Birth control could help combat climate change

[ELVIS]

Seven days and eight years post 911

"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.

[Kristy]

1.

"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."

Fuck you, you bunch of sexist racist hippies

and...

2.

"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."

Oh, so it's the woman responsible for climate change according to this unfounded, researched stupid-as-shit sexist story, is it!?! In that case, why have condoms when you can depopulate a certain gender in its place? And as for this "emerging debate" who, exactly, are these emerging debaters? Horny males with small penises who want to drive their Hummers on private land? Hey, I have an idea - instead of condoms we just castrate 60% of the male population from birth? Why I'm sure the same of idiots who wrote this shit must also believe the testosterone is responsible for so much of the aggression in the world, right? And how is cutting down on meat intake supposed to help the planet when it takes just about as much carbon emissions to pull corn from the ground or vegetables from the vine?

Also

3. According to the report, each $7 spent on basic family planning would slash global carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1 ton.

People in developing counties populate because they suffer form a lack of proper education, dietary heath and environmental safety. Many don't have 1/1000th of penny to their name much less $7 to plan anything for the future. They fuck out of boredom as well as survival. Hardly a "lifestyle issue" when one considers the population growth in the poorest of the poor places on earth expounds out of necessity and not personal luxury. A true "lifestyle issue" is buying a lawnmower, a 2-stroke jet ski, outside bar-b-que with friends or burning wood to keep your sorry ass warm on cold winter nights which does have some founded scientific basis in climate change than a inefficient supply of condoms. As for condoms reducing the spread of AIDS (oh, and let's face it, this story is also cloaked in racism) in places such as Africa or the lower 1/3 of Asia is also a myth when you factor in the unsanitary conditions of these places; many recycle if you get my drift even to the point of using their own feces as fertilizer to grow food they can barely eat. Just how many of the estimated 9 billion will live past the age of 10?

Whenever I read shit like this draped in a veneer of lame unfounded scientific methods and sexist innuendoes it all comes down the haves and have nots with the haves feeling threatened by the latter.

[ELVIS]

You're mostly correct, except the innuendos are eugenicist in nature, not sexist...

[Seshmeister]

Surely it's not eugenics to reduce the birth rate in 3rd world countries to the same as ours asap.

It's obvious that if humans are increasing climate change then more humans will increase climate change more. Current projections are that India is going to overtake China in population in our lifetime.

Population seems to be stable or falling in richer countries but it seems to be a danger that if things keep going the way they are then then the 3rd world countries may never get to that point.

The catholic and various evangelical US churches have to take a lot of blame in this in Africa.

That said there are pricks here on the fringes who want to try and ban people having more than 1 kid even when we have a falling population with 1.4 kids or whatever for every couple and these people need to fuck off.

[ELVIS]

But would there not still be climate change even if humans never existed ??

[bueno bob]

But would there not still be climate change even if humans never existed ??

Certainly not on the level we have now.

Of course, humans DO exist and global warming IS happening, so that's kind of a ridiculous question to ask. I could similarly ask "What if Krypton was actually real?", but it's not going to give us Superman.

[Nitro Express]

Global warming is a natural cycle and this has been proven by drilling ice samples out of the huge Antartic ice pack that has existed for several hundred thousand years. By carbon dating the particles in the ice layers an interesting pattern emerges. The earth has had an ice age every 100,000 years and then warms up for the last 20,000 years of the cycle. We peak out before we slide back into another ice age for 80,000 years. The earth will still be here but most of us won't.

[Nitro Express]

Most of the world's environmental and eugenics none sense comes from the Rothchilds clan. Their head spokesman on the matter is David Rothchild while his daddy buys up crashed assets like Leman Brothers cheap. So yeah, it's the haves using fear to have more.

[Nitro Express]

Africa is a victim of the International Monetary Fund and The World Bank. Both are ran behind the scenes by the Rothchilds who have been in banking for over 200 years. They want the raw resources and the agriculture but they also want vast parts of it as wildlife refuges so they can go and enjoy it. As far as the native black people, they want to kill them off. Maybe keep a few to use as slaves to run the agriculture and work in the mines. Maybe have some tribes left for interests. As one of the Rothchilds said,"Men are machines and women are toys." They view us as cattle.

[GO-SPURS-GO]

As one of the Rothchilds said,"Men are machines and women are toys."

Sounds about right to me! j/k

[standin]

GsG,
Your avatar, what is the name of the painting and the artist who created it ?
I like it a lot, just wondering...

[ELVIS]

Certainly not on the level we have now.

Prove it...

[bueno bob]

Prove it...

Without humans, we'd have neither of these on the planet. I don't need to "prove" that...it's pretty obvious that the following two pictures would NOT exist here without us.





Motor vehicles are responsible for almost a quarter of annual US emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary global-warming gas. The US transportation sector emits more CO2 than all but three other countries' emissions from all sources combined. And motor vehicle emissions will continue to increase as more vehicles hit America's roads and the number of miles driven grows.

Three factors contribute to CO2 emissions from cars and trucks:

* Amount of fuel used
* Amount of CO2 released when a particular fuel is consumed
* Number of vehicle miles traveled

Combating global warming requires reducing all of these factors. This necessitates increased fuel efficiency, switching to renewable fuels, and less driving.

NRDC: Global Warming Basics

Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually.

Global Warming - U.S. Autos Account for Half of Global Warming Linked to Cars Worldwide

U.S. automobiles and light trucks are responsible for nearly half of all greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles globally, according to a new study by Environmental Defense.

The study, Global Warming on the Road [PDF], also found that the Big Three automakers—General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler—accounted for nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide released by cars and pickup trucks on U.S. roads in 2004, the latest year for which statistics were available.

“Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. automobiles will be critical to any strategy for slowing global warming,” said John DeCicco, author of the report and senior fellow at Environmental Defense, in a press release. “To address global warming, we’ll need a clear picture of what sources are contributing to the problem. This report details, by automaker and vehicle type, the greenhouse gas contributions from America's auto sector, for the first time.”

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There. Proof that global warming wouldn't exist on the (unnatural) level that we have now without human interference.

No humans = no coal burning = no auto emissions = LESS warming.

Very simple. Amazing that America is virtually the ONLY civilized country left on this planet that still has people arguing about that.

[Blackflag]

But the article isn't talking about the U.S. - it's talking about "developing countries." People are always trying to control populations in those damn "developing countries."

[Terry]

But the article isn't talking about the U.S. - it's talking about "developing countries." People are always trying to control populations in those damn "developing countries."

while simultaneously exploiting them.

What's gonna happen when all these developing countries become industrialized and embrace democracy?

Outlook not so good for America.

Ah, well. World is gonna end in 3 years anyway.