I posted a story earlier today about shock jock radio host Rush Limbaugh suggest that NY Times reporter Andy Revkin should "kill himself."
Revkin has now responded. Here's an excerpt:
"I’d like to think that Rush Limbaugh [1] was floating a thought experiment, and not seriously proposing something, when he told millions of listeners [2] the following: “Mr. Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying.”
He had picked up on some commentary and reports [3] that have been bouncing around the instanet [4] ever since I spoke via Skype video at a symposium on media coverage of the population part of the climate and energy challenge [5], put on by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
I had talked, in part, about recent studies concluding that programs offering family planning information and services to women seeking smaller families, in essence, had a climate value by avoiding emissions [6] of greenhouse gases that would come with more kids. Here’s a Worldwatch Institute blog post [7] with some context. Here’s a different take from the National Catholic Reporter [8]."