Women bear brunt of 'climate change'?

Women bear brunt of 'climate change'?
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 11/24/2009 7:00:00 AM
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A United Nations group that promotes abortion has released some controversial recommendations concerning "global warming."

According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), birth control and access to family-planning facilities can be a valuable weapon in the fight against supposed "climate change." The UNFPA sites overpopulation as one of the factors in the earth's "capacity to adjust" to climate change.

In an article published on GMANews.tv, a representative from the Philippines notes that climate change could affect women the worst, as women in that country might be driven into the sex trade as climate change reduces income from farming and fishing. The Fund uses this scenario to justify its call for the distribution of birth control and its call to slow population growth.

James Taylor, a senior fellow and environment policy expert with The Heartland Institute, labels the UNFPA's recommendations "preposterous."

"Even if we were facing a global-warming [crisis], the problem wouldn't be so much that we have too many people -- the problem would be...that we need to utilize our energy in a more efficient manner," he explains.

Improved energy efficiency, he continues, "can certainly be done without encouraging people to get abortions or to have infanticide like they do in China or to seek to limit human population. Human beings are a tremendous resource -- and [they] are not the problem on the planet."

Taylor contends the U.N. Population Fund is trying to link its radical agenda to alleged climate change only to gain support from environmentalists and to use the elite liberal media to get their message across. The Fund, however, admits that it is hard to link the two issues.