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I think the moral issue raised by the developing countries at Copenhagen is valid.  How can a nation like India, that has nealy half of its population without electricity, cut its greenhouse gas output at the expense of keeping its citizens in poverty?  The subsequent question however is: how can the earth stand to have 6 billion people at a western standard of living?  It can't.  So what can we do? Well discontinue the current practice of paying people to have children.  Since reproductive freedom ( the right to procreate) is protected by the U.S. Constitution the only real way we can change public policy is to change the tax structure.  Instead of each child giving the parent a tax break, the first child should create a tax deductiuon.  The second child (parental replacement) would cancel out the tax deduction and each subsequent child would increase the taxes to pay for the resources the family uses. We all need to realize however that such a decrease in population will change the social structure of society.  Unlike the usual pyramid shape of society, the pyramid will be turned upside down and it will mean that eventually there will be fewer people to fund the current entitlement programs such as social security.  Note Japan and other developed countries are paying parents to have children to avoid this eventuallity.  What we need to realize is that we have been part of a true population pyramid scheme where earlier generations depend on younger generations to pay the debts they incurred.  This will eventually have to stop or we will be choking on the exhaust of an ever greater population until we all collapse.      Childlessby choice

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