Mouse Condoms?

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So You Wanna Stop a Massive Extinction? Wear a Condom

Matthew has written about the connection between population growth and climate change before. Improving access to family planning services and contraceptives, and ensuring that low income is no barrier to access, is crucial. But recently The Center for Biological Diversity took it a step further with its new Endangered Species Condom Project. All month long the organization will be handing out condoms which feature a series of six original artworks of endangered animals.


Through Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Condom Project, the organization will be handing out information along with specially ornamented condoms to bring attention to the connection between an exploding population and recent spikes in species extinctions. The human population doubled from 1 to 2 billion between the years 1800 and 1930 and then again by 1975 and today our population is at 6.8 billion, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. And it's no stretch to realize that's there's only so much space on the planet. And as we develop formerly unspoiled areas of land, we spread into delicate habitats and lead to massive extinctions rates. From the bison that used to spread all the way to West Virginia to the massive Caspian Tiger in the Middle East, and the Dodo bird in Mauritius, wondrous creatures are consistently going extinct due to human activity.

They should expand the concept to include all animals - lions, tigers, mice...depending on your mood or prowess.

All kidding aside, the population explosion and the sustainable level of human population rarely enters conversations concerning the ecological future of our planet and our race. It may be a touchy subject but a subject that must be addressed if we are to talk about survival.