Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/09/2009 7:21:00 PM PDT by traumer
Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics.
Every £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of £19 would have to be spent on low-carbon technologies to achieve the same result, the research says.
The report, Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, concludes that family planning should be seen as one of the primary methods of emissions reduction. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended.
If these basic family planning needs were met, 34 gigatons (billion tonnes) of CO2 would be saved – equivalent to nearly 6 times the annual emissions of the US and almost 60 times the UK’s annual total.
Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust at the LSE, said: “It’s always been obviously that total emissions depend on the number of emitters as well as their individual emissions – the carbon tonnage can’t shoot down as we want, while the population keeps shooting up.”
UN data suggests that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 2050 by half a billion to 8.64 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Poor Perfidious Albion!
First they didn’t see the financial basics and now they can’t understand Gorbull Warming, either.
London School of Economics... more like school of morons.
ROTFLOL
Sounds like a good way for liberals to save the planet. I’d even support taxpayer funded condoms as long as any accidental liberal pregnancies actually result in a baby being born and put up for adoption by a family that actually wants a child.
We knew it had to come down to this.
just think no people
The next generations will be grappling with the euthanasia of 40 year olds.
Why is it that none of these environmentalists promote stopping immigration to protect the environment of their own countries?
How about unassisted suicide. Every greeny could contribute.
How do you filter sterilants out of the water or food? Anyone? I mean Cass Sunstein and John Holdren will probably get the nominations...
This is a world wide communist governance through ‘green’ they are trying to instill.
“reduce unintended births” ... that means abortion, which means women are targetted, not men.
It’s telling that they did not say “unintended conceptions” ... because that would mean that MEN would have to participate in reducing population.
The UN is the most sexist body in existence.
I’ve been waiting for this, pretty soon the whole world will have a one child policy with forced abortions.
Too bad they didn’t hand a gross or two of industrial strength condums to Stanley Ann Dunham back in the day.
One five cent condom could have saved the US from sinking into socialism and prevented a multi-trillion dollar economic collapse.
Every £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades(!?)..... according to research by the London School of Economics.
Hell, we're still grappling with previous generations.
Yeah, get the Muslims to sign up first.
The British natives are not close to self-reproductive ratios, and are heading toward extinction while the only population growing like Mexico City in the U.K. are the Sharia Ghettos, colonies of the Calaphate dream-time on walk-about.
The Suicide of the West continues, and we're rushing to catch up.
How long, O Lord?
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