Comments on: Eat Less Meat to Tackle Climate Change http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2008/09/09/eat-less-meat-to-tackle-climate-change/ Topical information for researchers, policy advisers and the public who are interested in the interaction between ecology and public policy. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:06:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben R http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2008/09/09/eat-less-meat-to-tackle-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Ben R Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:10:00 +0000 http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2008/09/09/eat-less-meat-to-tackle-climate-change/#comment-43 Cutting down on meat is one issue, but Boris Johnson raises a fair point about overpopulation. The UN should be supporting family planning and making contraception more readily available. Consider Africa, the average women has 5 children and the population is set to double to 1.5 or even 2 billion by 2050. That will result in even greater poverty than they currently experience.<br/><br/>Without contraception women particularly are condemned to a life of poverty. Cutting down on meat is one issue, but Boris Johnson raises a fair point about overpopulation. The UN should be supporting family planning and making contraception more readily available. Consider Africa, the average women has 5 children and the population is set to double to 1.5 or even 2 billion by 2050. That will result in even greater poverty than they currently experience.

Without contraception women particularly are condemned to a life of poverty.

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