Some scientific research is stupid and some scientific research is plainly evil. A new study coming out of Oregon State University (OSU) manages to be both stupid and evil. Some statisticians at OSU crunched some numbers and determined that each new bun that comes out of the oven adds 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent. Furthermore (Surprise!), Americans are the biggest offenders. A new baby in the good Old US-of-A will belch out more carbon dioxide than a new baby in India . . . lower mortality rates, Big Macs, etc.
Notice too that the term “carbon footprint” has apparently evolved and expanded into “carbon legacy!” Gaia help us, we humans are far more evil than we could have ever realized! My four kids mean that my wife and I have ballooned our carbon legacy by 37,764 metric tons of carbon dioxide . . . and that’s not even taking into account future grandchildren or great grandchildren or etcetera, etcetera . . . you get the point. Then, what if my wife and I throw caution (and Gaia) to the wind and have a (GASP!) fifth child?! Oh, the humanity environment!
That’s why the helpful green statisticians at OSU are recommending that we fatso, carbon belching Americans all plan to have one less child. Mind you, they don’t go into detail on how to do that. In fact, they plainly stated that they aren’t necessarily suggesting China-like population controls and they didn’t even broach the topic of skipping one’s next romantic rendezvous or other techniques favored (nay loved!) by liberal environmentalists, like abortion. They’re just giving a helpful nudge-nudge, say no more type of suggestion . . . you know, think of Gaia before you . . .
My response to the good, green Professor Paul Murtaugh of OSU, one of the lead statisticians in the OSU study?
Go pound sand. The more kids, the better. Hell, I like babies a lot. Gaia will just have to adjust. After all, we are the stewards of the earth and have been given dominion over it. In my opinion, it’s not Gaia first and people second. Professor Murtaugh has it bass-ackward.
So, Professor Paul, I’ll leave you with a dedication to your green stupidity; every time one of my little carbon bombs emits an embarrassing burst of greenhouse gas, I’ll think to myself, “That one’s for you, Professor Murtaugh.” And, from my keyboard to God’s ear, I pray that my wife and I are perhaps blessed with more children and many, many grandchildren and great grandchildren. May we be knee deep in beautiful little carbon bombs. Amen!
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I am only an Aunt, but
TxTess (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 1:11PM EST (link)I love my nephews. I can’t even imagine what the loss of any of them would do to our family. Just a quick piece of advise though, be careful and don’t name children a verb, say like “Chase”. You will then have to act on that verb. It takes 2 adults at a time to keep track of my Chase and he’s only 6. Heaven help us when he’s a teen.
Awesome post as always!
Because I walk softly and carry a big Lipstick – Lori_Z at Red State
Haha - go chase Chase!
GremlinJones (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 4:58PM EST (link)My pet peeve for baby naming has got to be the last-name first-name trend. Maybe it’s just here in California… ya know, (Ford, Mason, Hunter, Logan, Jackson, Cooper, etc.)
They thought about naming him Hunter,
TxTess (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 5:22PM EST (link)but the name they chose is apt. He wants to be a police officer like his Dad.
Because I walk softly and carry a big Lipstick – Lori_Z at Red State
They thought about naming him Hunter,
TxTess (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 5:22PM EST (link)but the name they chose is apt. He wants to be a police officer like his Dad.
Because I walk softly and carry a big Lipstick – Lori_Z at Red State
TxTess,
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 11:06AM EST (link)Chase is an excellent name for the child of a police officer. If he someday follows in the footsteps of his father and becomes a police officer, may he chase and apprehend many a bad guy (and do so safely!).
I’m a Catholic, so I have a habit of thinking about patron saints. I believe the patron saint of police officers is none other than the Archangel St. Michael. So, may St. Michael, by the power of God, watch over you and your family and protect you and your family from evil.
Thanks for reading and commenting . . .
Take Care, mailloux
I am only an Aunt, but
TxTess (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 1:11PM EST (link)I love my nephews. I can’t even imagine what the loss of any of them would do to our family. Just a quick piece of advise though, be careful and don’t name children a verb, say like “Chase”. You will then have to act on that verb. It takes 2 adults at a time to keep track of my Chase and he’s only 6. Heaven help us when he’s a teen.
Awesome post as always!
Because I walk softly and carry a big Lipstick – Lori_Z at Red State
Let's procreate more conservative babies.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 1:15PM EST (link)Some of them will become scientists and engineers who will solve the world’s environmental problems in the future.
Rod_Patrick, demographically speaking . . .
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 11:14AM EST (link)You’re definitely on to something here!
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment . . .
Take Care, mailloux
It's Not Enough.
farstar99 (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 2:34PM EST (link)We need forced abortions, forced euthanasia, health rationing, eugenics and forced sterilizations if we’re going to save Gaia.
Obama says so.
And forcing things on people is what the Democrats are all about.
Yup, just ask Barry's "science" advisor
ColdWarrior (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 3:13PM EST (link)http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=52080
Click on these snippets at the link above:
# When Is a Human a ‘Human Being’? Ask the White House Science Adviser
# In the 70s, Obama’s Science Adviser Endorsed Giving Trees Legal Standing to Sue in Court
# White House Science Adviser Advocated ‘De-Development’ of the United States
# Obama’s Science Czar Said a Born Baby ‘Will Ultimately Develop Into a Human Being’
# The Global Redistributionist at Obama’s Left Hand
We truly have the “political children” at the levers of political power.
I sincerely hope the American voting public will finally get it through their heads that who occupies the Oval Office really, really matters.
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Have you ever noticed
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 1:56AM EST (link)how they push birth control and sex ed in schools and encourage unmarried people to have relations but when young women are with their own husbands having children they criticize it. It’s so backwards.
Gee, what kind of imbalance in the system
Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 6:05PM EST (link)did my wife and I cause when we “imported” our little “carbon bombs” from Russia? Do internationl adoptions now qualify as carbon offsets? This stuff just keeps getting sillier and sillier. It would be sad if wasn’t also evil. Great post Mark!
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Sorry for the double post
Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 6:07PM EST (link)If someone can delete the one above I would appreciate it.
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
Lammo, you may have committed a carbon debit rather than a credit!
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 11:34AM EST (link)You’re little carbon bombs from Russia (and God Bless you, your wife, and children! Adoption is a wonderful thing. My wife and I are looking over options between domestic adoption and international) would likely be considered a carbon debit. The lives of your children will be enhanced here in the USA and very likely a lot longer than if they lived as orphans in Russia. Hence, more carbon emissions! The enviros are probably shaking their heads and apologizing to old growth trees for your thoughtless behavior! God, on the other hand, is smiling down on your beautiful family.
Take Care, Mark
Gee, what kind of imbalance in the system
Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 6:06PM EST (link)did my wife and I cause when we “imported” our little “carbon bombs” from Russia? Do international adoptions now create carbon offsets? This stuff just keeps getting sillier and sillier. It would be sad if wasn’t also evil. Great post Mark!
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
The new Malthusians have no excuse
aesthete (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 9:09PM EST (link)Their ideas may have been fashionable at a time when little was known about the processes that create wealth and the like, but now that we have some knowledge about the way that humans solve problems, there’s no better answer than to say “go pound some sand”, as you put it. Our ability to fix our environmental messes (which aren’t even particularly large, when put into perspective) isn’t static, and some bright kid will divine a way to make our technology even more environmentally friendly and less costly.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
aesthete, you bring up a very interesting point that would make a better study . . .
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 1:46PM EST (link)I wonder what the estimate of doctors or scientists lost to abortion is? What then is the probability that a discovery of some importance is lost or delayed due to abortion? After all, we voluntarily reduce our human capital through abortion. What have we potentially lost in terms of innovations/inventions by engaging in such a mass slaughter?
Some statistician should work on that one . . . maybe I’ll even have a whack at it. My MS is in Quantitative Methods (i.e. statistics) and I’m currently employed as an applied statistician of sorts (a policy analyst for a university . . . aka “institutional research”).
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment . . .
Take Care, mailloux
Brings to mind an ad...
From ME to You (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 2:33PM EST (link)for the UNCF that reminds us that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”. Implying that by not sending an African American child to college we may be throwing away an important discovery of one sort or another.
Perhaps we should use the same marketing technique for an anti-abortion message:
Babies are a terrible thing to waste!
This "study" conveniently serves a few purposes...
Jake W (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 9:16PM EST (link)First, it helps further the cause of the culture of death.
Second, it blames the USA.
Third, it argues that we ought to do something or else global warming (BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!) will get us all.
What we are looking at here, ladies and gentlemen, is a classic case of Leftism in action.
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Jake W, a great synopsis . . .
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 1:53PM EST (link)that study really is a liberal trifecta, jackpot!
Thanks for reading, the comments, and the reco too.
Take Care, mailloux
So what do you and your wife say
Uma Richie (Diary) Wednesday, August 5th at 9:57PM EST (link)when you strangers comment on your family size? My brood is a near replica of yours (BBGG/same age range). On virtually every outing I hear, “Wow, you have your hands full.”
I usually respond with words expressing love for my children, joy in raising them, and gratitude for the blessing that they are, but I am looking for something short, clever and memorable that conveys the same idea. I figure that if I say the right thing, I can educate at least one person every day on the goodness of large families.
Uma_Richie, my wife and I get the same sort of comments . . .
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 10:09AM EST (link)as do some of our friends. One family we know (the Godparents of our 2 year old) have 8 kids and another family (they run a dairy farm) have 13. Compared to them, my wife and I have a small family!
To those who remark on our 4 kids with surprise (the old, “Four! Isn’t 2 more than enough” sort of look), I usually say something along the lines of:
“Well you know, kids are a lot like chips . . . you just can’t have one.”
If they push further, then I’ll go on about the challenges and the joys and remind them that the most worthwhile endeavors in life are the ones where we behave most selflessly, and children require just that kind of approach.
If that fails to make an impact and if I sense the person is somewhat anti-child, especially if I detect liberal reasons for being anti-child (like environmental ones), I’ll jokingly say:
“When I’m an old and gray, I’m banking on my kids taking better care of me than an underpaid aid in some nursing home.”
Anyhow, that’s some of my responses. I think it’s good to pepper them with some humor and snark depending on the audience (i.e. some folks ask the question as an indirect condemnation of having many kids . . . these are the ones where a little snark is warranted, if not helpful).
Uma, thanks for reading my post!
Take Care, mailloux
Mailloux, my only regret that I have ever had about children...
penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 11:20AM EST (link)was that I could not have more. My immediate reaction to your post last night, was to tell you I hope you have another one. I think it is great. We were Very Blessed to have had my girl and twin boys. Disastrous complications almost took their lives and mine both times. God gave me three miracle babies and no one can tell me otherwise.
Of course, they’ll still probably put me in a nursing home…but I did the best I could.
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mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 2:21PM EST (link)I’ve heard that regret mentioned many times by folks with kids . . . especially after the kids are grown and off on their own.
Children really are miracles of God and warrant just about the biggest “thank you” we could ever give our Maker.
As far as the nursing home goes . . . who knows? Maybe my wife and I will be in rooms just down the hall from you. I’ll see you at bingo night!
Take Care, mailloux
even with one
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 1:49AM EST (link)people manage to get out their anti-child comments:
Aren’t you glad you just had one
I bet you are glad you didn’t have more
One is enough
Alll you need is one
I had a second trimester loss after my son was born and after sharing with someone they said they was a blessing what would you do with two?
sigh sigh sigh
I do LOL at some of the humor responses moms of large families say but wouldn’t be appropriate to type here!
When my son was little, I worked with a girl that would bring her kids over a lot, they were all mixed race and just gorgeous (not pale like me!), when we would go out SOOO many people said How many more are you going to have? ugh!! Four beautiful happy smiling kids under four years old and that is what they think to say
They are anti-family, after the anti-child statements when they know I’m single they start with the you don’t need a man comments. Why do they hate families so much, I don’t get it. I don’t see how people have lost so much respect for women in general to even comment on something so personal like future child bearing. I think it all ties in some how, the whole lack of respect.
Penguin, I have twin boys too.
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 1:56AM EST (link)They are all grown up now, 26 years old.
We also have a 13 year old and an 8 year old.
I am with you…we would have had a dozen more had God been willing.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
I clicked on the article
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 11:36AM EST (link)and the banner ad was “Looking for an obstetrician” for NW Women’s Health Clinic! LOL
mom2oneson, now that is ironic isn't it?!
mailloux (Diary) Thursday, August 6th at 2:16PM EST (link)and worthy of a good laugh!
Thanks too for reading, commenting, and the reco.
Take Care, mailloux
Beautiful as usual mailoux. Very well done. nt
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Friday, August 7th at 1:59AM EST (link)To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher