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Posted on 09/18/2009 7:05:28 AM PDT by mombyprofession
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.
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eugenics to the rescue!!!
Just a reminder: 0bama had a 100% rating from the ‘Zero Population’ freaks when he was a Senator for those few minutes way back when. ;)
Geesh! I can only imagine millions of condoms cluttering the areas... And, they don’t distruct, that is, in the wasy ecologists would like...
Only if its retroactive birth-control of the brain-dead adherents to global warming.
In other words, gays are good for the Earth.
heh - now that is racist ( birth control to poor )
Someone beat me to it, but I’ll say it anyway: liberals can go first.
“Geesh! I can only imagine millions of condoms cluttering the areas... And, they don’t distruct, that is, in the wasy ecologists would like...”
The moonbats will make them out of paper...
Why not just have a nuclear war to save the planet from all these evil human beings????
Hmmm. What other chemicals can we we environmentalists ban that will 'help out'?
I put a condom over my tail pipe. Will that help?
It was widely predicted and only a matter of time before the AGW zealots started preaching eugenics.
Looks like the intersecting advocacies of euthanasia, eugenics, and infanticide is already upon us.
Wouldn’t bullets be more cost effective, you godless cockroaches?
Why don’t we just poison their water - that’ll fix non-existant climate change goo!
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It is the reason they stopped using DDT for malaria control.
It is the reason they promote behavior that spreads AIDS.
It is the reason they restrict effective energy development capable of transforming those cultures in a positive way.
This reveals the whole “dirt good, people bad” mentality of the whacko-environmental left.
They invent a crisis and then declare population control is the only answer....well...along with shutting down industry and capitalism.
The only birth control I’ll ever use is old age. Screw ‘em.
I guess it depends on what you were going to do with your tail pipe, doesn't it?
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At least the National Enquirer gets a real story once in a while, but the Lancet is the journal that told the world that the Coalition had killed 655000 civilians in Iraq.
Sex-Changing Chemicals In Municipal Wastewater Devastate Wild Fish Populations
Sure, because screwing with your reproductive system is so pure, so natural! Why, just look at all the thousands and thousands of other animals that use birth control! /sarc
Malthus, version 3.0
There’s always suicide. They could lead by example.
Wow.
What great research.
Contraception produces less people.
I couldda told em this for about a dollar.
Commissars in America.
Thanks Communist O.
Muslms are breeding fastest. Let’s start with them!
I wonder how they will react?
I’m all for birth control - for the muzzies.
I’d be happy if they just became monogomous and only had families with 5 or 6 children, instead of 4 wives and 54 children, like Bin Laden.
And with the ratio of male/female at about 50/50, what do you think is the destiny for those roughtly 3 out of 4 moslem men who will never have wives?
JIHAD!
SHADEED!
That is why they are taught at such an early age to kill and be killed.
Well said.
> SHADEED!
Should be “SHAHEED!”
Cheers!
>>> That is why they are taught at such an early age to kill and be killed. <<<<
Yep, good observation. Hadn’t thought of it before.
Life is cheap when your chances for marriage and procreation are well under 50 percent.
You don’t understand. The plan is for the non-Muslims to be forbidden to reproduce.
I love how they always refer to “experts.”
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"by slowing population growth, experts said Friday."
If it's so important to them, as hysterical as they get over global warming,
why would they stop with voluntary birth control?
Tetanus Vaccines, Spontaneous Abortions, and Population Control
Research shows that 78.996% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
And vegetarian homosexuals are a “god-send”.
/sarc tag really needed?
They aren't, that's why they are instituting death panels to deal with those who managed to escape contraception and the abortionist's knife.
Ha ha ha! They could use cheese cloth; it lasts longer...
“Ha ha ha! They could use cheese cloth; it lasts longer...”
Wouldn’t they strain themselves?
You are either funny as heck this morning, or I'm desperate for a laugh. Either way, another zinger!
“You are either funny as heck this morning, or I’m desperate for a laugh. Either way, another zinger!”
Well, if you ARE desperate for a laugh...hope you had a good one...we can use it these days.
“...an emerging debate and interest about the links between population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate change,”
That’s it......proof positive via scientific method is reduced to public polling and emerging interest.
There can be no further debate on this issue, OR ELSE!!!
Militant
I’ve been listening to that song a lot lately.
When my husband went to a country that was getting all those free condoms he said he saw them using the condoms to carry water!
Why are these people so obsessed with other people having children and killing babies? It’s downright disturbing.
This is nothing short of genocide disguised as charity.
Maybe our gloal masta wannabes should just put birth control in the water supplies as suggest by Obamai’s czar. Maybe we should have some hangin’s.
Me, too!
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