Practice Safe Sex & Save the World

NEWS.AOL.com-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.

"It requires a major leap of imagination to believe that free condoms will cool down the climate," said Caroline Boin, a policy analyst at International Policy Network, a London-based think tank.

She also questioned earlier efforts by the agency to control the world's population.

According to Boin, "Numerous environmental indicators show that with development and economic growth, we are able to preserve more natural habitats. There is no causal relationship between population density and poverty."

In this month's Bulletin, the World Health Organization's journal, two experts also warned about the dangers of linking fertility to climate change.

"Using the need to reduce climate change as a justification for curbing the fertility of individual women at best provokes controversy and at worst provides a mandate to suppress individual freedoms," wrote WHO's Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum and Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan.

The Improper Sportsonian is fully behind this cause! I hate paying for condoms and if this means that they will be free then I'd never have to waste money on those Trojan Magnums. Yeah I said it. Magnums.

Ha, but also this will help men worldwide get laid more often. Think about it. How many times have you left a party or bar with a girl and you go back to her place. I don't know about you, but I never carry condoms on me when I go out. It's bad luck. But you go back to the girl's place and you have no condom and now you can't even play Just the Tip. Huge buzzkill. But if condoms were free I could hit up the Citgo station down the street and tell Manuel to hit me with pack of rubbers.

Everyone wins. I get laid. The population get maintained. She doesn't get pregnant. And I save the world from Global Warning. All that in 2 minutes of sex. Who woulda thunk it?