The Birth Control Blog

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I can’t believe it is Friday already, niiiice! Now, as you may or may not have noticed recently, there has been a lot of craziness in the news regarding the mandate that employers’ health care plans, under the 2010 Affordable Health Care Act (http://www.healthcare.gov/law/full/), include funding for birth control care for women. This aspect of the Health Care bill may not seem like it, but it could end up having a better impact for the environment than any of the other things the Obama administration has attempted.

You could argue that Obama’s selection of Lisa Jackson as a legitimate leader of the EPA (http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/administrator.html), or his blocking of the Keystone XL Pipeline, or his mandate for dramatic vehicle mileage improvements, or investments in alternative energy would have the greatest impact of all the things Obama has done to the environment (http://e360.yale.edu/feature/forum_assessing_obamas_record_on_the_environment/2427/), but I’m going to stick with the birth control mandate, here’s why, according to an Oregon State University study (http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/jul/family-planning-major-environmental-emphasis):

“ the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might employ their entire lives – things like driving a high mileage car, recycling, or using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.

The research also makes it clear that potential carbon impacts vary dramatically across countries. The average long-term carbon impact of a child born in the U.S. – along with all of its descendants – is more than 160 times the impact of a child born in Bangladesh.

“In discussions about climate change, we tend to focus on the carbon emissions of an individual over his or her lifetime,” said Paul Murtaugh, an OSU professor of statistics. “Those are important issues and it’s essential that they should be considered. But an added challenge facing us is continuing population growth and increasing global consumption of resources.”

In this debate, very little attention has been given to the overwhelming importance of reproductive choice, Murtaugh said. When an individual produces a child – and that child potentially produces more descendants in the future – the effect on the environment can be many times the impact produced by a person during their lifetime.

Under current conditions in the U.S., for instance, each child ultimately adds about 9,441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average parent – about 5.7 times the lifetime emissions for which, on average, a person is responsible.

And even though some developing nations have much higher populations and rates of population growth than the U.S., their overall impact on the global equation is often reduced by shorter life spans and less consumption. The long-term impact of a child born to a family in China is less than one fifth the impact of a child born in the U.S., the study found.”

 
I couldn’t have said it any better myself, and believe me, I tried -(http://www.ecoshuttle.net/index.php/2011/10/27/standing-room-only/). Okay, well that’s all for this week’s blog, I hope

you have a safe and sustainable weekend!

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