Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au

Here is a real nut! This sounds like a good way to punish the poor and downtrodden of the world. If this happens, not that I think it will, then only the rich and elites will have babies. Will this guy sterilize himself and his kids to pave the way and give us a good example to follow?

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au: "A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus 'baby levy' at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime. Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and 'greenhouse-friendly' services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits."