Endangered Species Condoms
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The Center for Biological Diversity is at it again: distributing free Endangered Species Condoms to "highlight how unsustainable human population growth is driving species extinct at a cataclysmic rate."
"At 6.8 billion people, the human race is not only the most populous large mammal on Earth but the most populous large mammal that has ever existed," the center writes. This population problem has driven much of the planet to near-extinction:
• 12 percent of mammals
• 12 percent of birds
• 31 percent of reptiles
• 30 percent of amphibians
• 37 percent of fish
Hence, the condoms. To raise awareness about endangered species and our connection to them, and to help prevent people from personally contributing to the overpopulation crisis.
In all, 50,000 condoms will be distributed on New Year’s Eve throughout the country, the last of the planned distribution of 350,000 for the year in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.
The earth’s population has nearly doubled since the original Earth Day in 1970. In those days, it was well understood that human overpopulation was causing the many environmental challenges cropping up around the world. Now, with the passing of the 40th anniversary of the original Earth Day, unsustainable human population growth is too often ignored, even though it continues to drive all the major environmental problems that plague our planet.
Six species get their own condom: the snail darter, spotted owl, American burying beetle, jaguar, coquí guajón rock frog, and of course, the polar bear.
Image: Endangered Species Condoms
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