Planet In Peril (CNN Special)
Did anybody watch this on CNN? I thought it was a great 4 hour show on our climate change that is currently taking place. I thought Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Jeff Corwin from the Animal Planet did a great job putting this show together. They went to places all over the world and showed just how bad things are getting on Earth now.
There is no simple solutions to these problems, but the main problem I see is over population. I think everything goes back to this and instead of focusing on global warming and finding ways to reduce our carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, we should stop population growth. That might seem a bit extreme, but I would rather be a little extreme than not having a planet to live on. We need to make changes and they need to start now. It’s up to the politicians to start putting laws in place to help with our climate change problems we are having.
I would suggest in 2010 that all girls and boys born in the USA would have some sort of surgery at birth, to prevent them from having children. That might seem a bit harsh and cruel, but it’s enough time for parents to plan their births in our country. It would last for the entire year of 2010 and every child born in that year, would be fix from having children. Do the same thing in 2015 and when 2020 gets here, I would extend it for 2 years then. 2020 to 2022 you would fix all children in those years from having any more children in the future. This process would happen again in 2030 to 2032. Just keep going every 10 years and for any parent or person that didn’t agree with these new laws, could just not have children in those selected years. This would help the USA out tremendously and would slow our rapid population growth that we have now.
My idea might seem far-fetched, but it’s either something of this magnitude or we are going to start a World War again and people will be fighting over all the Earth’s resources that man has been misusing for all these years. We have to do something now and slowing down our population growth has to be the top thing on the list!
