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In reply to the discussion: Tar sands....needs no words. [View all]BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)4. yes....it's like the ugliest scenes
out of Matrix or Hellraiser.
It's OVERPOPULATION, people!!!! Get a fucking clue, and quit fucking without protection. It's selfish in the most critical way to insist on breeding more and more replicas of yourselves. Human overpopulation is at the root of environmental degradation, resource depletion, and hosts of other crises the planet faces.
Legislating insurer paid contraception for women is one of the best things I've seen done that will help people in the US immediately, and also begin to halt the continuous flood of new humans (here in the country that uses more resources than any other).
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See post #5. The pic in the OP is a fabrication. Nobody who thinks critically will buy it.
Egalitariat
Mar 2012
#15
There is a more effective, and honest, way to make that argument than what is portrayed in that
Egalitariat
Mar 2012
#18
True...but if you want to argue for the project or even just pretend it isn't a big deal
TheKentuckian
Mar 2012
#13