This couple is threatening all of humankind. Enemies to the world!
Posted on 02/19/2007 1:34:22 PM PST by Coleus
Global warming is "unequivocal," according to the just-released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The most likely culprits are people - all of us. Yet, apart from insightful comments by former Vice President Al Gore, there has never been much public discussion about the role of human population growth in global warming. Professor Tim Dyson of the London School of Economics indicates that a 40 percent cut by 2050 in per capita carbon emissions in the developed world could be completely cancelled by global population growth. It's time to open a "second front" in the battle against global warming by stressing the need for population stabilization - sooner rather than later.
Scientists warn that temperatures will continue to rise unless we stabilize greenhouse gas levels. Global warming will be accompanied by increased sea levels resulting in massive flooding of homes and destruction of fragile wetland habitats. To slow down this process, experts estimate that global CO2 emissions must be slashed. Yet the United Nations projects that world population will rise 40 percent-- reaching 9.1 billion--by 2050. And even if we change our ways, the environmental footprint of each human being will never reach zero. As population increases, the challenge of slowing climate change becomes ever more difficult.
After all, it is people, not birds or bears, who drive Hummers and hybrids and who heat and cool homes and offices. Although the vast majority of population growth occurs in the least-developed nations, the people there, too, are using more fossil fuels every day as they seek better lives.
What can we do? We know that family planning works everywhere. When women and couples are free to make their own informed choices, they choose to have smaller families. Thirty years ago, for example, Mexican women had almost seven children each. Today, thanks to education and the availability of family planning, they have an average of 2.4 children. Globally, at least 350 million couples lack family planning services. Here in the United States, one-third of all births are unplanned. And the Bush Administration's family planning failures, from its Global Gag Rule to ideologically driven abstinence-only programs, contribute directly to millions of unwanted and unplanned births.
If we could cut in half the number of unwanted births in the United States alone, we'd have about 5 million fewer births over 20 years. Family planning makes sense for people – and for our fragile planet. It's vital to focus on thorny technical issues such as tax credits, energy alternatives and emissions trading programs. These efforts are especially important here in the United States, where less than five percent of the world's population produces about one quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. But cutting energy consumption must be coupled with stabilizing population. More people use more energy. If we had zero population growth, part of the global warming problem would, well, melt away. Global warming is too big a problem to be solved by energy experts alone. It's about people. It's about how many of us there are and how we choose to live our modern lives.
We can start by supporting the notion that every woman and every couple should have the resources and power to control their own reproductive lives. If every child is planned, we'll go a long way toward solving global warming and making a less-crowded and healthier world. John Seager is national president of Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth), the national grassroots population organization, based in Washington.
"Population Control" is the one unifying theme among all socialists.
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Great idea! Just think if could only get rid of all the hot air coming from liberals. Just remember all you Rats, birth control can save the planet.
The Global Warming Agenda is a power play on so many fronts!
Who gets to decide?
Me.
And I decide that anyone who professes liberal doctrine is to be sacrificed first.
They are the ones who understand the dire need, so they are the ones who will be "willingly" cast into the compost heap.
Should they choose to reject their indoctrination and repudiate the neomarxism they have so willingly embraced, they will be given first choice in what kind of plant they fertilize with their remains.
I am nothing if not benevolent.
I remember watching films in grade school about the population "problem". They showed one or two rats in a cage. Then many rats in a cage, interspersed with scenes from the streets of some large city, until finally the rats started going nuts from being jam packed in a small cage.
LOL. Some of us young traditional Catholics are going to make these people VERY angry.... ;-)
Don't you just love these idiots???????? They are almost human sometimes......
Why are we discouraging smoking cigarettes? Wouldn't we have less population if everyone smoked?
Why are we trying to provide universal health care for the uninsured? Wouldn't people die off faster if we didn't do that?
Why are we so encouraging when gay couples have children? Would the childless gay lifestyle be the best to solve this problem?
Could it be that we only want to limit the population of smart free thinking conservatives?
I've got five children. It looks like I'm on the hit list.
Great idea!
Let us start with China, Black Africa, Russia, Mexico and India.
They are the ones causing the over-population and industrial polution problem.
They're still around, but their names have changed to Hillary, Nancy and Osama.
If all the socialists on the planet would cease breathing, human CO2 contributions could be cut by 60% or more.
I'm all for that.
Already done. Even UN figures show world population topping out about 2050. Europe and Japan are below replacement levels and China will hit that point much sooner than earlier thought. Guess he didn't get the memo.
History, ancient and modern, demonstrates that the spread of economic well being to a broader spectrum of society reduces population growth.
The antidote to "rampant population growth" is capitalism. Oh, my goodness, that's the opposite of the proponents of the "second front" against "global warming"; imagine that.!!! /sarc
This couple is threatening all of humankind. Enemies to the world!
Well, Hitler's photographer was in Greenpeace if that will give any indication.
I would be remiss not to invite you to join your local Knights of Columbus Council.
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