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Poll: Endangered-species condoms in O.C.?
February 11th, 2010, 8:38 am · 11 Comments · posted by Pat Brennan, science, environment editor
An environmental group that says reducing human population growth could help save endangered species will distribute 100,000 “endangered species condoms” across the nation on Valentine’s Day — including in Orange County. 
Volunteers will hand out the condom packages – each carrying an image of one of six endangered species along with catchy slogans – in bars, public events such as concerts, supermarkets, college campuses and other locations.
Among the images on the condom packages, which are free, is a polar bear with the slogan, “Wrap with care, save the polar bear,” along with five other threatened or endangered species: the jaguar, American burying beetle, snail darter, coqui guajon rock frog and spotted owl.
About 30 volunteers will pass out the condoms in Orange County. Cities include Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, Orange, Tustin, Yorba Linda and possibly other cities, said Randy Serraglio, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson.
The activist group, best known for filing lawsuits and taking other action to block development of natural habitat, also works to devise attention-getting public campaigns, such as offering downloadable endangered-species ring tones. 
“All of the major threats to the earth’s biodiversity – sprawl, logging, mining, dams, pollution, and climate change – are driven by human overpopulation,” Serraglio said Thursday in a statement on the launching of the campaign. “Our endangered species condoms are designed to capture peoples’ attention, get them laughing, and get them talking about the impact of overpopulation on our small and fragile planet.”
The effort did indeed get attention — in fact, the center’s staff was overwhelmed with volunteers to hand them out.
The center had hoped for 100 volunteers, but more than 3,000 signed up, outpacing the center’s first run of 100,000 condoms. A second batch of 100,000 will follow, Serraglio said.
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This is sick. Not that condoms are bad. But the reasoning behind this is disturbing and seems driven by sociopaths. Reduce the human population? That seems like a terrorist attitude.
I doubt if anyone would give a rats a$$ about endangered species but if someone uses one of these condoms and prevents an unwanted pregnancy that would result in an unwanted child or abortion then it’s all good.
Samhell, humans are an invasive species and there are way
too many.
You get to choose: war, famine, disease, or birth control.
And your abuse of the word terrorist just makes you look stupid.
Humans are an invasive species? Like ants or cockroaches? Way too many? According to who, you? How many humans is “enough”? What is the “appropriate” number of your fellow man?
And thanks for calling me stupid… that makes for an intelligent conversation now doesn’t it?
Yes, samhell, humans are invasive, like ants or cockroaches. There are too many of us. We seen to survive not only natural desasters, but also our own desire to kill one another.
And that’s according to me and anyone else who’s ever traveled around the world and saw the insane destruction that our species has bestowed upon this planet.
Is there an appropriate number? I don’t know what it would be, but I do know that it’s far less than it is now.
We can’t feed a giant number of our own species or house them in peace. And who suffers? The plants and animals of this little planet.
You know the proof that you’re wrong? The fact that 6.6 billion of us are still alive. Some may be starving, some may be sick, but they are living. So far, this is the amount Earth can sustain. You are arguing for quality of life. If not for humans than for animals. While I actually dislike most people, I wouldn’t want them destroyed to “save” some animals I could care less about. I don’t think there is a human population problem. There is a government problem, which always seems to be the case these days, in that they can’t properly manage their resources, but this has nothing to do with the numbers of humans on the Earth.
You seem to have an extremist point of view, favoring animals over humans (which I believe to just to be arguably more intelligent animals). This does nothing to further your cause and only makes you and your ilk seem like sociopaths, in a negative context.
The “animal kingdom” itself is no so nice, there is plenty of war famine and disease.
I’m going to stop off and buy my wife a nice fur coat for valentines day which will hopefully lead to more breeding and contribute to the growing population of human beings.
Thank you for exposing yourself.
They need to send several boxes to that Duggar family.
What would be even more appropriate would have been including a message about disposing of said condom in the trash after using. There have been way too many times, especially with the recent rains, that I have seen used condoms in the gutters, eventually making their way to sea where they will be ingested by or choke the very animals they are trying to save! Properly dispose of your rubbers people!
Evolution will take care of the problem, lets say in the next 50 million years or so, fish will thrive on condoms. Nature has its ways.
and the oscar goes to…
samhell of course!
; D