Men are not being advised to avoid impregnating women, because the idea of a state placing restrictions on men’s sexual behaviour, however violent or reckless, is simply outside the framework of political possibility. It is supposed to be women’s responsibility to control whether they get pregnant – but in Brazil and El Salvador, which are among the countries where zika is most rampant, women often don’t get to make any serious choice in that most intimate of matters. Because of endemic rape and sexual violence, combined with some of the strictest abortion laws in the world, women are routinely forced to give birth against their will.
Christopher Yarsawich on 06 Apr 20There was never a scientific consensus of an imminent cooling period or ice age. The majority of scientific research even in the 1970s predicted global warming caused by industrial/agricultural carbon dioxide and population growth. Many of the sources that considered the evidence for the end of an interglacial period also acknowledged the role that carbon dioxide emissions would play in generating global warming that would run counter to any cooling in the glacial/interglacial long-term cycles.
