India Offers Free Cars For People to Get Sterilized
It could be said that two of the biggest challenges facing our planet arrise from a surging, resource-hungry human population, and from the steady rise in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions which threaten to alter its climate — but in an unprecedented move to counter the former, the government of India is essentially spurring the latter.
In the Indian state Rajasthan, health officials are hoping to lure at least 30,000 men and women into voluntarily being sterilized by offering them expensive incentives, like cars, to ensure that there’s never a baby on board.
