Global warming: Suffer the little children

For much of the past week, the media have been treating us to endless stories about Roe v. Wade, generally told from the pro-abortion view. It’s striking how often abortion backers resort to the line about how government has no right to “touch” a woman’s body and “force” her to allow a child to live.

But as soon as the issue becomes global warming, these same liberals have no qualms about wanting to control your right to reproduce, via various population-control schemes.

One such scheme was proposed recently in the Medical Journal of Australia in a letter from Barry NJ Walters, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetric Medicine and all-around scary person. He proposes charging a $5,000 tax on the birth of every child, money to be used to plant trees to “offset” the youngling’s carbon footprint.

But it wouldn’t stop there. Walters would also have an annual $400-$800 tax for the life of the child. (He doesn’t discuss what he would like to see happen should the parents neglect to pay this secular jizyah*, but one might guess.)

Quoting David Attenborough, who said, “Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, we should control the population to ensure the survival of the environment,” Walters explains that he believes doctors must put the environment before their patients.

Thankfully, Sydney’s Cardinal George Pell, who is in danger of becoming a hero of mine, spoke up against the fascist proposals of Dr. Walters and his supporters:

“I am not sure what is more extraordinary, that an obstetrician could hold such a view or that a leading medical journal could publish such a view, but either way, this is a striking illustration of where a minority neo-pagan, anti-human mentality wants to take us,” Cardinal Pell was quoted as saying by Christian Today.

“We have been subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us,” Pell added.

It’s disheartening to see other Christian leaders who go along with the global warming hysteria, failing to recognize it for what it is: a religion. Most religions have a plan for returning the world to what might be called a state of grace. Global warming’s plan is unusual in that humans are not participants in that salvation.

People believe many strange things in this world, and I can’t help but wonder what would lead anyone to think that the elimination of humans from the planet is a good thing.

We need more leaders like Cardinal Pell to guide us out of the advancing night of the Algorites.

* The tax prescribed by Sura 9:29 of the Quran, to be paid by Christians and Jews living in Muslim-ruled lands.