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July 29, 2008
Deranged Doctors Diagnose Humans as the Disease
"First, do no harm" was once the motto of the medical profession. But that was before it became infected with the antihuman ideology known as modern environmentalism. The prestigious British Medical Journal has actually published an editorial calling on doctors to discourage their patients from having children, on the grounds that human beings are bad for the planet.
According to the authors of the editorial — life-long Malthusian Professor John Guillebaud and Pip Hayes, an Exeter-based GP — not having children is "analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high-carbon cars." Newborn babies are a danger to the environment, they argue, and although they rhetorically state that "we must not put pressure on people," pressure is exactly what they want doctors to exercise as part of this new Malthusian crusade.
These sick doctors aren't alone:
One Australian professor of obstetric medicine, Barry Walters, believes the survival of the planet requires stringent controls on the number of children parents can have. He argues:
"Anthropogenic greenhouse gases constitute the largest source of pollution, with by far the greatest contribution from humans in the developed world. Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing, but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society. What then should we do as environmentally responsible medical practitioners? We should point out the consequences to all who fail to see them, including, if necessary, the ministers for health. Far from showering financial booty on new mothers and thereby rewarding greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour, a 'Baby Levy' in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the 'polluter pays' principle."
We have reached the point where obstetricians regard babies as something bad that should be discouraged through punitive taxation. A more advanced stage of depravity would be inconceivable. Now it only remains for liberals to follow their psychotic ideology to its logical conclusion and apply it. Then there won't be any more nasty humans to oppress the poor polar bears.
Nazis, communists, and Muslims may seem to have strived for pure, satanic evil, but only liberal environmentalists have attained it.

On a tip from Beef.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 29, 2008 9:56 AM
Comments
Where are these moonbats when we are at the range? sure would be fun to blast at some moving targets.
Posted by: Stephana at July 29, 2008 10:10 AM
So I guess it's time for us to literally drink the Kool Aid and die, eh? I mean, why stop at discouraging people from having children? Why not go all the way and recommend the elderly, disabled, and sick be killed?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2008 10:10 AM
I just posted a link to the British piece in another topic. Van, you're quick!
Enviro-kooks like this believe that human life has no meaning, and that all we do while we are alive is pillage the planet of its resources. So what, then, are those resources for if they are not to be used? Why do we have the capacity to figure out what to do with them, and to find new uses for things that were previously thought to be useless? What will the planet do with them? Nothing! The planet will do nothing with them because it can't! "Greenies" treat the planet as if it is a sentient being. The planet is a complex and diverse ecosystem capable of supporting life. Know what that means, dummies? That's us! WE'RE LIFE!
It is certainly a bad thing to be wasteful and to poison the environment, not because it is a "sin against Gaia," but because it spoils the quality of life. More concretely, in our society things have costs involved. Waste means you are spending more of your own finite resources for other possibly finite resources you didn't really need. That doesn't mean we need to be paranoid about everything we do because we don't want to "deplete the planet." The planet has no other purpose that we can see other than to support us! We should encourage conservation, and renewable fuels, and all of that, but not having children? Seriously?
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at July 29, 2008 10:24 AM
Anon,
That's where state-run medical services come into the equation. Anybody heard about the destitute guy with probable terminal cancer out in Oregon? The Oregon Health Plan is offering to pay for his suicide, but not treatment. This isn't the first time either:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12857
This is what we can count on when our time comes if the left gets its way. Necessary treatment will be rationed due to cost and suicide will be subsidized. Logan's Run, here we come!
Posted by: forest at July 29, 2008 10:29 AM
Moonbat: "But we've got to discourage reproduction. It's for the children!"
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 29, 2008 10:33 AM
That explains why a nurse in Airstrip One who gave an abortion to a woman who didn't want one only received a "caution.".
Posted by: V the K at July 29, 2008 10:34 AM
So if we cut down on having children, whose paychecks will our governments be able to raid for all of the social services they are promising us in return for letting them play god?
Posted by: Pam at July 29, 2008 10:52 AM
Listen, I'm as conservative as they come and in my mid-fifties. I remember when there were something like 3 billion people on earth. In some ways, having a smaller global population would be a good thing. Easier on resources, less crowding in cities, etc.
The PROBLEM is: not everyone is onboard with that idea. You only get better educated, higher income people thinking having a few less kids is a good idea (I'm talking "fewer" kids, not these morons that won't have any because "it hurts the planet"). The less educated, third-world types (and some religious groups who shall remain nameless but whose initials start with ISLAM) go full bore with as many kids as possible. The results are what you see in places as diverse as Los Angeles and Brussels. A shrinking (mostly) white population and a burgeoning "ethnic" group.
What to do? EVERYone go full bore having ten kids? At some point, the numbers won't work. You cannot infinitely increase the population. You also can't have forced population control like in China. You can't depend on people being reasonable and saying "let's stabilize the worlds population at...", esp. when big numbers mean taking over a country (as in L.A. Reconquista, baby.)
I'm not sure what will happen, but I'm fairly sure it won't be pleasant no matter how it goes down.
Posted by: matt at July 29, 2008 11:10 AM
Matt, the answer is to encourage native born Americans to have as many children as possible. For every American child that's aborted, you can bet an illegal immigrant will take its place.
They're just trying to decrease the native population (primarily white) so that third worlders will move in and attach themselves to the welfare state, thereby securing future Democrat voters.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 29, 2008 12:41 PM
Anon, I see your point, but the bottom line is what we can do? There is zero benefit to (I'll call it the "educated population") reduce their reproductive habits if third-worlders are going to breed like rabbits.
On the other hand, we can't all get into a "let's have as many kids as humanly possible to preserve the race" game either.
Governmental restrictions are scary, totalitarian and don't really work (see China). Abortions (no matter what your view of them) are not the way to go, and certainly a lousy method of "birth control".
So what do we do? How do we stop a take-over of (in my case) the SW United States by attrition? I don't have a good answer. I CAN tell you that the uneducated hispanic masses coming in here could give a monkey's about "Global Warming" or "pollution" or "over population".
Posted by: matt at July 29, 2008 1:25 PM
When I tell folks I have four kids they ask "Oh my God, why?" I say it's to keep up with illegal immigration. You should see their faces.
Posted by: mivvis at July 29, 2008 2:16 PM
Bet these doctors ain't black.
SIGH.
Posted by: rosie at July 29, 2008 3:43 PM
Its just like in the MATRIX when the white Agent Smith was torturing the black man Morpheus calling humans a VVVVVVVVVIRUSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.... Im suprised the NAACP didnt express outrage.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 30, 2008 6:42 AM
I will take these so-called doctors seriously only after they voluntarily return their personal carbon to the earth.
chsw
Posted by: chsw at July 30, 2008 7:21 AM

