Al Gore: Stabilize population to combat global warming
From the safety of the political sidelines, former Vice President Al Gore is venturing into a touchy topic, presenting his holistic view of how to curb the buildup of greenhouse gases warming the planet. Besides improving technology to reduce fossil fuel emissions, he is advocating "educating and empowering girls and women."
"That's the most powerful leveraging factor," Gore said in a speech Monday in New York. "When that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices."
Although not entirely spelled out in the speech, Gore's thinking goes this way: If women are confident their children will survive, and if they have access to "fertility management," and if they have the power to decide how many children they want and when to have them, the result would be stabilization of the global population.
As it stands now, demographers at the United Nations forecast that the world's population will hit 7 billion later this year, march past 9 billion in 2045 and exceed 10 billion by the end of the century. Nearly all of the growth is expected to come in poor nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Gore made his remarks at the eighth annual Games for Change Festival, a conference organized by those who want to promote the use of video games for social change.
Here's a jerky cam capture of the relevant bits:
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Sounds so 1930's Germany to me.
Posted by: taxpayer | June 22, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Since global warming virtually identical to the current warming has preceded each of the five previous ice ages, why do we think it will be different this time?
Posted by: Johne | June 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM
He used to just be nuts now he is getting frightening.
Posted by: Leon J. Swartzentruber | June 22, 2011 at 11:34 AM
I think most of Al Gore's previous nonsense is a large part of the perception of "global warming" but this is the real stuff that eventually deserves a Nobel Prize.
There is no greater problem on earth than too many people, bred by people that can not take care of them because somebody non-involved told them to "go and reproduce". This rat like overbreeding will be the end of us.
If Gore can get humans interested in population control.y hat is off to him.
Most people don't have the guts to tackle it or even mention it because of political correctness or religious zombiesm.
Posted by: roneida | June 22, 2011 at 11:32 AM
*cough cough* They have four children, Karenna (b. 1973), Kristin Carlson Gore (b. 1977), Sarah LaFon Gore (b. 1979), and Albert Gore III (b. 1982)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Marriage_and_family
Really, Mr. Gore, you are going to preach to the world about over-population while you have four children?
Oh wait, it's Al Gore, mister I fly everywhere on expensive carbon creating jets, i leave my lights on all the time at my house, but tell you how to deal with carbon emissions and how to be an environmentalist.
My goodness, this is becoming comical.
Posted by: Roman | June 22, 2011 at 11:32 AM
Gore's version of modern day eugenics?
Posted by: Lee Fox | June 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM
What he means is simple, poor, stupid people should not breed.
Posted by: nookly | June 22, 2011 at 11:21 AM
did Al Gore invent the video game too?
Posted by: glenn grab | June 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM
he should just stick to the midnight rub downs!!!
Posted by: gary | June 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM