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Having children is one of the most destructive things you can to do the environment, say researchers
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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3018491" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>"Having <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Children" target="_blank">children</a> is the most destructive thing a person can to do to the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/environment" target="_blank">environment</a>, according to a new study.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/masters-in-europe-a-short-hop-to-academic-success-8206515.html" target="_blank">Researchers from Lund University in Sweden</a> found having one fewer child per family can save “an average of 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions per year”.</p><p></p><p>Eating meat, driving a car and travelling by aeroplane made up the list of the most polluting things people can do to the planet.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But having children was top, according to the new study, published in the journal <em>Environmental Research Letters'</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Murder and suicide would be another Alternative? </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>If that would save the planet, why not? LOL....</em></p><p><em><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html</a></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>70K suicides in India contributed to global warming.</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/01/59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-over-three-decades-may-be-linked-to-climate-change-study-says/?utm_term=.2a2442d137e1" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/01/59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-over-three-decades-may-be-linked-to-climate-change-study-says/?utm_term=.2a2442d137e1</a></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Every year, thousands of Indian farmers commit suicide. Now <span style="color: #ff0000">one researche</span>r thinks it may have something to do with climate change.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Tamma Carleton, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, compared almost five decades worth of suicide and climate data and concluded that temperature variations in India may have “a strong influence” on suicide rates during the growing season.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In her <a href="http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/07/31/study-climate-change-already-causing-suicides-in-india-as-crops-fail/" target="_blank">study</a>, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Carleton estimates that more than 59,000 farmer suicides over the past 30 years can be linked to global warming.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Do the warmers now understand why the skeptics call bullshat on anything they say?</em></p><p><em>It has got to the point of insanity on the left. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3018491, member: 5412"] "Having [URL='http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Children']children[/URL] is the most destructive thing a person can to do to the [URL='http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/environment']environment[/URL], according to a new study. [URL='http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/masters-in-europe-a-short-hop-to-academic-success-8206515.html']Researchers from Lund University in Sweden[/URL] found having one fewer child per family can save “an average of 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions per year”. Eating meat, driving a car and travelling by aeroplane made up the list of the most polluting things people can do to the planet. But having children was top, according to the new study, published in the journal [I]Environmental Research Letters' Murder and suicide would be another Alternative? If that would save the planet, why not? LOL.... [URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html[/URL] 70K suicides in India contributed to global warming. [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/01/59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-over-three-decades-may-be-linked-to-climate-change-study-says/?utm_term=.2a2442d137e1[/URL] Every year, thousands of Indian farmers commit suicide. Now [COLOR=#ff0000]one researche[/COLOR]r thinks it may have something to do with climate change. Tamma Carleton, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, compared almost five decades worth of suicide and climate data and concluded that temperature variations in India may have “a strong influence” on suicide rates during the growing season. In her [URL='http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/07/31/study-climate-change-already-causing-suicides-in-india-as-crops-fail/']study[/URL], published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Carleton estimates that more than 59,000 farmer suicides over the past 30 years can be linked to global warming. Do the warmers now understand why the skeptics call bullshat on anything they say? It has got to the point of insanity on the left. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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