"Inadequate contraception is not just a Third World issue. Roughly half of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended. And a baby born in North America will use roughly 25 times more resources over the course of its life than a baby born in the developing world."

Of course, it's not like we want any more of those third world babies either, but they DO use less energy.
Nate | 06.30.08 - 1:14 pm | #

I noticed yesterday in downtown Seattle so many hetero parents with kids headed to that Pride parade. What sort of distorted values have these people ingested?
Arnold | 06.30.08 - 1:24 pm | #

So then every environmentalist should do the honest thing and be sterilized and leave the rest of us to have the kids we want.

That way, environmentalism will go the route of the Shakers and everyone will be better off.
Amy P. | 06.30.08 - 2:26 pm | #

By the way, does anyone else find it highly ironic that they have no problem with 100 million condoms polluting our landfills and spreading disease? Just as the pill and hormones are affecting our waterways and changing the gender of aquatic life.

Guess that doesn't matter - just don't make another carbon-guzzling human!
Amy P. | 06.30.08 - 2:29 pm | #

The environmental activists and population explosionists always assume that the "right number" of people always includes them. So many of these people come from the well-off or very well-off. They continue to live the life style they have become accustomed to and make few if any true sacrifices. I know this because I live among them in this corner of God's green acre called Seattle.
Arnold | 06.30.08 - 2:30 pm | #

"... three of the most serious problems facing humans: sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies and population growth."

*Most* serious??? Is this guy for real?
Barbarossa | 06.30.08 - 3:12 pm | #

Ditto all points above. I cannot even begin to say it better than y'all!

No wonder Mark is such a great apologist, he lives in a part of the country that keeps his grey matter in tip top shape!
Confederate Papist | 06.30.08 - 3:26 pm | #

"Unintended pregnancy" is a weird phrase. Despite all their superpowers, women aren't like Tolkien's elves who can will a person's conception.
Kevin Jones | Homepage | 06.30.08 - 3:43 pm | #

I also liked the first sentence under "The Clothesline"-"In an hour and 15 minutes, the Earth receives as much energy in the form of sunlight as humans officially use in a year."
But it is settled science that any warming is because of human activity, the sun has nothing to do with it.
Terentia | 06.30.08 - 4:31 pm | #

"...three of the most serious problems facing humans: sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies and population growth."

This writer MUST be Catholic; those people are positively FIXATED on pelvic issues! [/sarcasm]
Michael in ArchDen | Homepage | 06.30.08 - 5:31 pm | #

I grew up, in church & youth-group, with one of the senior staff members at this Sightline Institute. While we aren't in touch now, I've surmised that he's since strayed from the faith, substituting environmentalist doctrine instead. As children, we were good friends (who both memorized entire books of the Bible, no less); I wonder now if he'd even be happy for me on the birth of my son. Sad.
A. Campbell | 06.30.08 - 6:50 pm | #

I have issues with people who think other people are a waste of oxygen.

Discarded condoms cannot spread HIV. HIV is easily destroyed by exposure to air or light and the virus dies outside the body within two minutes maximum.
kentuckyliz | Homepage | 07.01.08 - 12:02 am | #

Discarded condoms sometimes turn up in your lunch:

http://thenewcurrencylad.blogspo...ather- dine.html
Louise | Homepage | 07.01.08 - 12:37 am | #

This is a testimony to my personal strangeness. I read that headline and thought, "How did they prove this? Porky likes to wear a skirt?" It took me a couple of seconds to figure out what the deal was...
Fr. Shane Tharp | 07.01.08 - 7:47 am | #

Does anyone have any non-anecdotal evidence that the amount of trash left behind from the gay pride parade is significantly greater than the amount of trash left behind from another parade of comparable size? Because otherwise, why would anyone expect the local press to comment on it?
Michael | 07.01.08 - 12:09 pm | #

"the course of its life"

Says it all.
SecretAgentMan | Homepage | 07.06.08 - 5:03 pm | #