Green | July 02, 2008 | 32 comments

Condoms for climate change!

source: http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-34340220080702

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There are too many people on this planet producing harmful, global-warming related carbon, eating its food and damaging its environment and the number of us just keeps on growing. In short, we are becomming unsustainable. So what's the solution?

Well, let's go back to the beginning and talk about sex. This is the topic addressed by environmentalist and author Robert Engelman in his new book 'More: Population, Nature and What Women Want". Engelman argues that better sex education and access to contraception can be the key to easing many of the world's problems, from social and economic instability to climate change.

For an activity that's done about 215 million times every day, producing more babies than the planet can handle, maybe it's about time we get everyone to bring discussion about sex out from under the covers, and into the open.
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32 comments // Condoms for climate change!

  • haleyann
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      haleyann  

    • wait theres over 6 billion people on earth and we altogether only do it 215 million times a day??????
      i would have guessed higher actually!

    • 3 years ago
  • glabadabadoo
  • GreenLady420
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      GreenLady420  

    • Ok. Reefs of condoms? That just nasty. People need to make to the squishy-squishy to release tension and make babies. More people should adopt, but there is nothing like holding your flesh and blood the day its born.

    • 3 years ago
  • PatBoberg
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      PatBoberg  

    • Maybe we should just pull a china and make it illegal to have more children than a 1-1 ratio. One child for each parent. If you have a third biological kid or beyond, there is a tax.

      want three or more legally? Adopt.

    • 3 years ago
  • Frier_peppino
  • MrBigShot21
  • geneonlbk
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      geneonlbk  

    • Few socities will approach population reduction because religion uses this single issue as a political hot-button and preach to the uneducated that having babies is sacred. No matter about impoverished lives and the death of our planet; god wants us to proceate like bunnies.

      Rubbers are a drag! We need more enjoyable means of having fewer replications.

    • 3 years ago
  • millerke
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      millerke  

    • Usually condoms are made from latex, a natural substance harvested from the latex plant (my grandma has one growning in her living room). However, they can be melted down and recycled...although recycling condoms sounds kinda nasty.

    • 3 years ago
  • fuckbush
  • sustainablejohn
  • VSiskos
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      VSiskos  

    • I want to start a program called "Condoms for Everyone at All Times!" *

      * Unless you're trying to have a baby or trust your partner

    • 3 years ago
  • glabadabadoo
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      glabadabadoo  

    • Overpopulation will destroy the earth.More people=more pollution.Unlike China ,We will be unable to do anything about it in a free society.I wish folks would have a responsible amount of children of there own choosing.Why should I have to pay for others irresponsibility, when I only had one, which is what i can afford.

    • 3 years ago
  • Mr_T
  • SpookyFish
  • Mr_T
  • usman6
  • ctrl_alt_del
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      ctrl_alt_del  

    • I think a better way is to invent and invest in green technology. And anyway birth rates are actually going down, and remember just because a place is crowded doesnt mean the quality of life goes down.

    • 3 years ago
  • PajamaDan
  • huntre
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
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    • Global warming is just an updated version of Nazi eugenics. The entire movement is being run by the same front companies and so-called philanthropists foundations that funded Hitler. Just so you greenies know, you're being scammed by this propaganda.

      Here's a great article that shows the paralells between the Nazi eugenics philosophy of controlling the population to the global warming cultists who want to reduce population.

      Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent

      "Believers in eugenics argued that we could improve the human race by controlling reproduction. The most respected scientists from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other bastions of intellectual rigor retreated to a complex on Long Island named Cold Spring Harbor. Their support came from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman fortune working with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, State and other agencies.

      The "science" was not lacking important public supporters. Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson were enthusiastic believers. The theory won approval of Supreme Court justices, leaders in higher education and Nobel Prize winners. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was one of the most vocal adherents. She established the first "birth control" clinic in 1916.

      They believed that "the best" human beings were not having as many children as inferior ones -- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, Blacks, degenerates, the unfit and the "feeble minded." Sanger said "fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty." She spoke of the burden of caring for "this dead weight of human waste." H.G. Wells spoke against "ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens." Roosevelt said, "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind." George Bernard Shaw said that only eugenics could save mankind.

      Twenty-nine states passed laws allowing sterilization. Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were sterilized -- some legally. The Germans were the most progressive. They had help. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the work of its central racial scientists, one of whom was Josef Mengele."

    • 3 years ago
  • Frier_peppino
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      Frier_peppino  
    • maasanova:

      I think the best thing is if you can give out the information, and then allow the individual person choose whether or not they want to reproduce or sterilize themselves. Noone should take the right to have children away from anyone else other than themselves.

    • 3 years ago
  • Mr_T
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      Mr_T  
    • maasanova:

      "The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the work of its central racial scientists, one of whom was Josef Mengele."

      woah.... that's crazy

    • 3 years ago
  • uroborus8
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      uroborus8  

    • The greenest thing you can do is NOT reproduce. But of coarse if all the smart people stop reproducing, we'll be left with nothing but Republicans.

    • 3 years ago
  • Frier_peppino
  • Brockie
  • Julie_Soller
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      Julie_Soller  

    • Condoms for climate change....pffff.
      Reality: Birth rates are falling rapidly worldwide as remaining regions of the Third World begin the demographic transition - ­when birth rates drop in response to an earlier decline in death rates.

      Third World societies with dramatically successful early and rapid reductions of population growth rates - ­China, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Cuba and the Indian state of Kerala - ­prove that the lives of the poor, especially poor women, must improve before they can choose to have fewer children.

      Improve the lives of people around the world, end poverty...then we can begin to address the overpopulation issue.

      But I like the colors of your rubbers, purplefox.

    • 3 years ago
  • nazbags
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      nazbags  

    • Interesting, but I'm not sure using more condoms and having less babies will really solve the overpopulation problem ... it's more of a resource problem, I think. A family in Connecticut can have two kids that use up way more resources than a family of ten kids in a third-world country. Then again, overcrowding is causing huge problems, especially with hygiene. Plus, every time you use a condom you can give yourself a pat on the back for being such an environmentally-minded, selfless individual ...

    • 3 years ago
  • purplefox
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      purplefox  

    • was wondering about the biodegradable issue too when I read this..

      Apparently we get rid of around 300 million of them a year (scary considering the 215 million times a day statistic, though I'm not sure if the former is a global study), most of which go into the sea via the sewage system. 'Huge reefs' of condoms have apparently even been found by scuba divers 'floating in the general direction of Antarctica (see link).

      Biodegradable condoms have been developed but still seems to be quite a niche market...

      I guess we are still at the stage where knowing to use a condom at all is important and the authorities don't want to bring in confusing mixed-messages about the dolphin-damaging potential of contraceptives..

    • 3 years ago
  • millerke
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      millerke  
    • purplefox:

      actually, the "condom reef" is an urban legend:

      Condom reef surrounds fantasy island
      Seldom have we come across such a strange floating detritus story as the one below.

      Australian scientists reported last week of a massive floating reef in the South Pacific. It was floating because it was made of rubber — more precisely millions and millions of rubber Johnnies. Yep, that’s right, a man-made condom island.

      The two mile long, up to 60 feet deep agglomeration of prophylactics was so compressed that a small plane could be landed on it, which makes us ask two questions. 1. What scientific experiment does it take to test whether planes land or bounce on floating piles of condoms and 2. Will it become a tourist destination?

      The report stated that the island had been been discovered by by the Australian Oceanographic Laboratory Outpost on Macquarie Island.

      “Scientists there explained that the accumulation, which consists almost exclusively of condoms, is explained by a principle of physics called “like aggregation.” Like aggregation is caused by the massing of similar objects due to ocean currents and winds, the response of the objects to the earth’s magnetic field, and other factors.

      “The tendency of dust to clump and mass in a house or under a bed is explained by the same principle,” the report continued.

      “The Australian scientists are mapping the reef by satellite because it is a serious marine hazard,” it concluded. The fascination for the tale of the Titanic sure would be a different story if it had gone down by condoms as opposed to icebergs.

      The news story was reported at the normally reliable African news service Mathaba. It was a perfect type of filler for that ‘and finally…’ slot that we tend to put in last story — the wacky, fun, strange type of tale. It was only once we had started investigating into it that we found, just like Nemo, it was all make believe — a brilliantly crafted internet rumour taken by many news services as truth that has been hoodwinkingly peddled time and again since as long ago as 1996.

      For more on this brilliant urban legend that sheathed the truth, click here.

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    • 3 years ago
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