The College Fix reports that a college professor is urging his students to kill sperm in order to save Gaia.
A renowned University of California-Riverside professor recently advised students to save Mother Earth, eat vegetarian, only have 1.5 kids – two at the most – take up social justice causes, and “lower your standard of living.”
Biology Professor Richard Cardullo – recently tapped by several federal agencies to assist with redeveloping how college students across the nation study life science – offered the advice to a room full of middle school students as part of the university’s online science lecture series, recorded on the campus earlier this year. A video of his talk is posted on YouTube.
He began his 50-minute lecture, “Is Earth Overpopulated,” by painting a picture that the planet doesn’t have the room or resources for more and more humans, yet that’s the direction in which it’s headed.
“What is the carrying capacity of the planet?” Cardullo said. “As the population goes up we are using more and more resources at a faster rate. … Most people think (Earth’s carrying capacity is) in the range of nine to 13 billion. And remember – no matter what we do – we believe we are going to be at nine billion by 2030 anyway.”
Apparently famine, disease and war do not have the ability to effectively roll back the burgeoning human population and save the planet’s resources, the professor noted.
“If you want to minimize environmental impact, perhaps you should consider lowering your standard of living, for instance,” Cardullo told the students.
But that won’t cut it entirely, he said.
“Ultimately … the argument is, we have got to do something about population as well. The United States, we are very affluent. … We currently have a population of 313 million people. … Altogether we gain one person every 15 seconds. … If we want to take the population down to 150 million, all it would require in the next 100 years is to lower that birth rate – because we are not going to do it through any other method, right? That would be horrible.”
Cardullo ultimately advocates family planning for the task.
“That means your generation and the next generation, if they are committed to doing this, would mean having family sizes that on the average are 1-and-a-half children, or two,” he said. “Some would have one, some would have two. It would be 50/50.”
Cardullo’s lecture then morphed into somewhat of a sexual education seminar, explaining to the students on a cellular level how sperm fertilizes an egg, and how scientists study new ways to stop that from happening.
“Sperm is a vector … which leads to increased populations, so many scientists want to know, ‘Are there new ways we can control population or fertility rates?’ … so individuals can make the decisions to keep those rates low,” he said. “We are talking about controlling human fertility.”
He cited Gossypol, a cotton derivative that can cause sterility in males, as something under scrutiny by the scientific research community. Apparently in large doses it has the unfortunate effect of killing people, however.
“That’s one form of birth control, but probably not a good one,” Cardullo said, then chuckled. “So ultimately the World Health Organization argued against using it. But interestingly enough, there are countries in the world (such as China now investigating) using it as a permanent method for controlling fertility in males, which is an option.”
An option? How nice.
September 18, 2012 at 4:39 pm
With reasoning like that, mass murder is kindness. Disgusting!
September 18, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Another reason to keep your kids out of public schools.
September 18, 2012 at 5:55 pm
It is "interesting" that some countries are using a method of controling population that might result in killing people? Gahhh.
September 18, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Does Richard Cardullo realize that he is considered a parasite on the skin of Mother Earth? and so a hypocrite as a high priest of Gaia wanting you to sacrifice and reverence him as somebody, when, in fact, he is preaching that all men are parasites on Gaia, starting with himself, the good professor Richard Cardullo.
September 18, 2012 at 7:12 pm
The U.S. has aborted 54 million taxpayers and military personnel, so we cannot buy our safety nor defend our lives. "with reliance on Divine Providence" America will go forward…from The Declaration of Independence
September 18, 2012 at 7:33 pm
*SIGH*
Once again, I give you basic math. (I do this every time this "human over population" BS gets bounced around.)
1 acre is approx the size of a football field without the end zones.
1/4 acre is 104 feet x 104 feet. Certainly big enough for a family of four with room for house, land, personal farming, etc. In other words, NOT cramped, congested or urbanized.
So, 16 people per acre at 640 acres per square mile is 10,240 people per sq mile.
There are approx. 6 billion people living on this planet.
6,000,000,000/10240 = 586,000 sq miles.
Texas is approx. 270,000 sq miles.
So, that means that the ENTIRE WORLD POPULATION can comfortable live in an area twice the size of Texas, leaving the rest of the world completely human-free.
In other words, Human Over Population = Bulls**t.
Class dismissed!
September 18, 2012 at 8:16 pm
"Kill sperm, save the planet."
Dang! I don't even use mine. Do I have to kill 'em, too??
September 19, 2012 at 9:54 am
@Trubador: there are actually 7 billion people now. Makes little difference though.
See, merely improving our current agricultural land (c. 9% of the planet's non-iced land surface) to the state of the art in 1984, would allow us to support 35 billion people at an American level of calory-intake—105 billion at a Japanese level.
And those people would require only 2.1% of the non-iced land surface for their actual living space, since back when there were 5 billion they only lived on .3%.
Put another way, human arrogance is doubtless tickled by the idea we're on the brink of reshaping this planet in our own image, even accidentally, but it isn't actually the case.
But let's cut this Richard Cardullo idiot some slack—he's a biologist, he doesn't necessarily know anything about social science stats, or economics. Modern science is so specialized that, outside his specialty, a typical scientist is a complete layman—see also Richard Dawkins, Oxford University's former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, not knowing the difference between gamma rays and cosmic rays. Because his actual training is in "behavioral entomology"—he's an ethologist.