one percent of any group is going to be unbalanced

Yikes. To me, that reads like you managed to interview a gaggle of Chinese where only 1% was _sane_ ! That doesn’t speak very well to their [absent] understanding of liberty.

Jeez.

It turns out that the Chinese were really thinking ahead back in 1979 when they implemented their one child policy. After all, imagine what their carbon emissions would be today if they hadn’t:The number of births avoided equals the entire popul…

China’s one-child is second only to it acceptance of capitalism as why China may be a positive for the future. Have any of the opponents of China’s stopped for one second to think of the environment in China? How much environmental devastation is permissible for fetal idolatry?

I have to talked to well over a hundred Chinese in America–where presumably they have freedom of speech–and all but one were in favor of the one-child policy. Admittedly, the one opposed was rather fervent, insanely fervent, but one percent of any group is going to be unbalanced.

thuja on August 31, 2007 at 1:17 AM

Sure. Hey, if its so great, why don’t we implement it here? The feminists would love to kick those breeders where it hurts, they could even offer a spaying program for their political opposition. After all, why should anyone else have kids that will eventually vote and undermine them when big government allows them to slaughter any family who doesn’t take their “enlightened” willfully barren path.

While we’re at it, why don’t we bring back Sparta’s policy of throwing born children off cliffs or the Roman Policy of leaving them out in the wilderness for the wolves to eat. Those would be “progressive.”

But I suppose 1.3 billion people can’t be wrong.

I have to talked to well over a hundred Chinese in America–where presumably they have freedom of speech–and all but one were in favor of the one-child policy. Admittedly, the one opposed was rather fervent, insanely fervent, but one percent of any group is going to be unbalanced.

JiangxiDad

amerpundit

My nieces are from Hunan, and I have lived in China for 4 years now (2 of those in Hunan). Congratulations both of you.

Well, hooray for women’s liberation, or whatever.

China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States…

Am I the only one who thinks most of these births were not simply avoided?

I won’t be surprised if the pro-abortion group picks up on China’s logic as a way to bolster their cause.

Since the loony left is so concerned about the environment shouldn’t they be concerned about the effects of all that smug in the air in San Francisco?

I wonder, does this verrrry compelling “population = warming” logic implicate any major U.S. policy debates? Hmmm.

I was thinking abortion. Planned Parenthood is keeping our carbon down…

JiangxiDad and AmeriPundit. God bless you for adopting those little girls from China, you are true lifesavers!

At the time I said that the Chinese women have freedom of choice. Either walk to a clinic for a forced abortion or be transported by the state.

I think China’s OCPC policy has less to do with controlling population growth and more to do with creating female textile workers that never need a pre-natal break.

Exit question: Where are all those Chinese males going to go when they’re looking for a bride?

U.S. fuel efficiency policies designed to reduce American car sizes should help us reduce “car born emissions” also.

Less time than that I think, and it will be a hot war. Terrorism is no threat at all compared to China.

Maxx on August 30, 2007 at 4:22 PM

IMO, yes and no. The Chinese don’t want to die. Terrorist do. Just like with the USSR, there’d be assured mutual destruction. The economies rely on each other, so it would really erase many of their gains.

I say about 30 years until a “Cold War” with China.

Nonfactor on August 30, 2007 at 4:17 PM

Less time than that I think, and it will be a hot war. Terrorism is no threat at all compared to China.

JiangxiDad on August 30, 2007 at 4:20 PM

Thought so. Our little one’s from Hunan.

exterminating your female babies is ecologically sound.

But, then again, don’t drowned, female babies, in Chinese lakes and rivers, constitute their own kind of pollution? Now I’m all mixed-up.

:O(

where my kids were born.