Video: Guy with four kids endorses “fertility management” to save the planet
posted at 5:55 pm on June 22, 2011 by Allahpundit
Via Breitbart TV and the Daily Caller. At first listen, I thought what he had in mind here was making contraception more freely available in some developing nations where women are expected to have lots of children. “Educate girls and empower women,” he says (but not men?); good advice, and there are lots of places around the world where it’s desperately needed. But if it’s developing nations he’s thinking of, that wouldn’t do much to curb pollution or emissions. It’s the first-world nations that do most of the industrial belching, and needless to say, China doesn’t need any tips on “fertility management.” So I guess he means … American women? Or someone else? Whatever the answer, he clearly means someone other than the Gore family since he and Tipper almost doubled the ol’ replacement rate. But then, for the Goracle, saving the planet has always been mostly a “you first” proposition. At least he’s consistent.
Plus, in fairness, by the standards of green true believers, the form of population control he’s thinking of here is pretty tame. Exit question: What role should abortion have in this planet-saving scheme of “fertility management”?
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Hey Al, how about ensuring you don’t have anymore problems releasing your “second chakra” through some elective surgery?
teke184 on June 22, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Ok Al which one of your four Children shall we sacrifice ?
sandee on June 22, 2011 at 5:58 PM
Leftist men are so patronizing of women.
mankai on June 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM
In a perfect world, none. I sincerely hope that’s not what Gore is talking about, but it sure sounds like it.
Doughboy on June 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM
I agree that Gores should not be allowed to further breed.
perries on June 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Save the planet for what? More specifically, for who?
yubley on June 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM
zeig heil big al…
no government intrussion if off limits to this toolbox
DrW on June 22, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Gore is only talking about one facet of the combined-arms approach to saving the planet.
Take his ideas about “fertility management”, combine them with Ayers notion of death camps for the unworthy, sprinkle in a bit of PBHO’s children-are-burdens rhetoric, and presto magico! the Earth is saved.
Bishop on June 22, 2011 at 6:00 PM
The Goreacle needs an Brain Vasectomy.
Bruno Strozek on June 22, 2011 at 6:01 PM
So he is saying that the reason he had 4 kids is that his wife was uneducated?
pedestrian on June 22, 2011 at 6:01 PM
If America has an overpopulation problem it’s only because we’re being overrun my illegal aliens.
FloatingRock on June 22, 2011 at 6:02 PM
The Bloated Carcass of the failed party of the F/K/A Democrats spews his advice.
“Kill your children. Save the Planet.”
Question: Save the Planet from what? You and your ilk?
/Bloated Carcass
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:02 PM
Loch Ness Monster, without the Loch Ness.
Schadenfreude on June 22, 2011 at 6:02 PM
Gore invokes Prima Nocta.
Must be tough hiring enough hot oil masseuses who work part time at Sea World.
Roy Rogers on June 22, 2011 at 6:02 PM
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
Good ad at their site.
fourdeucer on June 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM
Europe’s population is in decline.
Gore and Obama like the Muzzie invasion and conversion.
Schadenfreude on June 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM
Oddly enough, his actions are more respectable than his words. The US is in trouble if we don’t increase our birth rate, particularly for those well off.
Count to 10 on June 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM
Like the bigoted leftist he is, he’s of course referring to people of color in less-than-developed countries. He certainly doesn’t expect the Beverly Hills crowd to curtail reproduction.
CurtZHP on June 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM
NO! NO! and HELL NO!
Always trying to take our freedom.
Oil Can on June 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM
I would like Al Gore to live in a tent, on a mosquito infested bayou in the middle of Louisiana for three days.
They’d eat him alive and that feat would save our Planet by eliminating, forever, the carbon footprint of the Goracle. Bite, by bite, by bite. Yummy human blood.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:05 PM
No, Al.
When the Climate-acolypse comes, I will need many many children to feed myself. In fact, you look like you have a couple of tender cuts riding your flank. (smacks lips)
Aquateen Hungerforce on June 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Al Gore came out of hiding.
Schadenfreude on June 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Ugh, everytime this topic comes up I always picture scenes from those creepy movies that take place in the future where it all seems like it’s the perfect world … until you dig down and see that it’s actually a nightmare.
Tony737 on June 22, 2011 at 6:07 PM
Sounds like he’s not getting his Shakra released, and getting a bit cranky.
PappyD61 on June 22, 2011 at 6:07 PM
Too late for the idiot… does that mean we have to spay and neuter his 4 children?
What a dumb@ss…
Khun Joe on June 22, 2011 at 6:08 PM
We all know that Global Warmingchange is just a gambit for Central Planning.
TexasDan on June 22, 2011 at 6:09 PM
We must ALL die so that Al Gore and his second chakra can repopulate the earth… in his own image!!!
abobo on June 22, 2011 at 6:09 PM
Eugenics.
John the Libertarian on June 22, 2011 at 6:09 PM
When is eugenics just going to f**k off?
MadisonConservative on June 22, 2011 at 6:09 PM
This is about abortion more than anything.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/06/al-gore-wants-families-to-have-fewer-children-china-anyone-video.html
I am sure Al Gore admires China’s one child policy just maybe not the way they implement it.
Blue Collar Todd on June 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Thank you SC for not allowing this to be on TV, for years, constantly.
Schadenfreude on June 22, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Okay, ewe.
/Phoebe from Friends.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM
NONE!!!! Absolutely, NONE!!!!
capejasmine on June 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM
If overpopulation is the problem, shouldn’t we be happy that people are starving to death all over the planet?
lorien1973 on June 22, 2011 at 6:12 PM
There is something ungodly about preaching that human beings are polluters and planet killers by dint of their very existence. The subject of whether some people shouldn’t have children because they are, say, unmarried teens without a job is an entirely different topic altogether – but it has to do with personal responsibility not pollution.
Buy Danish on June 22, 2011 at 6:12 PM
What a bloated poisonous toad he’s become.
rrpjr on June 22, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Greens are. They are also happy 2-3 million die from malaria in Africa each year.
Real twisted folks, them.
Aquateen Hungerforce on June 22, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Population control? I think this is a great idea and sincerely hope that all liberals take his advice and begin implementing these controls immediately.
Rod on June 22, 2011 at 6:13 PM
I think Al Gore should volunteer to show us how to go “green”. By living in a swamp, in an Indian Reservation off of Alligator Alley down in S. Floriduh for eh… 24 hours.
They have public restrooms, Al. Come on down… give your “green life” a try in the greenish swamps off Alligator Alley. If the gator’s don’t git ya, them squito’s will. You can release your.. uh.. wha? right there on the side of the road, where roadkill gits pickdeded up.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM
I’ll take Ruling Class Hypocrisy for $1,000, Alex.
Cicero43 on June 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Coming from a guy who wants to release his Chakra with every female he meets.
darwin on June 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM
ROFL!!!
capejasmine on June 22, 2011 at 6:16 PM
As somebody who flies across the country everyday at work and spends a lot of time looking out the window from 40,000 ft … I can assure you, the world is NOT overpopulated. Maybe Calcutta is, maybe Hong Kong is, but the the planet is not, especially the USA.
Tony737 on June 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Only the foolish follow their message. That is 23% of the population, 13% of which are welfare womb to tomb recipients. They follow the moneys. The other 10% are insane.
And, we have to accommodate their wishes? I think not.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Algore still wears black because he believes it to be slimming.
When you are 300# nothing can save you.
carbon_footprint on June 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM
I wonder how his chakra is doing?
carbon_footprint on June 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM
His chakra made him do it.
Skipper50 on June 22, 2011 at 6:19 PM
I suggest that he euthanize the son who has the drug and alcohol problems.
Blake on June 22, 2011 at 6:19 PM
What did Tipper know and when did she know it . . .
BigAlSouth on June 22, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Is the interviewer scowling because Al’s wearing the same outfit?
Dusty on June 22, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Al Gore has worked hard to be the least intelligent, least ethical and least likable human being to ever exist and we should all give him the respect these qualities deserve.
NoDonkey on June 22, 2011 at 6:23 PM
I hear he’s been releasing his second chakra via texting these days. They call it chakresting.
TXUS on June 22, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Sounds like the newly single Algore wants to have sex with many young women but not have any more children. Algore? Just go and get snipped and leave the rest of us alone…
Fallon on June 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM
No one said it, so I will: “Kids for me but not for thee.”
BuckeyeSam on June 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM
I remember back when the population was 5 billion, and the libs were freakin’ out about it, there was a study done by some group on this ‘overpopulation’.
They took the number 5 billion, averaged out the family unit size as 5 per family, which is 1 billion families of 5 each, gave each family a quarter acre of land. That’s 250 million acres. That’s about the size of Texas. The entire population of the Earth could live in Texas!
Tony737 on June 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM
OT:
NMRN123 on June 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Malthusian Melodrama.
blatantblue on June 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Hmmm.. Regarding my above post, perhaps they are encouraging the elimination of the womb to tomb welfare recipients?
How racist.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Tipper must be getting some new chakra
Roy Rogers on June 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Too bad his parents didn’t have this epiphany.
hawkdriver on June 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Everyone goes to Carousel when they hit 30.
vcferlita on June 22, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Too bad his parents didn’t have this epiphany.
hawkdriver on June 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM
I’m with you. I can’t stomach the sight of this Penguin-esque fool.
And I mean the penguin from batman.
blatantblue on June 22, 2011 at 6:32 PM
I have never taken Al Gore seriously, and I never will. He is an assclown, pure and simple.
pilamaye on June 22, 2011 at 6:32 PM
What a freaking hypocrite! But that’s nothing new with Al.
GarandFan on June 22, 2011 at 6:33 PM
This is Al Gore promoted abortion (again), albeit in an underhanded fashion (though that method now characterizes Gore), particularly after growing exposure of the continued and growing numbers of abortions in China “by state order” of many a female human being (gender-based abortion, eugenics, in other words, as is most of what abortion is and why it’s done but China has taken the practice to new depths).
I contribute to the support of 21 children, have never applied any “gender” or race (nor ethnicity) “test” to evaluate their worth-for-life, and the idea ought to be among us all to value human life, not to devalue it nor to consider life expendable under all circumstances except the protection of life (self defense, the defense of others, society defending itself and others).
ONE THING MORE, though, and people such as Al Gore utterly omit the entire issue of the involvements and responsibilities of men in these “population concerns”: without men, there’d be no population eventually.
Male behavior should be a key aspect of all these discussions, the looney and the decent, because so far, it’s all about “women and girls” as if we’re somehow engaging in immaculate conceptions. Abortion and eugenics entirely targets female and female behaviors, while, indeed, omitting the behaviors by males (both should be discussed and addressed, not limited to females only) (and promoting “it’s a woman’s choice” as to abortion is part of that misleading — and Gorian, Leftwing, eugenics — process).
Little to no role. It’s a barbaric act by barbarian, irresponsible people, including as promoted by Al Gore among them.
Lourdes on June 22, 2011 at 6:33 PM
You are correct, these overpopulation types are the same ones that want the government to take all the land and preserve it for the none existing human race they support.
fourdeucer on June 22, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Of course not, but keep in mind that one can’t graduate from some high schools in some states without taking courses in the “environmental literacy”. Young minds full of mush can be told that they should limit their offspring so as not to kill the planet.
Buy Danish on June 22, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Kermit Godsell was funded by the democratic funded Planned Parenthood and was responsible for the deaths of unknown numbers of future American Citizens.
Women died. Al Gore likes this.
Vote Democrat 2012
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:37 PM
The earth could probably support 100 times more people… and they’d probably be better for it.
theperfecteconomist on June 22, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Stop global warming by shutting your big fat pie hole.
Kuffar on June 22, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Algore apaprently supports aborting female babies in order to reduce the number of potential breeders.
malclave on June 22, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Well, that’s in the present world. In 2012 the teachers unions will be completely defunded and State’s Rights will rule again. You know, like “pre-Jimmah Cartah”, when students actually learned and Teachers had no agenda.
Yeah.
Key West Reader on June 22, 2011 at 6:39 PM
Waiting for the “windfall tax” on Gore’s carbon credit profits.
Roy Rogers on June 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM
It’s not only females’ lives Gore’s targeting, it’s BLIND PEOPLE’s!
Lourdes on June 22, 2011 at 6:43 PM
I guess China is clueless, then, on how those breeders breed and by whom they are breeding.
Lourdes on June 22, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Al Gore’s rationalizations, as also China’s:
“Breed” then throw her away!
Lourdes on June 22, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Even more fitting? Send him to live in that tent in the middle of ANWR in late June and July.
Of course, knowing Algore, he would probably bring along a dozen Mosquito Magnets.
Del Dolemonte on June 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM
FIFY
iurockhead on June 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Inventing the Internet was tough enough without all of Tipper’s haranguing.
Roy Rogers on June 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Trying to rationally analyze what Gore must mean logically? Isn’t that a recreational impossibility, like walking through mountains or trying to get the Brantisvogan Civil Service to acknowledge a change of address form?
tom on June 22, 2011 at 6:59 PM
Unions, or no unions, Blue and Purple states will continue to make this a part of the curriculum. That and “community service”…
Buy Danish on June 22, 2011 at 6:59 PM
Uhm, we already have “fertility management”, its just that women get to manage their own fertility. What he is really talking about is GOVERNMENT fertility management where someone in government gets to decide if you can have a child or not. Of course, all the “correct” people will be able to have children but people of the wrong political persuasion are likely to be “managed”.
crosspatch on June 22, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Its never been about ‘Saving the Planet.’
Its about controlling those who live on it.
catmman on June 22, 2011 at 7:11 PM
If Space Aliens do exist, and one day arrive en-masse to check out who we are and where we currently reside on the whole “can we trust these guys with sharp objects?” scale, we are doomed. They will observe our ‘patriotic’ millionaires who beg for higher taxes after they’ve already made their millions, and listen to this four-kid-having, giant-carbon-footprint-spewing, mansion-living gassbag Al Gore telling the world to ‘simplify/reduce/reuse’ with a straight face…
And then they’re going to say, “That’s a wrap,” and blast our dumb a$$es into space vapor…
CaptFlood on June 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM
This moron would have been worse than odumbo. What an absolute waste of good air.
ultracon on June 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM
Isn’t the US birthrate already pretty low? Europe’s also?
JavelinaBomb on June 22, 2011 at 7:26 PM
What really irks me when liberal men talk about “fertility management” is that they operate under the assumption that women will still be sexually available to them. Their method of “fertility management” is never to keep their own pants zipped up; it’s to treat women’s fertility, and the natural results of sexual intercourse between two young, healthy people, as a disease.
If anyone were capable of checking out population growth charts, they would understand that telling Americans to manage their fertility is the equivalent of those “coexist” bumper stickers: no matter how nice the sentiment, it’s simply not aimed at the appropriate audience. Americans are very close to that magic 2.1 children per woman that is needed to create population stability.
As a final thought: anyone who wants Social Security to stay stable, without raising the retirement age or cutting benefits, should be out there begging young women to get knocked up and haranguing young men to marry them, enough already with “finding yourself” in a haze of pot smoke. Pyramid schemes and “zero population growth” are mutually exclusive enterprises.
Roxeanne de Luca on June 22, 2011 at 7:28 PM
Does Algore practice anything that he preaches?
disa on June 22, 2011 at 7:29 PM
A few weeks ago I went to my daughter’s school talent show & was amazed that every child in the room was decked in out retro-80′s gear — bangles, bracelets & fluorescent clothes. I almost had a flashback.
Now I read online about a coming mini-ice age (global cooling) and Gore’s advocating for the return of eugenics & population control. Time to dust off my copy of Future Shock.
Give it a few more weeks & I’ll have a yellow armband on. Mama, where’d you put the bullets?
RationalIcthus on June 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM
The numbers suggest only moosies and 3rd world sewer nations have giant @ss birth rates, so as long as it restricts them it may not be a bad idea. As it is EU and US populations are at historically low birth rates.
Alden Pyle on June 22, 2011 at 7:34 PM
You can tell Gore is still convinced the seas will rise. He’s wearing flood pants!
liberty0 on June 22, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Absolute hypocite.
KMC1 on June 22, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Fatso needs to lay off the cheeseburgers and fries.
GarandFan on June 22, 2011 at 7:45 PM
“Exit question: What role should abortion have in this planet-saving scheme of “fertility management”?’
Retroactive abortions are the answer. Starting with Al Gore and including all leftwingers. That should take care of about 3 billion. Then we’ll have clean nuclear energy and real conservationists, not watermellon tree huggers who aren’t serious about a clean environment, only in socialist politics.
JimP on June 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Video no longer available. Pulled by “the user”.
44Magnum on June 22, 2011 at 7:57 PM
He looks super cereal.
greggriffith on June 22, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Women are there for babies…it’s all there fault…basically his beliefs.
right2bright on June 22, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Gore is just a creep.
Captain Kirock on June 22, 2011 at 7:59 PM
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