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2nd step to save the world: Wear condoms

EndangeredSpeciesCondoms.com is hoping to encourage birth control as a means to slow extinction rates of thousands of animal species. Get your free condoms!

Fri, Feb 12 2010 at 4:50 PM EST

Image: Center for Biological Diversity
Humans are the most dominant species on Earth. Having claimed more than 50 percent of the Earth's landmass and 50 percent of its freshwater supply, our procreative success has threatened the existence of thousands of species, causing scientists to name this period of history the sixth mass extinction.
 
2010 has been officially declared the Year of Biodiversity with the goal of increasing awareness and protection of the most endangered species on Earth. Check out the website Countdown 2010 for more info on the U.N.'s target for biodiversity.
 
 
It's clear that the human population explosion is the greatest environmental problem our planet faces at the current moment, so the Center for Biological Diversity has created a great campaign that serves to drive the point home (so to speak) by handing out 100,000 condoms. An artist was commissioned to create colorful artwork for each condom pack. Check it out.
 
 
Visit EndangeredSpeciesCondoms.com to get your freebie or volunteer to hand them out!
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Uncle B 02/22/2010 10:10 AM

Mother Nature takes care of things her own way! The Great Hulking American Neanderthal - on whose shoulders this America was built! the muscle - men of past glories, the valiant soldiers the strong armed stronger backed, gentle giants that manned the "Smoke-Stack" industrial backbone of the American Empire, the long enduring high caloric intake meat eating breed that manned the Automotive production lines in days gone by - They stand today in the computer age, in "Unemployables" lines as they.... More

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Nina Pratt 02/12/2010 19:49 PM

I'm all in favor of men wearing condoms. But where should we women wear them? Earrings? Nose warmers?

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