Birth control pills spark debate over environment

Columbia News Service ^ | Mar. 15, 2008 | LISA CUPIDO

[Puppage]

Wherever possible, Tina Casale switches to compact fluorescent light bulbs; she also recycles daily, rides in carpools or walks when she can

Does she have a clothesline, or is walking to & fro to inconveniencing?

[b4its2late]

Flush some viagra to counteract the bc pills......

[RobinOfKingston]

Laurel Butler, 60, a New York member of the Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization, says she doesn't believe in infringing on other people's rights to make decisions.

The only reason the sierra club exists is to "infring[e] on other people's rights."

[wbill]

she says she would stand by a law that protects the environment against estrogen.

There's a fantastic joke here, just can't come up with it right this second.

[ChurtleDawg]

or anabolic steroids :o

[dragonblustar]

Sure, get rid of birth control to have more abortions. The libs would just love that.

[VeniVidiVici]

"If it's causing major problems, I guess I would stop. But to me, the health effects of the pill are a much greater concern than the fate of fish."

Hallmark of today's liberal Democrats.

"I'm all for it, unless it affects me."

[Vigilanteman]

Let the damn polar icecaps melt and dilute it.

Qattara Depression

If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Medditerranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?

[Slapshot68]

“Wherever possible, Tina Casale switches to compact fluorescent light bulbs; she also recycles daily, rides in carpools or walks when she can, and, as a third-grade teacher, has made it a priority to ensure that global warming is a frequent topic in her science discussions.”

All admiral ways to be good stewards of the environment....but to stop global warming? lol Yikes.

[ex-snook]

“Our Stolen Future: Birth control pills alter gender of male fish ...” Check google on what’s happening to fish. Future work force coming from unaffected third world countries. Today Mexico, tomorrow the world.

[Libertarianchick]

The fish can kiss my butt. I would not be able to function for several days every month due to severe cramps if I wasn’t on the pill. Not having kids every couple of years is only a side benefit.
Change the water treatment plants. I’m sure some treatment could chelate estrogens, they just need to find it.

[unixfox]

I don’t care if the earth collapses into a black hole, please, PLEASE do not let these people stop taking their anti-psychotic drugs to protect us from GLOBAL WARMING!

[KOZ.]

LOL...thats exactly what I thought...Can you make a law protecting us from estrogen?

thats just too funny.

[CPOSharky]

Didn’t the hormones-in-water-horrible-effects thing happen a few years ago and was totally debunked?

[wolfcreek]

Some group is developing a PSA to teach people how to *properly* dispose of their meds.

What about recycling sweat, urine and feces?

[wbill]

Can you make a law protecting us from estrogen?...Banning Hillary! and the NOW gang comes to mind. I'd feel safer.

But that's still not the right joke...still fishing around for it.

[CarrotAndStick]

"Flush some viagra to counteract the bc pills..."

Noooo!

VIAGRA SPILL REVIVES LAKE MICHIGAN
Once-Cold and Torpid, Waterway Now Greatest of Great Lakes

   Time-Lapse Satellite Images

Chicago (SatireWire.com) — A freighter containing 62,000 metric tons of popular impotence drug Viagra struck a reef and sank in Lake Michigan today. As a result, the once-frigid lake no longer dangles into Illinois and Indiana, but now spans majestically across northern Wisconsin.

According to eyewitnesses, roughly 30 to 60 minutes after the ship's contents dissolved, the lake slowly but firmly began to push northwest toward Minnesota. Eventually, its swollen banks managed to poke aside Lake Superior, which cartographers said will lose its standing as the largest of the Great Lakes for the next four to six hours.

Area residents were surprised by the sudden shift, but conceded Michigan was "like an entirely new lake."

"For so many years that lake just, you know, sat there," said Martha Strop of Eau Claire, Wisc. "To be honest, I never even thought about it anymore. There wasn't much of a point. But now, well, this has changed our lives forever."

Government officials, however, were more cautious.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott McCallum declared a state of emergency, while in Minnesota, Gov. Jesse Ventura declared: "Is Lake Michigan a threat, or is it just glad to see me?"

 

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[SuziQ]

as a third-grade teacher, has made it a priority to ensure that global warming is a frequent topic in her science discussions.

Does that mean she's brainwashing her little skulls full of mush with the Algore party line, or that she's giving the kids all sides of the story so they can make informed judgements about it? I'm assuming the former.

[Phantom Lord]

Laurel Butler, 60, a New York member of the Sierra Club, a grassroots environmental organization, says she doesn't believe in infringing on other people's rights to make decisions. But if birth control pills are proven to be the culprit, she says she would stand by a law that protects the environment against estrogen.

"Why aren't women in this generation doing more to protect the environment?" Butler said. "You've got a population screaming for instant, easy birth control and pharmaceutical companies answering to their demands. Who is responsible for the environment?"

Hey Laurel, its YOUR generation that brought The Pill, demands for it, and the environmental destruction it has caused. Not todays generation. Its YOUR FAULT!!!

Seriously. Can the environmental movement and Church of Algore get any more wacky?