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28 Feb 2008 10:07 pm
Children vs Happiness
Ron Bailey goes there. Matt dissents. Jonah Lehrer thinks it depends on what you mean by happy. But children are definitely not green:
Your net carbon impact depends far more on the number of children you will have than any other variable; remember good environmentalism uses a zero rate of discount. So people with no biological children should be allowed to fly a lot and people with lots of biological children should not get to fly so much at all.
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