In yet another bit of anti-human news, Reuters is reporting the comments of a leading researcher at the World Health Organization:
Contraception advice is crucial to poor countries’ battle with climate change, and policy makers are failing their people if they continue to shy away from the issue, a leading family planning expert said on Friday.Leo Bryant, a lead researcher on a World Health Organisation study on population growth and climate change, said the stigma attached to birth control in both developing and developed countries was hindering vital progress.
“We are certainly not advocating that governments should start telling people how many children they can have,” said Bryant, an advocacy manager at the family planning group Marie Stopes International, who wrote a commentary in the Lancet medical journal on Friday.
“The ability to choose your family size…is a fundamental human right. But lack of access to family planning means millions of people in developing countries don’t have that right,” he told Reuters.
Although the report goes on to mentions the WHO’s projections for worldwide human population at 9 billion in 2050, it does not mention current data showing many countries already falling below their “replacement rate” needed to sustain populations, nor does it mention that the WHO also anticipates a decline in worldwide human population following its peak of 9 billion.
Having fewer and fewer children is just part of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.
