africa fertility
Fertility clinics in Africa (because childless women are, y'know, demons)
Kampala has two, Nairobi one, and maybe a couple of others are operating, because the average African woman has 7 kids, and you're nothin' if you can't produce.
Washington Post
Kampala has two, Nairobi one, and maybe a couple of others are operating, because the average African woman has 7 kids, and you're nothin' if you can't produce.
The clinics offer an alternative to superstitious explanations of infertility and the dubious advice of traditional healers, whose cures include having women run naked in circles around a dead sparrow at night. Fertility doctors are also bringing to light an uncomfortable truth about a condition almost always blamed on women: that at least half the time, the problem is with the man.
Washington Post
Comments
You know, my wife and I are having difficulty conceiving, but there's a park next door that must have some sparrows.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 08/15/08 at 10:34 AM
http://www.rent-a-sparrow.com
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/15/08 at 01:06 PM
Congratulations Chase Ammatale, you're this weeks winner of the Scare-mongering Democrat Tool of the Week Award. You win what's in the box . . . nothing!
As to your first "point," perhaps one of the reasons gas is so high is because drilling is prohibited in many places where oil is readily available. Places, say, like the Alaskan wastes populated by mosquitoes and caribou. Or off- and on-shore in California. There are, of course, other reasons, some conservative (and some foolish) in nature, but the liberals bear responsibility as well.
Moving onwards, the supply of money is in no way tied to the supply of people. It makes no difference to the stock prices of Microsoft, for example, if an extra hundred million people live and die. Callous, but economically accurate.
A shortage of food and water on most of the continents on Earth? Poor santitaion and water supply? Eating dirt? Yup, just like last century. And the century before that. And before that, etc. This isn't something tied to the current population of the Earth, rather to climatic, economic, and distributive factors. Population may exacerbate it, but not cause it.
As to the population problem itself, I'd suggest reading some dystopian sci-fi from decades past. Or economic and political philosophy from centuries past. It's amazing how often the world is going to collapse because of population problems. Many of these population problems were suggested at levels that we have long since passed.
I'm in no way trying to justify the comments of AnUnSI, merely to point out that your own comments are about on the same level of biased political ranting, merely at the other end of the line. My own are of biased political nature as well (apolitical or antipolitical perhaps), though I delude myself that they're not quite ranting.
As to your first "point," perhaps one of the reasons gas is so high is because drilling is prohibited in many places where oil is readily available. Places, say, like the Alaskan wastes populated by mosquitoes and caribou. Or off- and on-shore in California. There are, of course, other reasons, some conservative (and some foolish) in nature, but the liberals bear responsibility as well.
Moving onwards, the supply of money is in no way tied to the supply of people. It makes no difference to the stock prices of Microsoft, for example, if an extra hundred million people live and die. Callous, but economically accurate.
A shortage of food and water on most of the continents on Earth? Poor santitaion and water supply? Eating dirt? Yup, just like last century. And the century before that. And before that, etc. This isn't something tied to the current population of the Earth, rather to climatic, economic, and distributive factors. Population may exacerbate it, but not cause it.
As to the population problem itself, I'd suggest reading some dystopian sci-fi from decades past. Or economic and political philosophy from centuries past. It's amazing how often the world is going to collapse because of population problems. Many of these population problems were suggested at levels that we have long since passed.
I'm in no way trying to justify the comments of AnUnSI, merely to point out that your own comments are about on the same level of biased political ranting, merely at the other end of the line. My own are of biased political nature as well (apolitical or antipolitical perhaps), though I delude myself that they're not quite ranting.
Posted by Darkness on 08/18/08 at 03:35 AM
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