If we have enough vested interests to send people to war, buy an iPhone or spend time looking for a job, then we should have enough interest to invest in our education system.
Apparently no one got that memo.
Decades of improving technology led to the iPhone, the iPod, the Wii, and yet we can’t even improve sexual education in this country long enough to realize that the birth of the seven billionth person — two years earlier than projected by the United Nations — is not an achievement, but rather a mass rape of our resources and underuse of our intelligence.
According to the Association for the Advancement of Science, the average person living in our country will consume 111 kilos of meat — three times the worldwide average — while a billion others go hungry.
It makes sense. The general rule of thumb is that the top 20 percent of the world’s population has been known to consume 80 percent of the world’s resources, leaving those in developing countries struggling to support their growing families. The funny thing is, as far as growing is concerned, developing countries seem to be adopting family planning methods faster than the United States and, although their populations are increasing, the rate at which they’re doing so has changed dramatically.
As noted by World Overpopulation Awareness, the average Indian woman is now having 2.6 children, down from six in 1950.
The Guttmacher Institute, a leading researcher in the advancement of sexual and reproductive health, recognizes that of all the developed countries, the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancies, more than twice that of our frosty neighbor Canada or even Sweden.
And while most of the population is sitting, scratching their greedy faces, wondering what we can do to fix our problems, they’re missing the big, neon billboard sitting right in front of them.
It’s blinking the words “family