Fewer Kids, More Abortions, Better Environment

London School of Economics: Fewer Kids, More Abortions, Better Environment

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 9, 2009

London, England (LifeNews.com) — A new analysis from the London School of Economics is targeting people who have children as being responsible for destroying the environment. With a population control agenda in mind, its analysis draws the conclusion that fewer children and more abortions means a better environment.

Although the report, entitled Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, focuses on “family planning” and contraception, the idea is that fewer children born means the environment will be better off.

Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust at the LSE, is one of the school officials behind the report.

His research indicates contraception is five times cheaper than conventional green technologies in reducing global CO2 emissions. LSE estimates that, for every $4 (UK) spent on contraception and family planning resulting in a reduction of emissions by one ton equals the same reduction as $19 (UK) spent on green technologies.

Martin says 34 gigatons (billion tons) of CO2 would be saved if nations did more to push population control by promoting contraception and abortion.

“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,” Martin complained in comments to the London Telegraph.

He points to UN data suggesting that aggressive population control could reduce unintended births by 72 percent.

However, other research shows nations are experiencing a birth dearth that is causing a host of social and economic problems.

“Worldwide, birthrates have declined by 50% in the past half-century,” the film Demographic Winter notes. “There are now 59 nations, with 44% of the world’s population, with below replacement birthrates.”

A birthrate of 2.1 is needed to replace current population, but the European Union has a birthrate of just 1.3. By 2030, Europe is expected to have a shortfall of 20 million workers.

Barry McLerran, the producer of the film, previously told LifeNews.com that it “shows what happens when countries comprising 80% of the world’s economy have plummeting numbers of workers, consumers and innovators – leading to falling consumer spending, and too few workers to support the elderly.”

Meanwhile, in Russia, where abortion has been used for decades as a method of birth control, the nation is expected to lose one- third of its current population by 2050.

Related web sites:
Demographic Winter – http://www.demographicwinter.org

HERE ARE THE OPT RECOMMENDATIONS:
OPT recommends that climate change negotiators:
a) Recognize that population restraint is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the solution of the problems caused by climate change;
b) Accept the need for all countries to adopt non-coercive population policies;
c) Accept programs to implement such policies in poorer countries as legitimate candidates for climate change funding;
d) Give immediate priority to meeting the existing unmet demand for family reproductive health care in the poorest countries;
e) recognize that programs educating and empowering women to control their own fertility are also essential for the success of population restraint programmes;
f) Take account of the major humanitarian benefit of lower fertility in relieving the suffering of many of the poorest women and children in the world.
And also:
That the principle of “contraction and convergence” (rich and poor converging towards a common per person emissions target) be accepted as an equitable starting point for distributing total tolerable carbon emissions, provided that this is allocated to states on the basis of their population size at a specific date. This would encourage the adoption of population restraint policies; whereas allocation on a simple per person criterion would encourage continued population growth, thus continuously reducing every person’s carbon entitlement.

Population Control = abortion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also read this blog for information on Obama’s Science CZar and his population control agenda.