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Doctors: Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'
Rebecca Smith
London
Telegraph
Friday, July 25, 2008
The world's population increases by 1.5m each week and babies
born in the UK will use more greenhouse gases during their lifetime
than those born in the developing world.
Two doctors, writing in the British Medical Journal, suggest
that doctors should talk to their patients about climate change
and encourage them to think about the consequences of having a
big family.
Investing in contraception would help in the fight against climate
change, they argue.
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John Guillebaud, emeritus professor of family planning and reproductive
health, at University College London and GP Dr Pip Hayes, from
Exeter wrote: "Unplanned pregnancy, especially in teenagers,
is a problem for the planet, as well as the individual concerned.
"But what about planned pregnancies? Should we now explain
to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children,
or at least having one less child than first intended, is the
simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a
habitable planet for our grandchildren?
"We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information
on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception
for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help to
bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous
to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars."
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