Sen. Mike Lee says we can solve climate change with more babies. Science says otherwise.
Washington Post
March 26, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. EDT
At least one GOP senator believes that to fight climate change, all you need is love.
During floor debate ahead of a vote on the Green New Deal, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told his colleagues that if they really want to address environmental concerns they’ll encourage people to couple off and have more babies.
“Climate change . . . is a challenge of creativity, ingenuity and technological invention,” Lee said. “And problems of human imagination are not solved by more laws, but by more humans. More people mean bigger markets for innovation. More babies mean more forward-looking adults — the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.”
This recommendation, to add more people to the planet, doesn’t track with science or reason. A 2017 research article determined that one way an individual could contribute to eliminating greenhouse gases is to have one fewer child.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-says-we-can-solve-climate-change-with-more-babies-science-says-otherwise/2019/03/26/67f91b2e-4fed-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html
The same Mike Lee is asking whether the Biden administration be guided by a prejudice against fossil fuel, or will it be guided by science?
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