Steyn: "Children? Not if you love the planet!"

Mark Steyn, in his most recent column, brilliantly unmasks a growing and very disturbing movement among the extreme radical environmentalists. It's been an underlying philosophy throughout the ages, but has manifested itself in our post modernistic world in the eugenics, pro-abortion and zero-population growth movements to name a few.

In today's climate (of desperation, it seems), no one is mincing words or hiding behind so-called pragmatic programs to improve the quality of life for human kind. The focus now is on poor old "mother earth" who has had to put up the "abuse" of the most hated civilization which has ever existed; the capitalistic, liberty based Western Civilization. (That misplaced hate originates from the radical left, as Dennis Prager states in a recent column, The World Doesn't Hate America, the Left Does, but I digress.)

Steyn waxes wittily in Children? Not if you love the planet! . Here are a couple of the money paragraphs:

But here's something new that took hold in the year 2007: A radical antihumanism, long present just below the surface, bobbed up and became explicit and respectable. In Britain, the Optimum Population Trust said that "the biggest cause of climate change is climate changers – in other words, human beings," and professor John Guillebaud called on Britons to voluntarily reduce the number of children they have.

Last week, in the Medical Journal of Australia, Barry Walters went further: To hell with this wimp-o pantywaist "voluntary" child-reduction. Professor Walters wants a "carbon tax" on babies, with, conversely, "carbon credits" for those who undergo sterilization procedures. So that'd be great news for the female eco-activists recently profiled in London's Daily Mail who boast about how they'd had their tubes tied and babies aborted in order to save the planet. "Every person who is born," says Toni Vernelli, "produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases and adds to the problem of overpopulation." We are the pollution, and sterilization is the solution. The best way to bequeath a more sustainable environment to our children is not to have any.

What's the "pro-choice" line? "Every child should be wanted"? Not anymore. The progressive position has subtly evolved: Every child should be unwanted.

Be sure to read the rest of his column. It's an important piece that needs your attention.

Last week I referenced this diabolical "anti-human" movement in a piece titled: If We Could Just Get Rid of Those Pesky People! Be sure to check it out.