Nice comeback...

Another bright idea from the self-loathing humanistic sector:

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...

Australian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said it was ridiculous to blame babies for global warming.

"I think self-important professors with silly ideas should have to pay carbon tax for all the hot air they create," she said. "There's masses of evidence to say that child-rich families have much lower resource consumption per head than other styles of households.

Yeah, you don't see too many large families jet-setting off to global warming conferences or zooming around in fiberglass cigarette boats. Maybe all that extra disposable income could be taxed in lieu of a child tax -- they'd miss it less!