A Project for a New Global Future

Can someone please enlighten me as to why so many resources are put into trying to figure out how to ensure that as many people as possible can reproduce?  Some reckless UK scientists have claimed to create sperm from human stem cells for the eventual purpose of helping infertile men have children.

Isn’t it bad enough that women who should not be having children have fertility treatments?  Now we have them for men.  As scientists, more should be done to research ways to reduce population growth instead of looking for ways to make the most money and gain fame.  This makes them no better than common whores.  In fact, worse than whores because at least whores typically use contraceptives.

The only silver lining in this story is that other experts are challenging the results, pointing out that the sperm is abnormal.   One can only hope that after their peers review the results, it will prove to be a big enough failure that they lose their funding.  Funding that could be put to much better use by someone doing some real good for the world, like ways to reduce the population.

Today, Oxfam International released a glowing report of the future to the G8 which is meeting in Italy this week.

It says that as the weather changes, millions of people in areas suffering food scarcity will have to give up traditional crops, possibly leading to social upheavals such as mass migrations and possible conflict over water resources.  The report also went on to mention that corn crops could be widely affected by global warming.  Potentially removing a primary food source for 250 million people.

However, the news is not all good.  The most disappointing part of the report says that only 60% of the world’s agricultural potential is exploited and that with modern farming techniques the world has a good chance of supporting the estimated 9.2 billion people that will inhabit this earth by 2050.  We can only hope that they are wrong.