From yesterday's Telegraph comes yet another story about anti-natal academicians who want to solve environmental problems by reducing the number of people who...doggone 'em...are messing things up in the first place.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 London School of Economics, 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.”...
Roger Martin must take tea with Paul Ehrlich, Jonathan Porritt, John Holdren and other bureaucrats who not only disdain the evidence for the demographic winter on the horizon but actually are working to hurry the day of catastrophe.
Here are a few previous Vital Signs Blog posts relevant to the matter. (For those of you in school who are looking for a provocative topic for your next term paper or debate, have at it!)
* Team Obama's Scary Science Fiction Guru
* Hey; Where Did Everybody Go?
* Another "Green" Politician Calls for Population Reduction (The Population In Question Always Being the Other Guy)
* The Simplest Way to Eliminate Carbon Footprints? Eliminate Feet.
* New Stats Show Europe's "Demographic Winter" On the Near Horizon
* How Big Is Your Water Footprint? -- The Latest "Step " in Green Guilt.
* Leading Economists Suggest Putting People First, Not Global Warming. MSM Buries the Story.
