Friday, November 23, 2007

SAVING THE PLANET ONE CHILD AT A TIME

I was glancing at Drudge this morning and saw an article describing a woman who had herself sterilized to avoid any chance having children.

Of course it is not uncommon to have this done in the modern world but what is unusual about this particular case is that the woman announced to the world that the reason she decided to preclude the possibility of having children was that she did not wish to burden the earth's resources with yet another human/consumer.

The young woman named Toni Vernelli, an eco-warrior of the first order, represents the beginnings of a phenomenon that will likely burgeon in the next 20 years. More and more young people are emerging from education systems that have bent every educational discipline to include a hyper-sensitization to the ecological impact that humans have. This bombardment on the impressionable minds of the young will likely cause an increasing number of people to discard the idea of having children for the sake of preserving the resources of the Earth.

After a large enough sector of the population decides to sacrifice their own procreation for the sake of the planet, it is likely that an atmosphere of taboo will surround any decision to have children and offspring will be viewed as an evil to be stamped out.

It is not certain that the present examples of eco-sterilizations represent a true change in humanity's view of procreation but here is my reasoning that suggests that it does:

• One of the women in question is 27 years old which means that she started grade one in 1986 and emerged from high school in 1998
  
• Going through high school in the 90's meant that one had to ingest the first wave of hyper-environmentalism that was being propagated. The 27 year old sterilized woman is a product of the environmentalism of the 90's
  
• Hyper-environmentalism has only become more stringent and pervasive since that time and so the youth emerging from high school now will have ingested the 2005-2006-Al-Gore eco-religion

This progression leads me conclude that we are going to see a large wave of sterilizations of 25-27 year old women and men as they emerge from the modern enviro-sensitizing high schools.

One could extrapolate from experience what political action would follow the sterility revolution in our society. It is possible to imagine the government power being used to mandate and provide sterilization. I can imagine a land where nearly everyone is sterilized and only a worthy few are licensed to have children.

Prior experience with the eco-movement has shown us this tendency.

Here is an example: Recycling plastic was something done by the Volvo-driving, granola-eating, nature-walking people who wanted to enrich their lives with activities that made them feel like they were giving back to the earth. In some jurisdictions, this niche activity found its way into the halls of power and it quickly became a government-mandated imposition on all people with in that jurisdiction whether they believed it was a beneficial activity or not.

Back to the subject at hand, this would not be the first time that human societies have rejected procreation whole scale.

History is littered with the remnant of societies that abandoned child bearing and rearing which resulted in the weakening and even extinction of those societies. Rome, the epicenter of the Roman empire is but one example of a society that abandoned child bearing and rearing as a standard human activity. The resulting hollowing out of their population (along with other factors no doubt) ended up in the ruination and collapse of the empire.

The only difference between circumstances in the past and this current looming wholesale sterility is that in the modern age, technology makes it possible to completely sterilize every human being within society whereas in the past, crude or non-existent birth control methods always allowed for some children to get through the gates.

Our modern trend to sterility may result in a strong downward spiral of the human population already markedly visible in parts of Europe and North America.

Who knows? Maybe I have hyped the whole thing.

Here is a link to the article.

posted by Wild 8:18:00 AM |

AM I BACK?

A few days ago, I walked into my office to put in another day when I noticed something had changed.

Something unusual had occurred between the time I left the day before and the time I got in that morning.

What had changed was that ideas were spontaneously flowing through my mind. They were not necessarily good ideas but they were definitely creative ideas.

I was taken aback by the familiar but long missing sense of mental activity of a particular kind that allows blogging to happen.

Some of you who know this blog may remember a time when I had postings almost daily covering all manner of curious things. You may also remember when all the posting petered off as the fountain of ambition and creativity dried up. As desperately as I wanted to blog, I simply could not bring myself to publish the vile drivel that I was struggling to compose.

I had several false starts when I thought the ability to post had returned but these start-ups fizzled away.

Now, I feel a distinct change. The thought of posting an article is not causing me to feel nauseated nor does what I write seem terribly vulgar and revolting. I feel new again....like I could perhaps write a couple of good posts each a week.

Well..... here goes nothing...

posted by Wild 11:43:00 AM |

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