ATTENTION: If You Have ‘Extra Kids,’ Bill Nye Wants The Government To Come After You!

I know Bill Nye has been in the news a lot lately, but the man is Out. Of. Control. And he deserves to be called out on his crap.

Beyond producing videos that should probably be considered devices of torture under the Geneva Conventions, Nye has also decided that flirting with ideas bordering on eugenics would be a GREAT way to teach kids and adults about science!

(Well, at least Bill Nye’s cartoonish version of “science.” I don’t know how many actual scientists would agree with his nonsense. Then again, they’re too busy making world-changing discoveries to be bothered with making ridiculous TV shows.)

According to this, in the final episode of “Bill Nye Saves The World” (not pretentious at all), Nye talks to a “bioethics ethicist” (isn’t that saying the same thing twice?) named Travis Rieder. Rieder seems to think that there are so many people on the planet that we’re all squished in like a bunch of sardines and just one more baby is going to send humanity spiraling out into space because there’s just no room left!

(Clearly, neither Nye nor Rieder have ever been to certain areas of the American West. There are stretches out here were you could drive for HOURS and not see another human being. And, yes, some people do live quite comfortably out there. After all, it’s where I grew up.)

But because Bill Nye never leaves the insular urban bubble where people feel this strange need to live on top of each other, he totally thinks that the government (of course) should regulate how many kids people have. And if you have too many, you should be penalized for it. SAVE THE PLANET! For… our children?

Billy Nye: So, should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?

Travis Rieder: I do think that we should at least consider it.

Bill Nye: Well, “at least consider it” is like “Do it.”

Travis Rieder: One of the things that we could do that’s kind of least policy-ish is we could encourage our culture and our norms to change, right?

To which I ask – how many is too many kids? Who gets to decide who the “extra kids” are? And what business is it of Bill Nye’s how many children a couple decides to have?

This isn’t science. This is control and power over people’s lives. This is forcing others to do what you tell them to do for no other reason than you said so. When I hear some creepy weirdo trying to tell me how to live my life, I have an overwhelming desire to do whatever the exactly opposite of what they’re telling me to do.

(If I weren’t already expecting a baby and he wasn’t going to be here by the end of the summer, this would be motivation to start trying to get pregnant. Though as it is, I’m actually happy that I personally know six couples who are expecting babies and when all is said and done, there will be EIGHT total children in that group – there’s a set of triplets in there too. That’s probably Bill Nye’s worst nightmare!)

(And no – I’m not happy just because such a minor baby boom would tick off some fearmongering goofball in a bowtie and a costume lab coat. All of these events are genuinely happy in and of themselves. That’s one of the blessings of having children – having joy in your posterity. Which is something the perpetually joyless left has yet to figure out.)

And to further drive home how unscientific Bill Nye’s stupid proposal is, John Nolte has this to say –

The other truth that goes unmentioned is that developed countries like ours are much, much, much cleaner than human hellholes like Niger. Our water and air is cleaner. We use much better methods to dispose of our garbage and sewage. We preserve, recycle, and replenish our natural resources. For example, no one plants more trees than the private logging industry. America has more trees today than we did 100 years ago. Nothing produces a clean environment better than private ownership. You take care of what is yours.

Developed countries that allow for human freedom are not the problem, they are the solution. People are not the problem, they are a blessing and the very ones who invent, create, and come up with the ideas that have, overall, improved both living and environmental conditions throughout the world.

But science-denying monsters like Bill Nye would have us believe the opposite is true. Because it is not about the science. It is about the depraved power that comes with controlling the lives of others.

And just to drive home the point even further, I’d like to bring up this article from The Federalist written by Gavin McInnes (we’ve featured some of his videos in the past). The article as a whole is a rebuttal of the activist movement known as “Child Free” – meaning people who’ve chosen not to have kids (fair enough – that’s a personal decision), but they feel the need to shove their decision in your face every five minutes (can’t stop the virtue-signal!) There was one point that Gavin makes that applies beautifully here – on the subject of “overpopulation” –

6. The World Is Overpopulated
Er, I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a eugenics nut, but it’s about quality, not quantity. Yes, India has dead bodies floating down the river. Your local public school having yet another kid named Cody is not going to cause global warming.

These kinds of myths gain traction because of the death of math. We want to save all the kittens and rescue all the pups and kill all the babies, because we think there are a finite number of each. There are seven billion of us. Your gestures aren’t “thinking globally.” They’re not thinking at all. If you go on to the beach and wash one grain of sand, you’re not “doing your part.” You’re wasting your time. We live in the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous nation ever. If anyone should feel good about creating more people here, it’s you. And if you don’t, someone else will.

Here’s the deal: Just because an American couple decides not to have a child doesn’t mean that a handful of other people in underdeveloped countries won’t have a bunch of children. And it’s not going to make their lives any better if you refrain from procreating. If quality of life and/or overpopulation is your concern, wouldn’t you rather have a children be born here, where they’ll have all kinds of opportunities and benefits of living in a place that values human life? (And I haven’t even gotten into adoption, which is kind of its own topic.)

Like I said – the decision to have or not have children is a personal one. It’s up to individual couples if they want to have kids or even how many they’d like (and to take responsibility once those children have been created). But Bill Nye’s wish that the government penalize large families is not only not scientifically sound, it’s borderline dictatorial.

Which I’m pretty sure he’s going for in the first place.