> "Women with
> access to reproductive health services ... have lower
> fertility rates
> that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas
> emissions."While the UNFPA acknowledged it had
> no actual
> evidence of a connection between population increase and
> climate change,
> the report insists there is no doubt that "people
> cause climate
> change" through CO2 emissions. "The
> linkages between
> population and climate change are in most cases complex and
> indirect." Nevertheless, the report said, "As the
> growth of
> population, economies and consumption outpaces the
> Earth's capacity
> to adjust, climate change could become much more extreme
> and conceivably
> catastrophic."Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the
> UNFPA's executive
> director, told a news conference in London that although
> the largest
> amount of CO2 emissions do not come from the developing
> world, the
> organisation would continue to focus its population control
> efforts
> there, saying that women and the poor will be the worst hit
> in the
> coming climatological disasters. "Our impending
> climate
> disaster is perhaps the most inequitable threats of our
> time," the
> UNFPA's Richard Kollodge told journalists.But
> not everyone is
> as convinced. A Times poll released last week showed that
> less than half
> the UK's population believes human activity is
> responsible for
> climate change. The Times says that only 41 per cent
> accept as a
> scientific fact that global warming is taking place and is
> largely
> man-made. 32 per cent believe the link is unproven and 8
> per cent said
> it is anti-human environmentalist propaganda. 15 per cent
> said they do
> not believe the world is warming.In the run-up to
> the Copenhagen
> climate change summit set for next month, others are
> offering
> suggestions that do not involve artificial population
> control. The head
> of the US Forest Service, Tom Tidwell, pointed out that
> trees consume
> carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. Tidwell told a
> Senate panel on
> Wednesday that his agency is trying to manage forests to
> combat climate
> change and that politicians might want to consider the
> benefits of
> planting more trees. "It is time to manage the
> nation's
> forests to address climate change and unlock their
> potential," said
> Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the panel's
> chairman.
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