Last Straw » David Attenborough http://last-straw.net The weblog of Christiaan Briggs Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:27:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Offset your international flight with the life of one African http://last-straw.net/offset-your-international-flight-with-the-life-of-one-african/ http://last-straw.net/offset-your-international-flight-with-the-life-of-one-african/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:10:19 +0000 Christiaan http://last-straw.net/?p=2933 promoting a plan to cut CO2 emissions by paying for family planning in the developing world:
Calculations based on the trust's figures show the 10 tonnes emitted by a return flight from London to Sydney would be offset by enabling the avoidance of one unwanted birth in a country such as Kenya.

So one African's life is worth the carbon emissions of one flight from London to Sydney? Something tells me the African is not the problem in this equation.

Providing the means for women to avoid an unwanted birth is an admiral pursuit but, really, offsetting the over consumption of people in rich countries to fund it?

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