A CLIMAX FOR THE CLIMATE
The world needs innovative ideas on how to bring both high-emitting and low-emitting countries to an agreement that can reduce gas-emissions. Here is a good one.
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has an anti-catholic idea: safe-sex (in its technocratic terms it refers to "environmentally sustainable population dynamics" & "population control").
The statement is as follows: "There are strong linkages and correlation between population growth and emission of greenhouse gases that cause climate change, and ... communities experiencing high population growth are also most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, such as water scarcity, failed crops, rise in sea level, and the spread of infectious diseases.".
Obviously, one of the leading and self-depressing idea of the UNFPA's report is that humans' activities pollute per se its biotope.
We know now how to limit intrinsic cow's emissions (a new garlic-based feed additive cuts the methane gas produced by the animals in half); let us hope the same requirement will not be applied to our threaten species, though we all agree to say that garlic is lovely.
But in the meantime, the UNFPA's message is clear-cut and i.a. shares Claude Lévi-Strauss' views: the current growth of the world population is unbearable.
Quotes: "Greenhouse gases would not be accumulating so hazardously had the number of earth's inhabitants not increased so rapidly "; "The importance of the speed and magnitude of recent population growth in boosting future greenhouse-gas emissions is well recognized among scientists, including the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports. Slower population growth in both developed and developing countries may help ease the task of bringing global emissions into balance with the atmosphere in the long run and enabling more immediate adaptation to change already under way."
It is not sure the news will be correctly reported to the interested parties in newspapers and in the coverage of Copenhagen's summit (" The connection between population growth and the accumulation of greenhouse gases has barely featured in the scientific and diplomatic discussions so far.").
Lévi-Strauss' views in his time already upseted UNESCO's civil-servants regarding the harmful impact of demographic inflation.
Nevertheless it is worth shouting at it with the United-Nations' blessing: "Go, go, go ahead: coitus interuptus, sodomy, pill, intrauterine device, condom fight against climate-change. Let us climax for the climate.".
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