Population Pollution and Climate Change

A recent study conducted by the London School of Economics says that in order to reduce pollution and control the changes in the climate, we need not look further at environmental resources to do this. We only have to look amongst us. Our ability to reproduce and procreate millions of babies every year is said to be a deterrent. The study says, we need to think of birth controls such as condoms, differently now for this may be the best tool we have at our disposal to fight climate change.

“There is no possibility of drastically reducing total carbon emissions, while at the same time paying no attention whatever to the drastic increase in the number of carbon emitters,” said Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, a British nonprofit that sponsored the report and whose goal is to rein in population growth in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. “For reasons of an irrational taboo on the subject, [family planning] has never made it onto the agenda, and this is extremely damaging to the planet.”

In another study, it has been concluded that for each baby born in the United States, equal to about 1,644 tons of carbon dioxide. Countries like China and other tropical areas equal to about less but the point is, there must be some truth to the study made by the London School of Economics, regardless of how unpopular this may seem for now. While the study makes a lot of sense, personally, it’s the implication and suggestion about birth control (condoms) that doesn’t seem to sit well with other people.

“People always consider the financial costs, and they consider the time cost,” said Paul Murtaugh, one of the Oregon State researchers, who said that he does not have children but that he is open to the idea despite his research. “We’re just attempting to put on the table the ballpark estimate of the environmental cost.”

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