stress is that it’s not like China’s abusive one-child policy.
These  Georgetown Big Brother  blither types  aim to persuade people to choose fewer children.
What they offer is  a strategy that boils down to carrots for the poor  and sticks for the rich.
sticks for the rich… carrots for the poor  ….. Â
Ethically, Rieder says poor nations get some slack because they’re still developing.  Â
Large families common in some parts of the world
And, poor nations get slack  …
adolescent families cut slack in poor countries
because he says that  their per capita emissions are a sliver of the developed world’s.
