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Lydia DePillis has a depressing item about the role access to contraceptives is playing (or, rather, not playing) in efforts to forestall catastrophic climate change:

Earlier this week, Thomas Wire of the London School of Economics published a study concluding that improved family planning is one of the most effective methods of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions we’ve got. This is something that sustainable-growth advocates have realized for a long time, but the actual numbers are startling: Reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies out there—calculated on the basis of “unmet need,” or women who want contraception but currently don’t have access —is roughly five times as cost-effective as deploying low-carbon technologies like wind, solar, and carbon sequestration. (Treehugger has a good summary.)

Poster’s examples of gods you don’t believe in:

Eunomia - greek goddess of order
Etsai -basque god of knowledge
Euri - basque god of rain
Euros - greco-roman god of the east winds
Eurynome - greek sea goddess
Fabulinus - roman god of infants
Faivarongo - polynesian god of mariners
Faraguvol - puerto rican and hatian god
Faro - west african river god
Fauna - roman vegetation goddess
Faunus - roman vegetation goddess
Fe - west african guardian god
Fe’e - polynesian god of the dead
Felicitas - roman god
Feng Po - chinese sky god
Fides - roman god
Fidi Mukullu - central african creator god
Fjorgyn - nordic fertility goddess
Flaitheas - celtic guardian goddess
Flora - roman goddess of flowers
Flying Spaghetti Monster - parody god

Heeeey, wait a minute. Don’t call my god a “parody god”! :)

(via @mjmalone)