Posted on 01/28/2014 4:53:44 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Vice President Al Gore raised eyebrows last week when he suggested that fertility management was the key to fighting global warming and promoting economic development in poor countries. Gores comments drew criticism from free-marketeers who said his remarks amount to eco-imperialism.
Gores agenda for saving the world from global warming has always included population control, Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Advocating population control specifically for Africa is just another form of imperialism. Gores eco-imperialism is uncomfortably close to the original racist goals of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who advocated population control in order to control the number of black and brown people in the world.
The world is expected to have more than 9 billion people by 2075, with much of that growth coming from developing countries in Africa. This is alarming to environmental activists like Gore, who argues that fertility management is needed to address a whole slew of global development issues, including mitigating global warming.
When Gore advocates making fertility management ubiquitously available, does he mean that there should be free condom dispensers on every solar panel? Ebell added.
Gore was on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last week titled Changing the Climate for Growth and Development. The panel looked at global development through a climate lens and included other world leaders such as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available so women can choose how many children and the spacing of children is crucial to the future shape of human civilization, Gore said on an international panel on global warming last week.
Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century; more than China and India combined by end of the century, and this is one of the causal factors that must be addressed, the failed presidential candidate added.
Gore then tied Typhoon Haiyan and Superstorm Sandy to manmade global warming, adding that extreme weather events were 100 more times common than 30 years ago.
And it comes about of course, because we continue to put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere everyday, as if its an open sewer, Gore added.
Gore and the Obama administration have been arguing that extreme weather is now more common than ever because of rising global temperatures. Not all climate scientists, however, agree on whether or not global warming is causing weather to become more extreme.
It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally, University of Colorado climate scientist Roger Pielke told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last year. It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases.
Hurricanes have not increased in the U.S. in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900, Pielke added. The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970.
(H/T Climate Depot)
Barack Obama's Science and Technology Adviser is John P. Holdren (co-author with Ehrlichs of "The Population Bomb" and other writings).
Margaret Sanger would be proud of Al...
Pete Seeger died today. This means the position of “Most Annoying and Embarrassing American Alive” is open. Al Gore is a shoe-in.
Can every couple have 4 children like Al did?
Fertility management = massage parlour? Now we know what he was up to.
What al needs to do is devote as much time to his children, as he does to taking money from stupid people, and his children would be more stable.
It sounds like the wild and crazy sex poodle is off his meds again.
Too bad Al’s parents didn’t practice what Al preaches. My God was a bag of hot gas Al is!
Hitler gets mad at Al Gore's global warming hypocrisy
I’m betting this would only apply to non-Muslims. Caliphate by attrition.
Cut your nards off Al. Set an example.
Let’s see him go to Muslim countries and sell that idea.
i thought 500 pound sumo wrestlers who ate at inexpensive asain restaurants were a primary cause of global warming.god,can anyone imagine lighting a ciggy right next to their butts?
“... and promoting economic development in poor countries.”
Now wait a minute here, I thought we were told economic development (as in the industrial revolution) was the main cause of global warming..
Unless his definition of economic development meant giving U.S. taxpayer money away..
You're forgetting the *resident in the White Hut.
Ps rot in hell commie Seeger.
Too bad Algore’s mom didn’t practice fertility management. I myself am also glad to see Pete Seeger and his dumbass ideas gone.
Limiting population growth in middle-eastern countries would be a good start.
Only if they are the “right kind” of people.
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