Birth control could help combat climate change

Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.

More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don”t have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.

The world’s population is projected to jump to 9 billion by 2050, with more than 90 percent of that growth coming from developing countries… Read Full Article