The Time- Poverty

Third World population controls won't save climate, study claims

David Bebber responds in his article to the proposition of the environmentalist Sir David Attenborough to restrain population in all nations. According to a study, the contribution of the poor countries to climate change is little and at the same time a dangerous distraction from the main problem of over-consumption in rich nations. The idea is a strict birth control to reduce greenhouse gas emission. It has been proved, that poor countries have low emissions so it is not beneficial to keep spending billions of pounds to the third world countries for contraception. The problem are not the poor countries, they do not need a birth control in compare to the western countries who overproduce nearly all goods and may have to high levels of consumption. A prove for this is China: the one-child rule had resulted a sharp decline in population growth but its CO2 emissions had risen rapidly. The reason for this is the amount of Chinese enjoying Western levels of consumption. An additional study shows that 7% of the worlds population are the rich people, counting half a billion. Those half a billion of people, might only be 7% of the worlds economy, though they produce 50% of the worlds emissions.
This clearly shows that the western countries should not blame things on uneducated countries, they should take care and realize what they problems are and what an grave impact they can have.