Addie Davis
Sept. 18, 2009
10:32 am
SOC 202
It’s simple - preventing unwanted pregnancies, especially in the developing world, reduces the demand for increasingly scarce and energy-intensive resources like food, water, and shelter. A postgraduate student at the London School of Economics named Thomas Wire has come to a conclusion that if present trends continue, the planet will have 338 billion “people-years” lived between 2020 and 2050. But if contraception were available to every woman who wanted it, unwanted pregnancies would be averted that the number of people-years would fall to 326 billion. This reduction of 12 billion people-years would save 34 gigatons of carbon dioxide that would otherwise cost at least $220 billion to produce. Therefore, each $7 invested in contraception would buy more than one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. “It is time for the sexual and reproductive health community to use the climate change agenda to gain the traction women’s health deserves,” according to Lancet.
I think that it is about time that women in developing countries had the right to choose rather to have children or not. It should always be up to the woman and her decision should not be judged or shunned. Our population continues to grow and without adequate contraception, women in poorer countries will be forced to raise children on a low-income because they’re not able to work in factories and other industrial businesses.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/can-condoms-combat-climate-change.html
Sept. 18, 2009
10:32 am
SOC 202
It’s simple - preventing unwanted pregnancies, especially in the developing world, reduces the demand for increasingly scarce and energy-intensive resources like food, water, and shelter. A postgraduate student at the London School of Economics named Thomas Wire has come to a conclusion that if present trends continue, the planet will have 338 billion “people-years” lived between 2020 and 2050. But if contraception were available to every woman who wanted it, unwanted pregnancies would be averted that the number of people-years would fall to 326 billion. This reduction of 12 billion people-years would save 34 gigatons of carbon dioxide that would otherwise cost at least $220 billion to produce. Therefore, each $7 invested in contraception would buy more than one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. “It is time for the sexual and reproductive health community to use the climate change agenda to gain the traction women’s health deserves,” according to Lancet.
I think that it is about time that women in developing countries had the right to choose rather to have children or not. It should always be up to the woman and her decision should not be judged or shunned. Our population continues to grow and without adequate contraception, women in poorer countries will be forced to raise children on a low-income because they’re not able to work in factories and other industrial businesses.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/can-condoms-combat-climate-change.html
2 comments:
I agree with this article, having contraception would help a lot with the worlds population. I think that it is important for people and women to be able to choose if they would want a child or not and if people aren't ready for a child and have one by accident, it could be bad for their future and the future of their child.
I agree with this article as well. The ability to choose whether or to have a kid should always be up to the woman. People who aren't ready to have kids shouldn't have em, and contraception would help with this problem as well as population
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