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What's the best way to save the planet? Don't have kids, say researchers from Oregon State University.
"Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle," the report states.
The OSU study calculated the relative carbon impact of children born in the United States and then compared it to the carbon impact of other activities they considered to be unfriendly to the planet. A couple not having a child saves twenty times the amount of carbon compared to if that couple undertook a multitude of other carbon-saving activities, according...
Family Planning to Save the Planet?
Since CO2 does not much affect climate, as its effects "swap off" with water vapour's (No, Leroy, they don't magnify each other, they counterbalance), and since human input to global CO2 levels is miniscule (about 3%), the carbon impact of a car or child is irrelevant -- except as a club to beat down the productive in favor of the parasitic.