The other day I was in the writing center at NAU helping a student on a research paper on global warming. Included in her paper was the picture at the other end of this link:
http://media.learningfundamentals.com.au/combating-global-warming-map.jpg
(I tried my best to put the picture on my blog but I no good computers not technology.)
Now isn’t that a nice picture? So pretty and friendly and wonderful. Yes, that picture shows us all the nice things each and every one of us can do to save our planet from the oncoming threat of global warming. The end to global warming starts one person at a time. We can change our light bulbs, ride bicycles, plant trees, have no more than two kids -
Wait… uh… what was that? Have no more than two kids?
(Do you see it? Follow the red line that says "use less" and goes down to the bottom of the picture and see where it says "have no more than two children")
That’s right folks, to stop global warming, we should cut back on reproduction. In fact, why don’t we all do even more to save the planet by have one kid instead of two? That would be even better for the planet, right?
Hey, what about having zero children? Perfect! Obviously having no children would be the most courageous thing adults could do to stop global warming from killing us all.
The math is simple:
0 children = 0 people in a hundred years or so = happy polar bears!
Yes, if only there were fewer people around, if we could cut the population down by, oh…, 95 % or so, global warming would just go away and never bother us again! Hooray!
Well, I suppose some people could still live on the planet and not contribute to global warming, like the indigenous peoples of the world who live in harmony with the earth- people that reject the Industrial Revolution and all its evils, people like the Amish… No, not the Amish. It’s cool the way they have a really small carbon footprint, but let’s face it, the Amish are just a bunch of self-righteous animal-exploiters!
In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic.
I don’t like them wacko-extremist environmentalists!
Yee-haw! I’m a cowboy!
Seriously though, isn’t that picture disturbing? I’m sure there are people who want the carbon emissions capped and there are people who want there to be tons of global laws coming from the UN or Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore to stop us from driving our cars too much and to stop us from using the wrong light bulbs. But maybe there are people who want to enforce laws about how many kids couples can have. And maybe those people are getting more and more powerful and influential and rich and maybe the United Nations Reproduction Police will come to neuter me after the birth of my second child! Yikes!
It’s a slippery slope, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a slippery slope.
One other disturbing thing about the picture. It comes from learningfundamentals.com.au. According to the “About” section of the website, Learning Fundamentals is an organization committed to making available to all students indispensable learning techniques in an enjoyable and interactive manner.” So I guess the good people of Learning Fundamentals go to schools to speak to schoolchildren about school things. You know, school things, like, math, English, studying techniques, and the joys of eugenics.
That’s right folks, to stop global warming, we should cut back on reproduction. In fact, why don’t we all do even more to save the planet by have one kid instead of two? That would be even better for the planet, right?
Hey, what about having zero children? Perfect! Obviously having no children would be the most courageous thing adults could do to stop global warming from killing us all.
The math is simple:
0 children = 0 people in a hundred years or so = happy polar bears!
Yes, if only there were fewer people around, if we could cut the population down by, oh…, 95 % or so, global warming would just go away and never bother us again! Hooray!
Well, I suppose some people could still live on the planet and not contribute to global warming, like the indigenous peoples of the world who live in harmony with the earth- people that reject the Industrial Revolution and all its evils, people like the Amish… No, not the Amish. It’s cool the way they have a really small carbon footprint, but let’s face it, the Amish are just a bunch of self-righteous animal-exploiters!
In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic.
I don’t like them wacko-extremist environmentalists!
Yee-haw! I’m a cowboy!
Seriously though, isn’t that picture disturbing? I’m sure there are people who want the carbon emissions capped and there are people who want there to be tons of global laws coming from the UN or Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore to stop us from driving our cars too much and to stop us from using the wrong light bulbs. But maybe there are people who want to enforce laws about how many kids couples can have. And maybe those people are getting more and more powerful and influential and rich and maybe the United Nations Reproduction Police will come to neuter me after the birth of my second child! Yikes!
It’s a slippery slope, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a slippery slope.
One other disturbing thing about the picture. It comes from learningfundamentals.com.au. According to the “About” section of the website, Learning Fundamentals is an organization committed to making available to all students indispensable learning techniques in an enjoyable and interactive manner.” So I guess the good people of Learning Fundamentals go to schools to speak to schoolchildren about school things. You know, school things, like, math, English, studying techniques, and the joys of eugenics.
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
Telemoonfa
3 comments:
I can't see the picture.
The Boid
Ala-quiffert!
I wanted to put the picture itself on my blog so bad, but, whatever. Hopefully the link works so you can see what I'm talking about.
man made global warming so man needs to stop global warming according to Al Gore. This is proof that for the first time in history people can be bulled by a Gore.
PP
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