This article written by Jeff Cox was very disturbing. I cannot believe that these two people actually believe that having more children can cause global warming. Read on:
Stopping overpopulation is one way the dangers of climate change can be
mitigated, according to two of the most prominent believers in global
warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that contraception is a key in controlling the proliferation of unusual weather they say is endangering the world.
"Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering
women and making fertility management ubiquitously available ... is
crucial to the future shape of human civilization," said Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on global warming....
[Gore also] made a pitch for birth control as a way to reduce excess
population that generates pollution, which in turn creates unusual
weather events.
"If you get the health improved, if you get the
availability of contraceptives, then families will voluntarily choose
to have less children," Gates said.
Both men spoke as the U.S.
East Coast battles a brutally cold, snowy winter—while the weather at
Davos, Switzerland, actually has been warmer than usual.
Read more at: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101361600
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