Cheapest Way to Cut C02 Emissions? Contraception
40% of global pregnancies are unintended.
The single biggest determining factor in human's emissions of greenhouse gasses is population size.
a+b=contraception is the cheapest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades.
The study, done at the London School of Economics agrees with a WHO report set to come out in November that rampant overpopulation is what is destroying this planet. Thus the solution to the GHG problem, in a brilliantly oblique way, is to reduce the population expansion.
Of course, this is not really politically feasible. Could you imagine Obama trying to get up and explain to the American people that his solution to global warming is nationalizing Trojan Condoms and shipping them by the container ship to Asia and Africa?
Sadly, what is lost in politics is the ability to brilliantly out-think the problems of the world, the only solutions that are acceptable are the solutions which can be easily explained to the lowest common denominator individual. One can only hope that the need to reduce the population expansion gains some global traction and the US does eventually throw some weight behind it.
I have to say again though, I love how everyone is going on about cap-and-trade, geo-engineering and giant wind turbines and the simplest solution? Contraception for the developing world.
The single biggest determining factor in human's emissions of greenhouse gasses is population size.
a+b=contraception is the cheapest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades.
The study, done at the London School of Economics agrees with a WHO report set to come out in November that rampant overpopulation is what is destroying this planet. Thus the solution to the GHG problem, in a brilliantly oblique way, is to reduce the population expansion.
Of course, this is not really politically feasible. Could you imagine Obama trying to get up and explain to the American people that his solution to global warming is nationalizing Trojan Condoms and shipping them by the container ship to Asia and Africa?
Sadly, what is lost in politics is the ability to brilliantly out-think the problems of the world, the only solutions that are acceptable are the solutions which can be easily explained to the lowest common denominator individual. One can only hope that the need to reduce the population expansion gains some global traction and the US does eventually throw some weight behind it.
I have to say again though, I love how everyone is going on about cap-and-trade, geo-engineering and giant wind turbines and the simplest solution? Contraception for the developing world.
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