Get yourself sterilized and win a free car | Grist

India has a massive and worsening overpopulation problem -- the country has added 181 million people in the last 10 years. So health officials in the state of Rajasthan are trying to lure people into voluntary sterilization by taking advantage of one of humankind's biggest weaknesses: expensive sh*t. In a three-month program that they hope will attract 30,000 eager non-breeders, officials are offering cars, motorcycles, televisions, cash, and other incentives for people to put their junk under the knife.
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In a min-maxy kind of way, the car thing makes some sense. Sure, you have more motor vehicles on the road right away (there's actually only one car and five motorcycles on offer right now, donated by a local charitable trust). But you're potentially preventing the carbon emissions of an exponential number of future car drivers.

Global Warming as a Substitute Religion | The American Catholic

One of the more pernicious follies of our time is the mixing of politics, science and religion. The Global Warming scam is a prime example of what a noxious brew can result from this. Among many of the elites in Western society, environmentalism has taken on all the aspects of a religion. The religious left has been eager to climb on to this new religion. Based upon very dubious science, and fired with the faith that has traditionally been given to religion, powerful forces throughout the West are eager to implement revolutionary changes in our society, most involving a radical expansion of government control over industry.

Australia - Transcript of [Julia Gillard] interview with Chris Uhlmann, 7.30, 11 July 2011

HOST: But doesn't it just look then like income redistribution dressed up as a carbon tax?