Climate Control

David Farrar has produced this lovely piece of satire:

“The Green Party today released a further policy on how New Zealand can make a goal of a 40% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 and 80% by 2050.

““We realised our previous policy of de-stocking dairy herds was not going to be enough. Yes Cows fart and belch more methane than humans, but they don’t travel in cars and use heaters” said the Green Party.

“New Zealanders emit 7.4 metric tons of carbon emissions per capita. The more New Zealanders we have, the more emissions we have. Hence the solution is to have less New Zealanders”

“We have decided abortion is the best way to reduce the number of New Zealanders, as this is preferable to euthanasia. In 2007 the abortion rate was only 22.2% of pregnancies. If we can triple that to 67%, that will mean 37,000 less New Zealanders every year.”

I was amused until I remembered the controversy about the Green’s population policy. Exactly what do they mean by ecological carrying capacity and how will “Informed decisions about family size and spacing” be “made by the parents concerned”? I wonder just how far David’s satire is from reality…

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