Is our Sex drive killing off our planet? (nit a sex thread, a materialism thread)

[Deja Q]

http://www.greendaily.com/2007/12/07/is-our-sex-drive-killing-the-planet

As if heartbreak, scandal, and STDs weren't bad enough, now we have to worry about sex wrecking the whole planet. In a column for BBC News, Matt Prescott asserts that the male need to impress the opposite sex is behind the material excess that's clogging up our earth, air and water with toxic crap, and that we crave eco-nasty bling like Hummers and gold cell phones because we still have the instincts of our Stone Age forebears. Back in those days, of course, a man's possessions (say, a stack of bearskins or a particularly nice rock) demonstrated power and strength and were a sure ticket to sexual success.

Yes, I'd buy her a castle too...

[querelle]

1. a particularly nice rock

I got one of those!

Q

[Orsino]

2. The lack of predators is killing the planet.

Funny humans---preferring unsustainable, polluting lifestyles to being devoured by wolves.

[DarkTirade]

3. Luckily the kind of people I tend to go for

aren't usually impressed by material things. :)

[Aristus]

4. Yeah, and the stupids are outbreeding the smarts, which leads to

"Idiocracy".

[skater314159]

5. I loved that movie

:rofl:

The bad thing is, President Camacho was better than Bush is!

[Aristus]

6. I was actually profoundly depressed by it.

I'm not kidding; I was depressed for days afterward...

[CGowen]

8. "5 time Ultimate Smackdown champion and porn superstar" wooohhaa n/t

[originalpckelly]

7. "It's not the size of the rock that counts..."