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OPT: Save the Planet by Preventing African Births [Brendan O’Neill]

Posted on December 14, 2009 - 11:42am by

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Brendan O’Neill published this piece just over a week ago raising high concerns about the new program Pop Offsets. The program is part of the Optimum Population Trust--the organization who released the report championing birth control as the most effective way to curb climate change and carbon emissions. O'Neill puts it quite simply:

Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet

Posted on October 7, 2009 - 3:11pm by

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The Guardian published this article last week, finally, in response to the new study commissioned by Optimum Population Trust.

Amongst my favorite parts of the article is this sentence: "While there's a weak correlation between global warming and population growth, there's a strong correlation between global warming and wealth." Really, it's refreshing.

Read on here.

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