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Have just two children to help cut CO2
Sophie Goodchild, Health Editor25 Jul 2008
Couples were today urged to have no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising world population.
Doctors said with greenhouse gas emissions increasing, having a large family could be as damaging as driving a 4x4 or owning a patio heater.
Writing in the British Medical Journal the team, including John Guillebaud of University College London, said universal access to contraception was needed.
The article cites research by the Optimum Population Trust which said each birth in Britain will be responsible for 160 times more greenhouse gas emissions than a birth in Ethiopia.
It said: "By providing information and appropriate contraception, doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics."
Family planning did not have to be coercive, as in China, the team added.
Reader views (1)
Who are these idiots that come out with this? The planet mars is suffering global warming and man has not influenced that is any way. Stop cutting down so may trees, allow them to deal with carbon the way they always have. The planets are going through a natural change and there is nothing man can do to change this. Man needs to adapt to the changes like he always has done.
- Roy, Essex, 25/07/2008 17:39
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