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Bigger Families the New Status Symbol. But can you really haul them without a Hummer?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ted Turner recently made the collective tongues start wagging when he said, “Global warming could lead to cannibalism.”
The famous Turner, who has 5 children of his own, recently told Charlie Rose one way to combat global warming was to stabilize the population. I guess that’s fine for the little people, but for those in the world with the means to transport them in huge gas guzzling tanks and the means to feed all those extra mouths the rules just don’t apply.
“Too many people are using too much stuff” says Turner. Who could disagree with that? There are too many people using too much stuff. But, who is using too much stuff really?
I’d be happy to go toe to toe with Turner. I’ll give up one of my private jets for every one he will give up. Heck I’ll even give up three of my children if he gives up three of his. As you can probably tell…I only have 2 kids. Back in the 70’s I decided to go with that whole zero population growth idea. You know the one that would be good for the planet…Ted opted out on that notion back then. It’s always nice to see that people can change their position; even if it is ‘after the fact’.
The Department of Agriculture estimates that each American child costs an average of 204,060 to raise until the age of 18. They must be estimating how much it costs to raise one of Turner’s kids, or Britney Spear’s kids. For the average Joe, that figure is as meaningless as me saying I’ll give up one of my private jets…In whose world?
“In a world where the young rich use their $13,000.00 Birkin bags as diaper bags…” Are you kidding me? What is a Birkin Bag?
According to Ted Turner, just feeding these kids is going to be a challenge when global warming finally takes over. Ted says, in 30 or 40 years “basically none of the crops will grow”. “Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”
Heads up Ted…if the ‘rest of us’ stop having kids..there won’t be anything for your progeny to eat. You might want to start rethinking your position ‘again’.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau the median income in the U.S. was $48,201.00. We have people like Turner to thank for pushing up those numbers. America loves to ‘rank on a curve’. The bottom 20% of households earned less than $23,202.00.
The top 6.37% roughly earned 1/3 of all the income…Well done.
Maybe 6.37% of the people need to stop “using too much stuff”.
Labels: Birkin Bag, Global Warming, Ted Turner
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Bigger Families the New Status Symbol. But can you really haul them without a Hummer?
