I don't know about Pfizer, but Federal does:
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.
You'll notice that those that preach against "overpopulation" the most are also those least willing to do something about the issue. The flaming leftists could off themselves if they thought there were too many people. But they won't do that. Instead, they want others to make the sacrifice.
Leftism in a nutshell.
Geeeeeeez...how could I have forgotten them?
They will definitely be added to my future list.
Interesting thread.
China limits couples to one child.
The result: Girl babies are killed as couples want a son.
Governments are always right. (/s)
Latest Weather Channel Headline:
IS GORE'S GLOBAL FALTULENCE A POPULATION EXPLOSION?
I don't know about Pfizer, but Federal does:
ROTFLMAO!
and thanks for the "P"
As was so eloquently stated in the movie, "Animal House"-
bullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshitbullshit
Population control...and there it is...
lets start by getting rid of THEM!!!
It is amazing how seriously these people make these assertions. Given the increasingly vocal opposition to Climate Change Control, and the junkscience behind it, assertions of this sort are really reckless! And yet they say these things with a straight face. As I said, "Amazing!"
The latter is rated by the IPCC at 90% likely. That difference is big enough to drive a truck through. ...That what is happening is only marginally different - if at all - from the natural course of things, is something that should give pause to this hysteria.
Environmentalism, as a political movement, has killed more people, mostly women, children and babies, than Hitler and the Nazis.
Good point!
Logan's Run was just a movie.
Well, the other shoe has dropped on the GW debate. You knew this had to be coming. For an interesting take on the population issue, even though it is a bit dated, read the Population chapter in PJ O'Roarke's "All the Trouble in the World". The chapter is title something like: "Just Enough of Me, Way too Much of You". PJ has a great way of nailing the opposition.
They just want to keep up those abortions and push that euthanasia to keep that world socialism growing.
Gore is the first guy that needs to sacrifice himself for the cause! He's nominated.
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