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A Word for Stephen Colbert - Overpopulation
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Date posted: July 11, 2012
We’ve been beating around the bush, at best; running and ducking for cover, at worst; for several decades when it comes to the issues of population growth and overpopulation. Robert Engelman of Worldwatch Institute explained this phenomenon rather well when I interviewed him for the GrowthBusters documentary. Engelman has a lot of expertise in this area. I recommend his book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want.
Dave Gardner
Director of the documentary
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
1 Comment
Maell
Aug 8, 2012
Seems like a good idea on the surface, but that’s a prtety painful procedure to force young men through when not all of them are even going to be engaging in heterosexual intercourse, and when we already have other forms of birth control. How would you even regulate that? Would homosexual men be exempt? If so, they’d be forced to either out themselves (sometimes not something a person can do without losing a lot) or go through the procedure anyway. Not to mention the question of who would regulate when a young man was mature enough to be allowed his reproductive facilities back it’s a slippery slope to eugenics.On the other hand, vasectomies available for free and performed discreetly might actually find some takers, if advertised right especially since, as you say, it can be reversed. And that could help cut down on some of the accidents, since most young men aren’t really eager to be fathers right when they become sexually active.