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John Seager: Fight warming through birth control
The Providence Journal ^
| 08:13 AM EST on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
| John Seager
Posted on 02/22/2007 6:24:22 PM PST by Brian Mosely
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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 administrations family-planning failures, from its global gag rule against abortion 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 U.S. alone, wed have about 5 million fewer births over 20 years.
Perhaps Seager should have titled this: "Fight Global Warming through More Abortions"
To: Brian Mosely; Lil'freeper
Eliminate all the liberals. Problem solved.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:26:07 PM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
(It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
To: Brian Mosely
If we could just kill the 300 million inhabitants of the United States we could save 25% of global energy consumption.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:26:24 PM PST
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right but never in doubt)
To: Brian Mosely
And why can't Mr. Seager and others do the brave thing and take their own lives to spare us global warming? We could plant trees in their memory.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:26:39 PM PST
by
gotribe
(There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
To: Brian Mosely
It must be terrible to have every little kooky idea you ever heard of tying in with every other one in your head like that.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:26:52 PM PST
by
D.P.Roberts
(Just a humble handbasket salesman- what size would you like, sir?)
To: Brian Mosely
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:28:25 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
And the Bush administrations family-planning failures Wondered how long this would take...to blame the President
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:28:53 PM PST
by
JoanneSD
To: Brian Mosely
This is so 1970s. Every single industrial country is near or below replacement birth rates, many far below.
The only way to stop the growth of population in the next 40 years or so in these countries is to kill a bunch of people.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:28:56 PM PST
by
Sherman Logan
(I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
To: gotribe
Gotribe, you are the man! I'll support your campaign...I'll buy the trees.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:30:51 PM PST
by
gobus1
To: Brian Mosely
Family planning makes sense for people and for our fragile planet.![](http://www.populationconnection.org/Communications/jseager.jpg)
I'm sure he's doing his part. I seriously doubt this dude is getting laid.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:31:14 PM PST
by
edpc
(Watch this space)
To: Brian Mosely
More unassailable factoids from some Infertility Cult?
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:31:17 PM PST
by
claptrap
(We've found a Witch can we burn her?)
To: Brian Mosely
I wish liberals would take their own advice and stop reproducing. They should just neuter themselves as soon as they discover they are liberals. I mean if they were really serious about these problems.
To: Sherman Logan
Yeah, I found the above article at this
blog, and the blogger makes this point:"Mr. Seager is so seventies in combining his blame-America-first ideology with warnings of looming environmental disaster. The United States is 130th on the world fertility ranking list, already at a rate of 2.09 children-per-woman, meaning that our population has already stabilized (when every couple produces two kids, total population doesnt grow)."
"The most fertile European country is Albania at 132 (2.03 children-per-woman). The first West European country in fertility ranking is Iceland at 141 (1.92 children-per-woman). And to find a continental West European country on the fertility list, we have to drop down to France at 154 (1.84 children-per-woman, already helping advance Mr. Seagers goals, by beginning to depopulate itself). Given these numbers, if Mr. Seager is serious about what he says, he needs to focus his efforts on the Third World and tell them they cant be having so many kids, because they are causing global warming. "
"(Related question: Anyone care to speculate on whether its a positive sign, or a sign of the apocalypse that Afghanistan is now 5th in fertility, at 6.69 children-per-woman?)"
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:33:42 PM PST
by
Brian Mosely
(A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
To: Brian Mosely
Isn't this the complete butthead who said something to the effect that it was better to kill a human (baby?) than an animal?
About ten years ago or so.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:33:45 PM PST
by
LibKill
(ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
To: Brian Mosely
The author is obviously unaware that the developed world as a whole is already at zero growth and sliding into negative numbers. If if weren't for the bleed-off of folks from the undeveloped world into the developed world, those numbers would be ringing alarm bells.
When you factor in the dramatic increases in efficiency that we are already seeing, efficiencies that will only accelerate in the near future, the developed world is not the problem. He needs to be addressing his concerns to China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc., etc.
While not politically correct and certainly not easier in terms of getting the mainstream media to hang on to every word, it would be less of a waste of his time ... and ours.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:36:27 PM PST
by
Ron/GA
To: big'ol_freeper
What an absolute load of rubbish.
I more convinced than ever that the entire Global Warming BS was authored by a panel of socialist elders in a hermetically sealed room beneath the UN.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:38:20 PM PST
by
zarf
(Her hair was of a dank yellow, and fell over her temples like sauerkraut......)
To: Brian Mosely
Actually, fertility rates below 2.11 children per woman result in shrinking population due to deaths before puberty, and yes, that's with modern health-care.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:38:36 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Brian Mosely
Gore could cut his carbon emission down by having
his children deemed 'wards of the state'.
Than the state could raise taxes to puchase more
carbon offsets for the wards.
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:39:44 PM PST
by
Son House
( The Presidents enemies, are my enemies.)
To: Brian Mosely
Its time to open a second front in the battle against global warming by stressing the need for population stabilization, sooner rather than later.
Replace "global warming" with "dwindling food supply and you have a Neo-Malthusian (too many people, not enough food, something's got to give).
These efforts are especially important here in the United States, where less than 5 percent of the worlds population produces about 25 percent of the worlds carbon-dioxide emissions. But cutting energy consumption must be coupled with stabilizing population.
Sell China and India on cutting energy consumption first. Oh right, they don't have to, seeing as how they were tyrannized by the EVIL imperialist powers. *gag*
More people use more energy. If we had zero population growth, part of the global warming problem would, well, melt away.
That is an excellent point Mr.Seager. I suggest that you volunteer to have your energy consumption cut down to zero immediately. That means caves and sharpened rocks for you.
To: Brian Mosely; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; honolulugal; gruffwolf; ...
Click graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
"eugenics is ugly"
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posted on
02/22/2007 6:41:19 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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