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Environmentalist Proposes Tax Breaks For Only Having One Kid... Because Of Carbon Footprint

Jillian Bandes
Jillian Bandes  |  October 19, 2009 6:45 PM
It's only a "thought experiment," said Andrew Revkin, an environmental reporter for the New York Times.
...probably the single most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids, having fewer children.