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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.
purplefox

31 responses // Condoms for climate change!

  • Now there's an idea... Although, are condoms biodegradable?
    abbym0308
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  • http://www.getethical.com/em_full.php?id=245&cat=Green ...
    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..
    purplefox
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  • 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 ...
    nazbags
  • 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.
    Julie_Soller
  • 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.
    uroborus8
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  • http://www.washtimes.com/news/2007/feb/18/20070218-1004...
    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."
    maasanova
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  • Aren't condoms mostly made from petroleum?
    I'm perplexed.
    huntre
  • Thanks, Purple,...
    Finally, someone has the guts to say
    EARTH IS OVER-POPULATED & STOP MAKING BABIES!!!
    PajamaDan
  • 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.
    ctrl_alt_del
  • Contraceptives also are safer for users, this could mean a population with less STDs and a healthier planet.
    usman6
  • 215 million times a day!!!???
    wow!
    Ben_Traffic_UK
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  • 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.
    glabadabadoo
  • 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
    VSiskos
  • Many people in developing countries want to have more children so that the children can help create household income.
    sustainablejohn
  • nobody says you have to throw away a condom when your done using it, just wash it out and reuse it
    fuckbush
  • 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.
    millerke
  • 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.
    geneonlbk
  • Hooray for condoms!!!!!!!!!!
    MrBigShot21
  • 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.
    StuntBunny
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  • 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.
    GreenLady420
  • Human beings are in need of a natural predator, besides themselves.
    glabadabadoo
  • 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!
    haleyann

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