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Contracepting the environment - Birth-control poisoning of streams leave U.S. environmentalists mum
National Catholic Register
BOULDER, Colo. (National Catholic Register) - When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city's sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male and 10 were strange "intersex" fish with male and female features.
It's "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me," said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005.
They studied the fish and decided the main culprits were estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth-control pills and patches, excreted in urine into the city's sewage system and then into the creek... More...
The Pill as Pollutant
A really inconvenient truth Full article
...In 2004, for example, researchers on the Potomac River, downstream from Washington, D.C., found large-mouth bass that in most respects were males, but who had eggs in their sexual organs. Quite often when this happens to fish, they find themselves unable to reproduce. When it happens primarily to male fish, the fish population in general suffers.
The cause of intersexuality among fish, scientists speculate, is pollution in the water, particularly hormones. Why don't we have more outcries about hormones, and campaigns to save the fish populations? Why aren't environmentalists lobbying on Capitol Hill to keep these chemicals from being dumped into our rivers?
Maybe because the source of these chemicals is not some corporate polluter, but something a little more dear to the Left: human birth-control pills, morning-after pills, and abortion pills.
The environmentalists' silence on this topic and their willful distortions when they do talk about it show how, for many of them, the environment is more a tool for advancing favored policies than a real cause in itself...MORE...
Save the planet, kill a baby!
Sierra Club joins Planned Parenthood to offer conferences on "Sex and the Environment"
Full Article
In a question-and-answer section on the Sierra Club's web site discussing the Population and Environment Program, the group says it has endorsed a 1970 resolution drafted by the group Zero Population Growth. Among the provisions of the resolution: "families should not have more than two natural children," "state and federal laws should be changed to encourage small families and to discourage large families," "policies, and attitudes that foster population growth or big families, or that restrict abortion and contraception, or that attempt to constrict the roles of men and women, should be abandoned."
The Nov. 20 alternative weekly Sacramento News&Review reported on one of the Sierra Club/Planned Parenthood "Sex and the Environment" conferences. The conference covered by the weekly was held at the University of California, Davis, and featured a speaker from each organization. Speaking for the Sierra Club was Cassie Gardner. "Gardner's job was created to address the connection Sierra Club sees between sex and the environment: If you educate women about their reproductive rights, many will choose to have smaller families, which will slow population growth and subsequently slow resource depletion," the News&Review reported.
The birth rate collapse, the 21st century's biggest challenge
http://www.all.org/stopp/pop_rept.htm
The effects have been documented, not by a pro-life group whose bias can be questioned by the media, but by a man who is generally recognized as the foremost thinker on management techniques. His name is Peter F. Drucker, and he has been recognized as a management expert for the last 50 years.
"The most important single new certainty-if only because there is no precedent for it in all of history-is the collapsing birthrate in the developed world."
He describes how Japan and all of Southern Europe are "drifting toward collective national suicide by the end of the 21st century." He cites statistics to back up his contention and then observes that the United States is not far behind the other dying nations. He gives us another twenty to twenty-five years and then points out that our population will begin to seriously decline.
USA Today ran an item on April 12, 1999, which reported that "Lower Birthrate Drains Labor Pool." This article states that "from 1996 to 2006, the percentage of workers 25-34 will shrink nine percent, and those 35-44 will slip three percent." This is not the first time this paper has noted the problems caused by a lack of people in the work force; it is just the most recent.
Another source of specific information on the world population shortage is the United Nations. In October 1998, the UN issued its 1998 Revision of World Population Estimates and Projections. In that report, the UN stated that 61 countries now have a below-replacement birth rate. This is an increase of 20 percent in just two years.
To illustrate the impact of this declining birthrate, the UN documented that the median age of the world population (i.e. half the people are above the median age and half the people are below it) in 1950 was 23.5 years. The median age has increased modestly to 26.1 years in 1998. However, the UN currently predicts that, by the year 2050, the median age will be 37.8 years worldwide, and 47.4 years in Europe!
On March 1, 1999, the U.S. News & World Report did a major story that was titled: "How Global Aging Will Challenge the World's Economic Well Being."
This article is rife with statistics that illustrate the major population problems that the world faces. Some of the statistics presented in the article are:
How can you kill 1.5 million babies through surgical abortion in the United States every year and believe that you will not eventually have the problem of too few young people?
When you add to that the fact that approximately 50 million babies are killed in the world every year by surgical abortion, it becomes clear that the problems discussed by Drucker and others are inevitable.
Then you multiply these numbers by 26 years of legalized murder through abortion, you realize that we have lost 1.3 billion young people from our world. If these babies had been born, we would have a large number of young people driving the consumer market. We could plan on an expanding number of young people entering our work force, buying houses and cars and contributing to a growing world economy.
Perhaps the most obvious outcome of all the emerging population numbers is that it puts a lie to one of the most frequent claims of those who say they are "pro-choice."
These people say that abortion is a private decision between a woman and her abortionist. They claim that the decision does not affect anyone else and the rest of us should just keep our noses out of their business.
Now, after 26 years of legalized abortion, we see that this is simply not true. The decision to have an abortion affects the entire society. Because of the population shifts brought about by 26 years of legalized abortion in the United States and almost a century of pushing family planning programs around the globe, the impact on each person's daily life is clear.
Decling Birth Rates
No Easy Answers Around the World to Population Decline
The Scotsman (independent, moderate), Edinburgh, Scotland, October 15, 2004
http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/1979.cfm
Info on Japan, Germany, and Italy
JAPAN has known for the past five years the most serious threat to the nation: population free-fall.
The biggest single cause of declining birth rate is the growing number of people opting to stay single well into their 30's.
Men and women are marrying later and having just one or two children.
Japanese women now have an average of 1.34 children, one of the lowest rates in the world, well below the 2.08 needed to replenish the population.
German births decline to new low
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4793997.stm
Germany has seen another decline in its birth rate, which is Europe's lowest.
Economists say Europe's population decline threatens to damage economic growth for decades.