The New Viagra’s A Bitter Pill For The ‘Overpopulation Lobby’
IN the Telegraph the talk is of a “wonder pill” that could “increase sex drive in women and men and outsell Viagra” is being developed by “scientists”.
The medication, which has the potential to boost fertility rates, is also believed to help aid weight loss.
More sex. More people. But not more fat people.
Asks Johann Hari in the Independent: Are there just too many people in the world? Is our planet over-stuffed with human beings? Are we breeding to excess?
Now sure about everybody else, but there are some people who aren’t breeding enough.
There’s an “overpopulation lobby”, says Johann.
“They say with a frown that this global swarming is driving global warming. How can you be prepared to cut back on your car emissions and your plane emissions but not on your baby emissions? Can you really celebrate the pitter-patter of tiny carbon-footprints?”
How can anyone who loves the planet and life have children? It is a view that is beyond parody. But Hari is not alone:
The philosopher John Gray calls our species “homo rapiens”. The founder of Earth First!, Dave Foreman, called us “Humanpox” and wrote: “The Aids epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population… If [it] didn’t exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent [it].”
And what of the former urban Environment Minister Michael ‘The Preacher’ Meacher, who told us: “We are the virus” infecting the Earth’s body - “this is the first time that a species has been at risk of generating its own demise”.
Who need pills for sex when the end of the world is nigh and it’s your last chance…
Posted: 19th, May 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Food & Fat, Global Warming Comments (22) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 20th, 2008 at 2:02 am
What the f*ck was all that about?
Apart from the masturbation, which I am overly familiar with, I understood nothing.
Mary Five-Fingers (don’t you just love a “woman” with a double-barrelled name), my faithful partner for over 40 years, has failed to get a grip, also.
Must-sleep-now.
OK - Just one more time..!
May 19th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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chenier Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Please don’t faint; as far as I know there is no protocol for endeavouring to haul someone back to virtual life, once they have toppled from their keyboards.
Gloria Smudd Says:
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Quick- get the Anorak-Gooseberry (TM) …
May 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Please don’t faint; as far as I know there is no protocol for endeavouring to haul someone back to virtual life, once they have toppled from their keyboards.
All that 103% accuracy is bound to catch up with you…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Leave the tongue-flicking alone, you could have the rest of your bad tooth out with just a bit too much of that. Has it been a dental-hell day? (hope not….faints)
May 19th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I meant Masturbatory Reprobaters..
Clearly, after a wild day at the work keyboard, with every keystroke 103% accurate, I clearly should not attempt any more typing and should retire for the night. The shame. Oh, the shame.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Well, this particular Muskirteer is worried about the sad lot of marmosets, helplessly dragooned into tongue-flicking and eyebrow raising, but other than that I’m fine.
A day in which I don’t destroy a tooth is a good day…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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Carmen Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Baby Anorak is all the proof you need of the sex and shooting up - less than slimming effect on Mrs Anorak for the gestation period though.
……………..
I don’t suppose for a moment the baby did get called Anna-Raquel. Hope baby, ma and pa are all enjoying their new life together.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I appear to have been promoted - which is an ominous sign in Anorakland, however, this oversight is bound to be corrected now that agw is back.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Urgh.
The shower is so much more hygenic…
May 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Masturbatory Retrobates, of course. How are you tonight, Muskirteers?
May 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Kitsch masturbators I think.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Do you mind?
We’re having a serious discussion here about the impending calamity.
And what are retrobaters?
May 19th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I’ve just got home, fed the kids, turned on the computer and took a wild guess at which thread you’d all be on! Right first time! Retrobaters!
May 19th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
And bear in mind that the wonder drug induces “tongue-flicking and eyebrow-raising”.
Do we really need more of that around here?
May 19th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
But Carmen,
Anorak does have daughters, think of him in 25 years time with the wedding bills (not a misspelling!)
May 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Well,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UWfq2wFhYmg
May 19th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Baby Anorak is all the proof you need of the sex and shooting up - less than slimming effect on Mrs Anorak for the gestation period though.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Carmen, dare I ask what Anorak has done enough already?
A broad answer along the lines of sex, slimming or shooting up would suffice…
May 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Not you Anorak, you’ve done enough already.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
‘”One of the next steps will be to produce a pill, as at the moment we can only inject, although surveys show many people, particularly men, are happy to inject and diabetics seems to manage it without too much trouble.’
Ok, so it makes you horny, it makes you slim, and you get to shoot up…
May 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Must …keep….going….
May 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
And this in National Masturbation Month, will we stay the pace?