Parents should pay climate change tax on extra kids: expert
专家称: 多出生婴儿父母应付气候改变税
Parents who have more than two children should be charged a lifelong climate change tax to offset the effect of their extra greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian medical expert has proposed.
澳大利亚的专家建议:已有两个孩子的父母应交终生气候变化税,去弥补他们额外温室气体排放的结果
They should pay 5,000 dollars (4,400 US) a head for each extra child and up to 800 dollars every year thereafter, according to the plan published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
根据澳大利亚医刊发布的计划,这些父母每多生一个孩子第一年应付5000元(4400美金),其后每年800元.
In contrast, contraceptives and sterilization procedures would be eligible for carbon credits, suggested Professor Barry Walters at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth.
相反,在佩斯的the King Edward Memorial医院的教授Barry Walters 建议: 采取避孕和绝育程序的父母有资格获得"碳信用"奖
"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being," he wrote.
他在提案中写道：“‘超生’家庭都应缴纳‘二氧化碳税’，所征的税将用于植树造林，以消除新增人口所排放的二氧化碳带来的危害。”
Walters made his proposal in a letter in which he criticized the government's payment of a 4,000 dollar "baby bonus" in a bid to boost the birth rate in this sparsely-populated country of 21 million people.
澳大利亚仅有2100万人口，为了提高出生率，政府出台了一项“婴儿奖金”计划。该计划规定，每个新生婴儿可获得4000澳元的奖励。而沃尔特斯则在一封倡议书中批评了政府的这一举措。
Paying parents extra for every baby fuelled more emissions and contributed to global warming, he said, adding that the bonus should be replaced with a "baby levy" in line with the "polluter pays" principle.
他说，这一计划加剧了温室气体的排放和全球变暖。他还建议，应按照“污染者付费”的原则，将这一津贴改为“婴儿税”。
Vocabulary: And Professor Garry Egger, director of the New South Wales Centre for Health Promotion and Research, agreed.
新南威尔士健康促进与研究中心的主任、盖里•艾格教授对这一观点表示同意。
"Population remains crucial to all environmental considerations," he said. "The debate (around population control) needs to be reopened as part of a second ecological revolution."
他说：“人口仍是各?6环境问题的关键因素。作为第二轮生物进化的一部分，有关人口控制的辩论应重新展开。”
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