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Speaker 1: Actual op ed headline from NBC News. Science proves kids

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Speaker 1: are bad for Earth, morality suggests we stop having them.

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Speaker 1: The author is Travis Reader. Says having kids is a

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Speaker 1: big contributor to climate change. Having a child, he says,

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Speaker 1: imposes high emissions on the world while the parents get

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Speaker 1: the benefit. So, like with any high cost luxury, we

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Speaker 1: should limit our indulgence. He says, it's only logical for

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Speaker 1: everyone on Earth to consider having fewer children. The view

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Speaker 1: that's spreading in the academic community. Now this clown isn't

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Speaker 1: some underperforming salesman planned parenthood. He holds a pH d.

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Speaker 1: He is the director of the Bioethics degree program at

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Speaker 1: Johns Hopkins. Doctor Reader explains it of having one fewer

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Speaker 1: kid can reduce your contribution to the harm from climate change,

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Speaker 1: then you are making a morally relevant choice. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: think we should shame parents, but since we face the

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Speaker 1: very real prospect of catastrophic climate change, difficult and even

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable conversations are important. Dr Reader, here's another difficult conversation.

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Speaker 1: If science supposedly proves that kids are bad for the earth,

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Speaker 1: by the same token, science must also prove that adults

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Speaker 1: like you are even worse. So, if you're really serious

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Speaker 1: about saving the earth, have you ever thought about, like

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Speaker 1: ten stories could do it.