Right, and which babies are going to have a larger carbon footprint? The ones with parents who can pay the tax or the ones with parents who cannot?

Western countries destroying the earth’s ability to sustain life is a product of the western consumer economy. There’s a reason that shifting the blame to individuals having kids is so popular with libs

Mmm, this ain’t the one, comrade. A tax paid for conception would only turn procreation to a privilege denied to the poor. Population reduction is not a good path forward, for obvious reasons.

The Soviet Union largely did away with individual taxes.