A vaccine that acts as birth control for elephants is promising to ease the tension between park resources, human expansion and an ever increasing but still very vulnerable African elephant population.

However, I believe family planning initiatives for Homo sapiens should be taken into consideration as appropriate throughout rich or poor areas of the world because there just aren’t enough natural resources to go around today. Both rich and poor nations are squandering what little precious natural resources remain.

Additionally we are failing at policies that truly address the real issues. For example, the policy to invade Iraq does nothing about a region where poverty and water availability no doubt oppresses people. Such oppression throughout these regions condemns deprived and underprivileged individuals toward extremism.