UN Kooks: Use More Condoms, Save the Planet

These people are just relentless with their banal obsession with non-existent climate change, global warming or whatever they're calling it these days. In the latest installment of idiocy, today something called the UN Population Fund chimes in with the brilliant observation that if we just had free condoms then the planet will be saved from a non-existent threat. Or something like that. Of course they don't say who'll pay for all these "free" condoms, so just assume it'll be you, the taxpaying suckers.

The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

The agency did not recommend countries set limits on how many children people should have, but said: "Women with access to reproductive health services ... have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions."

"As the growth of population, economies and consumption outpaces the Earth's capacity to adjust, climate change could become much more extreme and conceivably catastrophic," the report said.

The world's population will likely rise from the current 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion in 2050, with most of the growth in less developed regions, according to a 2006 report by the United Nations.

The U.N. Population Fund acknowledged it had no proof of the effect that population control would have on climate change. "The linkages between population and climate change are in most cases complex and indirect," the report said.

It also said that while there is no doubt that "people cause climate change," the developing world has been responsible for a much smaller share of world's greenhouse gas emissions than developed countries.

Of course the assertion that "people cause climate change" is nonsense and a hoax played on the gullible, but let's play along.

You see, if we don't listen to the UN, we're all doomed!

Still, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the U.N. Population Fund's executive director, told a news conference in London on Wednesday that global warming could be catastrophic for people in poor countries, particularly women.

"We have now reached a point where humanity is approaching the brink of disaster," she said.

According to the wackjobs we've been on the brink of disaster for decades yet nothing ever happens. At some point when these "disasters" do not come to fruition will the media ever challenge their cockamamie assertions that have been proven wrong every time?