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Environmentalists giving away Earth Day condoms to combat overpopulation
In honor of Earth Day this year, groups are giving out 44,000 “Endangered Species Condoms.”
The environmentally friendly condoms will be distributed in an effort to refocus the green holiday back to why it was started: to campaign against “runaway human population growth and overconsumption.”
“April 22 is the 44th Earth Day, and this year we want to bring the holiday’s focus back to its origins: runaway human population growth and overconsumption, the root causes of our most pressing environmental crises,” the Center for Biological Diversity wrote in a pitch to its supporters.
“We need people across the country to help distribute 44,000 Endangered Species Condoms in time for Earth Day,” the Center continued. “These colorful, fun condom packages feature six species threatened by our growing human population — already more than 7 billion — along with talking points to help get the conversation started.”
Environmentalists have been increasingly turning back to arguments that the world is on its way to having too many people to sustain life. Californians for Population Stabilization attempted to make overpopulation the central theme of Earth Day 2013, saying that rapid population growth imperils biodiversity and causes habitat loss.
“The consequences of that growth are all around us—loss of open space, air and water pollution, traffic congestion, and never-ending sprawl,” said Jo Wideman, executive director of Californians for Population Stabilization. “Habitat loss due to population growth is the greatest threat to wildlife.”
Even Al Gore has said that “fertility management” was the key to sustainable development in the third world — an important component of the fight against global warming.
David Brower, a former executive director of the Sierra Club who also sat on the groups board as recently as 2000, once said, “Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration… has to be addressed.”
The emphasis on “fertility management” and population control comes as more and more evidence casts doubt upon the validity of the theory of man-made global warming. Global temperatures have been flat for the last 17 years or so and so-called “extreme weather” events have not been on the rise, despite environmentalist rhetoric.
The public has also become more skeptical that global warming will be catastrophic. A recent Gallup poll found that 42 percent of Americans say the seriousness of global warming is “generally exaggerated” by the media, compared to 33 percent who say its “generally underestimated.”
And while 57 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused by humans, that’s fewer than the 61 percent that believed so in 2007. This is on top of the fact that no major global warming bill has been able to pass Congress since the failed attempt to pass cap-and-trade in 2009 and 2010.
Today the world’s populations is at about 7 billion, nearly double what it was in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated. According to the United Nations, the world’s population will reach about 10 billion by 2050.
Around the time of the first Earth Day, scientists Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, now the White House science czar, worried that the world’s population would outstrip technology and food production capabilities. Ehrlich and Brower wrote the book “The Population Bomb,” which warned of mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation. The book advocated for population control to remedy the future threat.
The book’s dire predictions failed to materialize. The world’s population continued to grow and new technologies enabled farmers to realize huge increases in food production. And as poor countries like China and India began to develop, they too began to bring people out of poverty and chronic hunger.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one-eighth of the world’s population suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. The number of hungry people in the world declined by 132 million between 1990-92 and 2010-12 — from 18.6 percent to 12.5 percent of the world’s population.
12 Comments on "Environmentalists giving away Earth Day condoms to combat overpopulation"
Plantagenet on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 12:48 am
The USA is already at ZPG (not countring illegal immigration). These condoms could be put to much better use in countries with high birth rates, like Mexico.
Kenz300 on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 12:56 am
Endless population growth is not sustainable……..
It leads to more poverty, suffering and despair.
Wrap it up………….
noobtube on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 1:10 am
Let’s see…
$51,000 United States Per capita income United States
$9,700 Mexico Per Capita Income
$6,000 China Per Capita Income
It would appear, Mexico and China are FAR MORE EFFICIENT at supporting a human being than the United States.
Therefore, those condoms need to encourage a NEGATIVE BIRTH RATE in the United States.
The United States is one of the most INEFFICIENT users of energy to support human life.
And, that is why the world is facing peak everything.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 2:01 am
Noob, here are the numbers and sorry your logic is part of your agenda and does not fit reality
Per capita GDP
$3,348 china
$51,704 usa
$12,616 mexico
energy investor on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 2:39 am
The UN’d numbers look wrong to me…wonder what they are smoking?
Boat on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 2:42 am
noob The US already has a negative birth rate. Illegal and legal immigration is what pushes up our population.
GregT on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 7:19 am
Sorry Boat,
Considering the fact that all North Americans, other than the Natives, were immigrants, it is the immigrant population that is growing exponentially. If the natives had of been left alone, their populations would more than likely still be sustainable.
Was it legal, or illegal, to invade North America to begin with?
Davy, Hermann, MO on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 12:34 pm
Greg, part of my spirituality is “Native American”. I mention this in relation to how the North American natives most fully developed a sustainable and resilient mode of living within their natural confines. I say this before the earliest European influence. Their society, economics, and energy sources were highly developed with sustainability and resilience in mind. I do not mention the rest of the world because there widespread early technology of transport (horse) and energy (AG) ruined this process for the most part. It was the isolation of the Native American in mostly hunter gather modes that allowed this pinnacle of harmony with Nature. They may have been savages from a European point of view but we now see the folly of the European human experiment. Read about the Kogi – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogi_people as a South American example and the Hopi in North America.
Makati1 on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 3:53 pm
Interesting facts:
US is number 35 in life expectancy and only leads Cuba by 6 months.
US per capta Income in 2013 was $52,800 (CIA) and Cuba’s is $6,500.
Obviously money is not the real measure of wealth. But then, Americans waste the difference on unnecessary junk.
I can make many more comparisons but this one is typical and also proves that a happy, long life is possible on a small fraction of American income.
Davey on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 4:03 pm
Immigrants and the poor pull the numbers down Makati. People can use statistics all day long to prove their point even against themselves with the same statistics. Balance is needed to wade through the BS.
GregT on Sun, 23rd Mar 2014 4:51 pm
Completely agree with you Davy. I have spent a fair amount of time with the ‘Natives’ here in BC. If our ‘culture’ had the same respect for the natural environment that theirs did, we wouldn’t be facing the predicaments that we do. Their way of life was sustainable, ours is not.
Kenz300 on Mon, 24th Mar 2014 3:06 pm
Access to family planning services needs to be available to all that want it.
The worlds worst environmental problem is OVER POPULATION.