{"id":381,"date":"2009-09-09T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:40:36","slug":"copulation-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/09\/copulation-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"copulation blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news &#8211; this just in from the folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/environment\/climatechange\/6161742\/Contraception-cheapest-way-to-combat-climate-change.html\">Telegraph (UK)<\/a>: &#8220;Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No kidding! Five times cheaper? And think of the diapers you don&#8217;t have to wash. (Can we still wash diapers? Is that green?)<\/p>\n<p>Lest uber-conservatives get their nappies in a wad, the report goes on to say that &#8220;40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>What the London School of Economics doesn&#8217;t mention is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrying_capacity\">carrying capacity<\/a> as a function of ecological well-being. Do the math before jumping to conclusions. Better yet, run a few <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lotka-Volterra_equation\">Lotka\u2013Volterra equations<\/a>, assuming you enjoy piddling with trigonometric functions.  <\/p>\n<p>Or, as the old saw says, &#8220;Copulate, don&#8217;t populate!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news &#8211; this just in from the folks at the Telegraph (UK): &#8220;Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics.&#8221; No kidding! Five times cheaper? And think of the diapers you don&#8217;t have to wash. (Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}