It’s oblivion again, say partiers at a tropical resort. AP reports that the UN wants nations to ban greenhouse gas emissions to the tune of “between 25 percent and 40 percent by 2020″:

The human race faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming…U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on the resort island of Bali to preside over the final days of the two-week conference. “The situation is so desperately serious that any delay could push us past the tipping point, beyond which the ecological, financial and human costs would increase dramatically,” Ban said in a speech to delegates. “We are at a crossroad,” he added. “One path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other to oblivion. The choice is clear.”

“Oblivion.” Got to avoid oblivion of course. What to ban next? Maybe caffeine? Or maybe go all the way and attempt to ban new humans. Medical Journal of Australia:

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.

There would appear to be more than a little Margaret Sanger in all this:

“the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation….On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

Of course the West appears to have gone well beyond that point in our time.

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