According to an editorial in The Lancet¹, there are 200 million women worldwide who want contraception but don’t have access to it. Simply providing family-pla

According to an editorial in The Lancet¹, there are 200 million women worldwide who want contraception but don’t have access to it. Simply providing family-planning services is five times cheaper than other carbon-emission-mitigation technologies. I submit this as an excellent example of a policy measure that would help prevent global warming if the scientific consensus is right, and provide a genuine social good even if the consensus turns out to be wrong. ¹cited by the AP, here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/18/tech/main5319878.shtml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/18/tech/main5319878.s...