Are condoms and birth control pills more cost-effective than windmills and solar panels as tools to curb global warming?
Yes, and by a wide margin, contends Thomas Wire, a post-graduate researcher at the London School of Economics and author of a recent study asserting that family planning is nearly five times more cost-effective in mitigating global warming emissions than green energy technologies such as wind and solar power.
“It’s always been obvious that total emissions depend on the number of emitters as well as their individual emissions –- the carbon tonnage can’t shoot down, as we want, while the population keeps shooting up,” Roger Martin, chair of the Optimum Population Trust, the British environmental think tank which sponsored the study, said in a statement. “The taboo on mentioning this fact has made the whole climate change debate so far somewhat unreal.”
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