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De-Facto One Child Policy
Urged in Australia
Tamara McLean
AAP
Monday December 10, 2007
COUPLES who have more than two children should
be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring's carbon
dioxide emissions, a medical expert says.
The report in an Australian medical journal called for parents
to be charged $5000 a head for every child after their second,
and an annual tax of up to $800.
And couples who were sterilised would be eligible for carbon
credits under the controversial proposal.
Perth specialist Professor Barry Walters was heavily critical
of the $4000 baby bonus, saying that paying new parents extra
for every baby fuelled more children, more emissions and "greenhouse-unfriendly
behaviour".
Instead, it should be replaced with a "baby levy" in
the form of a carbon tax in line with the "polluter pays"
principle, he wrote in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
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"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number
of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the
planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by
a new human being," said Prof Walters, an obstetrician at
King Edward Memorial Hospital.
Sustainable Population Australia suggested a maximum of two,
he said.
By the same reasoning, contraceptives like diaphragms and condoms,
as well as sterilisation procedures, should attract carbon credits,
the specialist said.
Full
article here.
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