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...Cutting Carbon Emissions: Idea No. 52 The biggest way to reduce carbon emissions wasn't listed [April 9]: don't have more than two children. Although the impact is very high, the feel-good factor is very low. Overpopulation is the biggest factor contributing to greenhouse gases, but nobody likes to point it out. How much carbon can one person generate in a lifetime? Quite a lot - especially if you're American. If we don't voluntarily reduce our population now, nature will do it for us, whether we like it or not. Adam Kim, REDMOND, WASHINGTON...
...Saturday had more to celebrate than spring’s first dosage of balmy weather: Over the past year, Al Gore ’69 had won an Academy Award for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Governor Schwarzenegger had put regulatory teeth behind carbon controls, and the Supreme Court had scolded the Environmental Protection Agency for its indifference to carbon emissions. The wall of obstructionism that has long faced climate change activists has begun to crumble, or at least crack...
...many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives—and, hopefully, lead to lower carbon emissions...
...unlikely to agree over the next step. The current boom in clean energy investment will only be sustained if the price of oil remains high. Cellulosic ethanol, produced from trees and shrubs, promises energy yield ratios of 16, but requires extensive research into cheaper enzymes. A full-scale carbon tax would help, but hawks reject such action as quite rash. At most, they might support a gasoline tax as a way of weaning America off Saudi crude...
...biggest way to reduce carbon emissions wasn't listed: don't have more than two children. Although the impact is very high, the feel-good factor is very low. Overpopulation is the biggest factor contributing to greenhouse gases, but nobody likes to point it out. How much carbon can one person generate in a lifetime? Quite a lot-especially if you're American. If we don't voluntarily reduce our population now, nature will do it for us, whether we like it or not. Adam Kim, Redmond, Washington...