Birth control could help combat climate change? WHAT?!?!

Birth control could help combat climate change

Fri Sep 18, 9:29 am ET

LONDON – Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.

More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don't have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.

If those women had access to free condoms or other birth control methods, that could slow rates of population growth, possibly easing the pressure on the environment, the editors say.

"There is now an emerging debate and interest about the links between population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate change," the commentary says.

In countries with access to condoms and other contraceptives, average family sizes tend to fall significantly within a generation. Until recently, many U.S.-funded health programs did not pay for or encourage condom use in poor countries, even to fight diseases such as AIDS.

The world's population is projected to jump to 9 billion by 2050, with more than 90 percent of that growth coming from developing countries.

It's not the first time lifestyle issues have been tied to the battle against global warming. Climate change experts have previously recommended that people cut their meat intake to slow global warming by reducing the numbers of animals using the world's resources.

The Lancet editorial cited a British report which says family planning is five times cheaper than usual technologies used to fight climate change. According to the report, each $7 spent on basic family planning would slash global carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1 ton.

Experts believe that while normal population growth is unlikely to significantly increase global warming that overpopulation in developing countries could lead to increased demand for food and shelter, which could jeopardize the environment as it struggles with global warming.

WOW! That's all I am going to say. Environmentalists...a conservative Christian's worst nightmare...lol.
The Duggar family...an environmentalist's worst nightmare...lol.
Just havin' some fun there. :-)

So let me get this straight, these folks in London say by pumping women in under developed countries full of birth control that's going to make the environment all of a sudden better?

Why just the women? How come they won't sterilize the men then if they want to do that? It takes a sperm and an egg to make a baby, not just an egg.

It almost seems like a mass genocide amongst women and children in those lands.

Omitting children from the picture will not stop global warming, hurricanes, tsunami's, floods, earthquakes, droughts, mudslides, etc.

The weather and the climate are controlled by Someone a bit more powerful then us mere humans.

Something else this article brings to mind is that the under developed countries are in desperate need of help.

Where is America, Europe, Asia, etc or the man power to help these poverty stricken countries?
The wealthier countries can afford to send a few hundred thousand dollars and some men over to build roads, homes, clinics, schools, clean water systems, etc to better help their fellow man out.
If America can afford to dish out billions of dollars for a swine flu vaccine, the Iraq war, the health car reform, etc, then it surely can give a bit to better help a city or town in another country who is in need.
Has our nation become so selfish and greedy? It's all about us, right? Let some other country handle the poverty, right?

Sigh...