Posted on 06/22/2011 11:50:31 AM PDT by presidio9
From the safety of the political sidelines, former Vice President Al Gore is venturing into a touchy topic, presenting his holistic view of how to curb the buildup of greenhouse gases warming the planet. Besides improving technology to reduce fossil fuel emissions, he is advocating "educating and empowering girls and women."
"That's the most powerful leveraging factor," Gore said in a speech Monday in New York. "When that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices."
Although not entirely spelled out in the speech, Gore's thinking goes this way: If women are confident their children will survive, and if they have access to "fertility management," and if they have the power to decide how many children they want and when to have them, the result would be stabilization of the global population.
As it stands now, demographers at the United Nations forecast that the world's population will hit 7 billion later this year, march past 9 billion in 2045 and exceed 10 billion by the end of the century. Nearly all of the growth is expected to come in poor nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Gore made his remarks at the eighth annual Games for Change Festival, a conference organized by those who want to promote the use of video games for social change.
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What a little sissy.
Instead just coming out and saying what he really thinks, he has to grovel for emotional support from girls and women by renaming abortion “educating and empowering girls and women.”
Kill people! Save the Snail Darter!
I agree with Gore. We need to stabilize the population. It would be a good start in the right direction,
SINCE WE’RE CURRENTLY REPRODUCING AT LESS THAN THE REPLACEMENT RATE.
we know this- it won’t be the generational welfare recipient that take and take and take and take and give nothing back- well, other than keep uber liberals in power....
Al Gore does kill my urge to breed. Maybe he’s finally decided to speak about something he understands.
Al,
Start with those in muslim countries who breed like rabbits. Once you’ve “stabilized” them, get back to us.
Until then...
STFU.
VERY good!!!
Read recently that Europe was under-breeding and was in danger of losing all national identity. Couple this with the over-breeding of Muslims. Europe as we know it will soon disappear.
Was there a hot oil and message the groin competition at this Games for Change Festival?
BYE-BYE PERVERT!
Seems like the last time I heard about Algore, he had worked his way up to his Fourth Chakra.
Okay Al. Why don’t you start your campaign to stabilize birth rates with a lecture tour through those areas and demographics in the US that have the highest birth rates? Why not take on inner city teenage pregnancy rates as an issue? Why not tour those countries with the highest birth rates?
What has he cashed in on his carbon credits 2-3 billion?
Okay, AL. You go first................
One of the best, most important books of the last decade.
Did this festival have a "happy ending"
The Progressive definition of “empowerment” is “forced sterilization”.
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