{"id":241454,"date":"2017-07-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=241454"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:30:58","slug":"sustainability-professor-to-stop-climate-change-stop-having-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/20\/sustainability-professor-to-stop-climate-change-stop-having-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Professor: To Stop Climate Change, Stop Having Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Grab audio sound bites number 20 and 21. Classic illustration. Major point made on the program yesterday. And particularly I think a valid point if you\u2019re trying to convince Millennials of something. Let me restate it a slightly different way. As we know, Millennials are frustrated economically. They come out of college, they have student loan debt that is oppressive. They\u2019re looking at maybe not being able to pay it back for a long, long time, many of them still have to live at home with mom and dad. Why? The job market is still not there because economic growth is still not there.<\/p>\n

The Trump economic growth agenda, like the rest of it, has been stonewalled. The tax cuts and the Obamacare repeal and replace are a major, major part of reigniting the economy. We know what\u2019s going on with Obamacare. There simply is no desire to do anything about it that will redound to success for Trump. That\u2019s key. Tax cuts. Nobody\u2019s talking about it. I mean, they\u2019re talking about it, but there isn\u2019t any serious movement on it. There isn\u2019t any serious movement in Congress on advancing the Trump agenda whatsoever.<\/p>\n

So economic growth is still stagnating, and in the case of Millennials and the next generation, Generation Z, in many of their lives that\u2019s all they\u2019ve known. They have not lived through 4%, 5% economic growth. They have not lived through economic expansion. They grew up in the era of 9\/11. They grew up with Obama and the Democrats regularly criticizing America, blaming America, suggesting that America\u2019s salad days are behind us. This is what they\u2019ve grown up hearing. And they\u2019ve grown up being taught this, by the way.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019ve been taught that in America\u2019s past, when there was great economic growth, it really wasn\u2019t deserved. That we were slighting other countries, we were stealing their resources or oppressing them or trying to impose our way of life or something that made what we were immoral and illegitimate. The point is they have never known leaders, up until Trump, who are traditional people that love America. They have not known leaders who sufficiently define patriotism and exhibit it and exude it. They\u2019ve known just the opposite.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve also grown up — and this is key — they\u2019ve grown up being told that the planet will not be able to provide life by the time they\u2019re 60 or 65. Do not downplay this. They\u2019ve grown up watching cartoons and watching superhero movies and every other movie and TV show, teachers in school, they\u2019ve been drumbeat with the idea of climate change that\u2019s caused by America. Climate change caused by progress. Climate change caused by the expanding use of fossil fuels, expanding use of oil and gas, natural gas, all of these things are destroying the planet.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what? Saving the planet, to Millennials and Generation Z types, is a big deal. Not all of them, of course, but many of them have really bought into the idea that the planet is being destroyed by America and other countries, but primarily America, and our selfish, profligate use of carbon-oriented energy that is destroying by creating the greenhouse effect. We\u2019re melting the ice caps and sea levels are rising and coastal areas are going to disappear. It is a miserable life. It is a life not filled with childhood dreams and aspirations and uplifting optimism. All that\u2019s been beaten out of them.<\/p>\n

Now, they graduate from college \u2019cause that\u2019s also been told the one way out that they have. So they\u2019ve all bought into that, and they bought into the student loan program. They have massive student loan debts. They can\u2019t find jobs yet with sufficient income to help starting pay off the debt. And then they\u2019re — this is the piece de resistance. They have to end up opposing economic growth because the way they\u2019ve been taught, economic growth is what\u2019s destroying the planet. Progress. The increasing use of fossil fuels. All of these things that lead to economic growth, they cannot support.<\/p>\n

Environmentalism, the devotion to extreme environmentalism requires you to believe in slow or nonexistent economic growth, because economic growth, an expanding economy, more people working, more economic activity is destroying the climate. Now, if you\u2019re over 40, you might think that just sounds utterly ridiculous. And it is. But that\u2019s what they have been taught. They have been browbeat with this. It\u2019s not just been presented as an option. They have been inculcated. They have been propagandized. They have been indoctrinated with this. And I want to show you how it manifests itself.<\/p>\n

\"\"We have two sound bites here from yesterday\u2019s NPR program called Morning Edition<\/a>. The cohost is guy named Steve Inskeep, and he spoke with a sustainability professor. What have I told you about Millennials and sustainability? When you were in college, could you take a course in sustainability? Was there a sustainability department? Could you get tenure there? Was there a sustainability professor? I mean, it didn\u2019t exist, right?<\/p>\n

Well, here we are at Lund University in Sweden. That\u2019s the guest. Kimberly Nicholas is her name. Sustainability professor Kimberly Nicholas, and Inskeep was asking her about her recent study on the best ways to reduce our carbon footprint to save the planet. Our carbon footprint gets bigger with economic growth, with economic activity.<\/p>\n

Millennials are caught in a trap. They cannot support economic growth because it\u2019ll conflict with their environmental views. And at the same time, by not supporting economic growth, they are consigning themselves to economic mediocrity with massive student loans they\u2019ll never be able to repay.<\/p>\n

So how do we solve the problem is the question? I want you to listen to this. Are you paying attention? How do we solve the problem? Professor Kimberly Nicholas, sustainability professor at Lund University, the NPR host says, “What could make the biggest difference here?”<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS: The single biggest impact that we found was from having a child. The reason for that is because that measure accounts for all the choices that that child would make in their life and their descendants.<\/p>\n

INSKEEP: What did you think and feel when you reached that conclusion?<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS: Certainly it\u2019s not my place as a scientist to dictate choices for other people, but it is my place to do the analysis and report it fairly. Something really important we found is that most government recommendations weren\u2019t really talking about what made the biggest difference, and they weren\u2019t quantifying how big of a difference it made.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, we did not do anything to the tape. We didn\u2019t speed it up; we didn\u2019t substitute voices. That\u2019s how she really sounds, folks, exactly as I imitate them. That\u2019s exactly how they sound. (imitating Nicholas) “The single biggest impact that we found was from having a child.” You know what she\u2019s saying here? The best thing you can do to stop climate change, the best thing you can do is to stop having babies!<\/p>\n

What does it mean? She is saying that human beings present the greatest challenge to saving the planet. This is insane! And I\u2019m gonna tell you, those of you who have not been around long enough, way back in the eighties and early nineties the militant environmentalists back then got this crusade going, that human beings were the greatest problem to the environment. Human beings were the biggest polluters. Human beings were the greatest destroyers of the environment and of the planet.<\/p>\n

\"\"And all the way back 25 years ago, militant environmentalists — and we laughed at \u2019em then, and we said, “Nobody\u2019s gonna buy this. These people are so wacko and extreme, nobody\u2019s gonna buy this.” And now look, we have a professor of sustainability at a university in Sweden who\u2019s actually saying, “The single biggest impact we found was from having a child. The reason for that is because that measure accounts for all the choices.”<\/p>\n

In other words, you have a kid and your kid\u2019s gonna do stupid things like eat Big Macs and other forms of meat. Your kid is gonna drive a car. Your kid is gonna do all the things destroying the planet. Millennials have been roped into this. Culturally with peer pressure, they have to believe this stuff or they\u2019re gonna be shunned by their buddies. Damn these communists are smart, folks. They wanted to destroy the U.S. economy, and look at how they\u2019ve done it. They\u2019ve equated economic growth and economic progress, economic prosperity, the improvement in one\u2019s standard of living with destroying the planet!<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve succeeded in corrupting how many young people\u2019s minds with this, that economic advancement — improved standard of living has been the human being objective since Adam and Eve. Providing for your family, making a better life for them than you had. That\u2019s been the objective. It\u2019s human nature to improve one\u2019s standard of living. That\u2019s why innovation and invention have created the things that have increased productivity.<\/p>\n

Look at air-conditioning. Look at a simple thing like that, what it has meant for economic growth. But how is it portrayed today? Why, it\u2019s destroying the planet, don\u2019t you know. All that Freon and other gas, it\u2019s aerosol cans and ozone layer, and it\u2019s been a never-ending cacophony. And now young kids are crusaders for this. So they have essentially doomed themselves. And now we have a sustainability professor who\u2019s telling them that the biggest threat that we have is having a child. The worst thing you can do for the planet is have child.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, you cannot believe in God and hold that belief. You simply can\u2019t. I don\u2019t care what God. You can\u2019t believe in God and believe that God\u2019s greatest creation destroys God\u2019s greatest creation. You just can\u2019t believe that. But they do. There\u2019s one more bite here. You notice the NPR host, “Uh, what did you think and feel when you reached that conclusion?”<\/p>\n

“Well, it\u2019s certainly not my place as a scientist to dictate choices.” Bull. Damn right that\u2019s what do. You do dictate choices for people. It\u2019s exactly what sustainability professors do. Anyway, Inskeep was so mesmerized, he didn\u2019t even interrupt with another question, and the babe just kept going.<\/p>\n

INSKEEP: May I ask you a personal question?<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS: You may.<\/p>\n

\"\"INSKEEP: Do you have kids?<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS: I don\u2019t. It\u2019s a choice I\u2019m thinking about right now and discussing with my fiance.<\/p>\n

INSKEEP: Oh, congratulations. You\u2019re getting married. That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS: Thank you. It is great news, and he is wonderful. And of course having a child is one of the most personal decisions people can make. There are many, many factors that go into it. For us, because we care so much about climate change, it is a factor we\u2019re considering, but it\u2019s not the only one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you imagine? This woman is probably engaged to some Pajama Boy that might have not won the audition for one of Obama\u2019s TV ads on sustainability. She\u2019s engaged. She\u2019s engaged. She\u2019s trying to decide whether to have children because of climate change! She deciding. Why even get married? What\u2019s her name here? Kimberly. Kimberly, why get married? What is the point if you\u2019re not gonna have kids? I know some people do it, but to actually be sitting here pondering whether or not she\u2019s going to have kids because of the carbon footprint of the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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