Bill Nye: Should Parents Be Penalized For Having ‘Extra Kids?’
Comedian Bill Nye suggested that saving the world from climate change might entail punishing people in developed countries for having too many children.
Nye asked one of the panelists on the Tuesday episode of his Netflix show “Bill Nye Saves The Earth” if it would be a good idea to have the government penalize having “extra kids.”
“Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” Nye asked Travis Rieder, an academic for Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.
“I do think we should at least consider it,” said Rieder, who believes that limiting the size of families is paramount to fighting global warming.
Bill Nye: Should Parents Be Penalized For Having ‘Extra Kids?’