Western nations are trying to use India's "profligate reproductive behaviour" to force Delhi to accept legally binding emission reduction targets, India's environment minister said today.
Between 1970 and 2000 the mean age at which women had their first child in a range of OECD countries rose by more than a year every decade, and many more women now have their families in their 30s.
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它说除非各国能通过限制生育来降低人口的增长,否则它们不可能提供干净的水。
It says countries cannot provide clean water unless they slow population growth by limiting the number of children people have.