Contraception and Climate Change

Quite possibly the most contemptible, bizarre story I've ever come across, from The Telegraph (not The Onion, as one might think):

'Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change'

Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics.

Every £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of £19 would have to be spent on low-carbon technologies to achieve the same result, the research says.

The report, Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, concludes that family planning should be seen as one of the primary methods of emissions reduction. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended.

Talk about self-loathing... whittling down humanity based on the findings of junk science. And it is totally junk science. The degree to which Europeans, experts in the science of self-loathing, lap up this global warming claptrap is astounding and pathetic. At least here in the states, there remain holdouts of sanity.