Saturday, November 28, 2009
Women bear brunt of 'climate change'?
Women bear brunt of 'climate change'?
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 11/24/2009 7:00:00 AM
www.onenewsnow.com
A United Nations group that promotes abortion has released some controversial recommendations concerning "global warming."
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), birth control and access to family-planning facilities can be a valuable weapon in the fight against supposed "climate change." The UNFPA sites overpopulation as one of the factors in the earth's "capacity to adjust" to climate change.
In an article published on GMANews.tv, a representative from the Philippines notes that climate change could affect women the worst, as women in that country might be driven into the sex trade as climate change reduces income from farming and fishing. The Fund uses this scenario to justify its call for the distribution of birth control and its call to slow population growth.
James Taylor, a senior fellow and environment policy expert with The Heartland Institute, labels the UNFPA's recommendations "preposterous."
"Even if we were facing a global-warming [crisis], the problem wouldn't be so much that we have too many people -- the problem would be...that we need to utilize our energy in a more efficient manner," he explains.
Improved energy efficiency, he continues, "can certainly be done without encouraging people to get abortions or to have infanticide like they do in China or to seek to limit human population. Human beings are a tremendous resource -- and [they] are not the problem on the planet."
Taylor contends the U.N. Population Fund is trying to link its radical agenda to alleged climate change only to gain support from environmentalists and to use the elite liberal media to get their message across. The Fund, however, admits that it is hard to link the two issues.
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 11/24/2009 7:00:00 AM
www.onenewsnow.com
A United Nations group that promotes abortion has released some controversial recommendations concerning "global warming."
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), birth control and access to family-planning facilities can be a valuable weapon in the fight against supposed "climate change." The UNFPA sites overpopulation as one of the factors in the earth's "capacity to adjust" to climate change.
In an article published on GMANews.tv, a representative from the Philippines notes that climate change could affect women the worst, as women in that country might be driven into the sex trade as climate change reduces income from farming and fishing. The Fund uses this scenario to justify its call for the distribution of birth control and its call to slow population growth.
James Taylor, a senior fellow and environment policy expert with The Heartland Institute, labels the UNFPA's recommendations "preposterous."
"Even if we were facing a global-warming [crisis], the problem wouldn't be so much that we have too many people -- the problem would be...that we need to utilize our energy in a more efficient manner," he explains.
Improved energy efficiency, he continues, "can certainly be done without encouraging people to get abortions or to have infanticide like they do in China or to seek to limit human population. Human beings are a tremendous resource -- and [they] are not the problem on the planet."
Taylor contends the U.N. Population Fund is trying to link its radical agenda to alleged climate change only to gain support from environmentalists and to use the elite liberal media to get their message across. The Fund, however, admits that it is hard to link the two issues.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Quotes
"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls --the worst man is as strong as the best at that game;it does not depend on what kind of paperyou drop into the ballot-box once a year,but on what kind of man you drop from your chamberinto the street every morning."
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.DB19
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look at his character. It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, men of truth, hating covetousness. It is to the neglect of this rule that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, speculations and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves; which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."
-- Noah Webster (1758-1843)
American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Noah.Webster.Quote.A82D
"Choice by the people themselves is notgenerally distinguished for its wisdom."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: 1776, Jefferson’s Literary Commonplace Book, Wilson, ed., 1989, p. 11.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.3488
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.DB19
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look at his character. It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, men of truth, hating covetousness. It is to the neglect of this rule that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, speculations and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves; which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."
-- Noah Webster (1758-1843)
American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Noah.Webster.Quote.A82D
"Choice by the people themselves is notgenerally distinguished for its wisdom."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: 1776, Jefferson’s Literary Commonplace Book, Wilson, ed., 1989, p. 11.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.3488
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