Blame it on the kids

Children are the cause of climate change. Yup.... that's what the UN tells us in their latest report. The Copenhagen summit is not just about climate change, it is about reducing the population of the world. An Australian scientist let slip recently that prominent on the Copenhagen agenda would be a discussion on population control.

......The latest report from the United Nations Population Fund was released on Wednesday at news conferences in Ottawa and other key venues where policy makers could be made aware of the news: more babies will undermine attempts to stop climate change.

Strangely, much of the news conference, like the material put out by the Population Fund, was taken up with detailing the ways the world's leading population control agency works to combat maternal deaths and serious complications from childbirth, both admirable goals. Yet the crux of the report is that, while we need to save those who do give birth, we need fewer of them. In the eyes of the UNFPA, it is the babies of maternity wards present and future that are the culprits in climate change: "Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants." ...............