Centret för biologisk mångfald i USA delar ut kondomer med bilder på hotade djurarter och kopplar då hotet mot djurarter och klimatförändring med barnafödande.

Från artikeln i new york times:
"Yet, virtually alone, the Center for Biological Diversity is breaking the taboo by directly tying population growth to environmental problems through efforts like giving away condoms in colorful packages depicting endangered animals. The idea is to start a debate about how overpopulation crowds out species and hastens climate change — just when the world is welcoming Baby No. 7 Billion."

"A study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed how slowing the country’s population growth rate to 1.5 births per woman from 2.0 could result in a 10 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury and a 33 percent drop by the end of the century."

"The study, which also calculated the impact of a birth beyond the child’s lifetime “should the offspring reproduce,” said that each American child generated seven times as much carbon dioxide over time as one child in China, and 169 times as much as one in Bangladesh. Reducing car travel, recycling and making homes more energy efficient would have a fraction of the impact on emissions that reducing the birth rate would, it found."

"Reducerande av bilåkande,återvinning och att göra hemmen mer energieffektiva skulle ha en liten påverkan på utsläppen jämfört med med vad reducering av födslotal skulle, fann studien."

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