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The men getting vasectomies to save the world!
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostWhy is it stupid to have a vasectomy because of concerns about over-population and the impact of climate change?
As an aside Saturday I watched one of those old early 50s horror movies with giant spiders. It became large enough to walk over a house without touching it.
Anywho... it grew as a result of a scientist developing a nutrient to cause animals to grow as a way of solving overpopulation and an inability to feed everyone. He grimly predicted that by 2000 there would be 4 billion people. We actually had half again as many as that.
Today, with nearly 8 billion we aren't seeing the famines of the past. Food can be shipped in to an area hit in short order. In fact, the only time we see mass starvation is when someone prevents the food from being shipped to the people in need for political or religious reasons. IOW, famines are now man-made and not natural.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostAn recent interesting article in the Guardian about the number of young men who are getting vasectomies for the good of the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...andable-choice
Nick Demediuk, an Australian GP and one of the world’s most prolific vasectomy clinicians, says most of his patients are fathers over the age of 35. But the doctor, who has completed more than 40,000 procedures since 1981, now estimates that about 200 of the 4,000 patients his clinic sees each year are younger men without kids. About 130 of them say they are doing it for the planet.
I can see their point given the impact that climate change is going to have on this planet and societies. I think the same thing despite having three adult sons.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, an associate professor of environmental studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, is the author of a forthcoming book about “eco-reproductive” choice. Last year, he carried out a detailed survey of 600 people aged 27 to 45 who were worried about the climate crisis. Of these, 96% worried that their children would struggle to thrive in or even survive the worst-case climate scenarios, while 60% were concerned about the carbon footprint of their potential offspring.
Of course there is always adoption as well so couples do not have to be childless.
Vasectomies don’t necessarily preclude parenting. Rodney Pohl, 26, an IT technician, is planning to foster or adopt with his wife, Carrie, who watched Pohl’s vasectomy at the SimpleVas clinic near their home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last June. The couple were motivated partly by weather extremes and what they foretold. A recent polar vortex had taken out the power on their street for 10 days. “We had neighbours breastfeeding small infants and we were sharing generators to try to keep their fridge going, to not waste [expressed] milk,” Pohl says.
In Essex, Williamson, who is not in a long-term relationship, says he may also adopt one day. “There are more than enough children and young adults already out there who could have a loving home and family – it doesn’t have to be your own blood,” he says. Neither he nor Miller expect to regret their vasectomies. Pohl says he very occasionally feels pangs of broodiness. “But I quickly move on,” he says.
The article also refers to an American film maker called Jonathan Stack who has co-founded World Vasectomy Day to address myths and stigmas about modern vasectomies and to promote it as a form of birth control.
I found the WVD site and there is an interesting 3 minute video showing Dr Esgar Guarin and his mobile vasectomy unit.https://wvd.org/the-us-vasectomy-tour/follow-the-story/
Has anyone here ever seen or heard of this peripatetic family planning unit which strikes me as a very good way of spreading the message as well as giving men the opportunity to have the operation.
As Guarin notes in the video when people are faced with something they had neither encountered nor considered before it tends to generates a conversation.
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
Why is it stupid to have a vasectomy because of concerns about over-population and the impact of climate change?
As to overpopulation, that's been a myth since that idiotic "The Population Bomb" spewed its nonsense in the 1960s. We are not remotely close to overpopulation.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostAnother thread by H_A that nobody really disagrees with. I wonder how she will derail it to start a fight?
I don’t think HA has any right to discuss this subject since she isn’t a man!
At least I don’t think she is….
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostOne does not require an operation if one possesses even a little bit of self control. Moreover, these are typically folks who woulda had one or two kids which hardly contributes to over-population so it is in effect nothing but more virtue signaling.
As an aside Saturday I watched one of those old early 50s horror movies with giant spiders. It became large enough to walk over a house without touching it.
Anywho... it grew as a result of a scientist developing a nutrient to cause animals to grow as a way of solving overpopulation and an inability to feed everyone. He grimly predicted that by 2000 there would be 4 billion people. We actually had half again as many as that.
Today, with nearly 8 billion we aren't seeing the famines of the past. Food can be shipped in to an area hit in short order. In fact, the only time we see mass starvation is when someone prevents the food from being shipped to the people in need for political or religious reasons. IOW, famines are now man-made and not natural.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostOne does not require an operation if one possesses even a little bit of self control.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostMoreover, these are typically folks who woulda had one or two kids which hardly contributes to over-population so it is in effect nothing but more virtue signaling.
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Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
Neither of those things require a cut to population. Climate alarmism might be scary, but the reality is we'll simply need to adjust to the changing climate like we have for millenia. No need to snip yourslef for humanity to do that.
As to overpopulation, that's been a myth since that idiotic "The Population Bomb" spewed its nonsense in the 1960s. We are not remotely close to overpopulation.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
Not a bit - it's actually prophesy.Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette
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Originally posted by seer View Post
It is still about not having children, it still makes children the problem.
Originally posted by seer View PostIt is anti-human. 70 years from now? Same old same old, with more people...
Unless you are going to start a campaign maintaining Every Sperm is Sacred!
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