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.   

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.

This is whatTravis Rieder tells college kids:  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.

Heâ€s at James Madison University in southwest Virginia to talk about a “small-family ethic”.

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.”

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 itâ€s not like Chinaâ€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.

 

Ethically, Rieder says poor nations get some slack because theyâ€re still developing.   

And, poor nations get slack  …

because he says that  their per capita emissions are a sliver of the developed worldâ€s.

The USA ranks 11 or 12 in emissions per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

 http://www.organicauthority.com/sanctuary/a-non-profit-organization-girl-effect.html

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Firenze Sage:   This is reverse Margaret Sanger. Take the smart ones out of the baby business and put the uneducated poor in.