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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Human Egg Donation

The live birth-rate around the globe is the single and most important issue facing the survival of planet Earth. The human activity that is the greatest threat is not consuming fossil fuels and the alleged global warming, but mankind's predilection with greed and selfishness. Not all of mankind, but certainly the more (self-congratulatory) advanced (!) societies. And thereby being a consumer under the control of commerce. It seems that the more 'advanced' the society the more 'backward' it becomes. An apparent paradox.

The amount of drinking water is in decline as building with cement and concrete accelerates along with a growing (global) population. Stories of natural disasters around the world, however regrettable, simply illustrate the growing problem. Human tragedy is always a good lure to the TV companies... to create more finance. Selling lucrative stories and the advertising revenue it attracts (parasitical behaviour) is always commercially viable. Advertising revenue rises with the amount of devastation. The population growth is perversely (and cynically) encouraged as the consumer population continues to grow.

The desire to watch bad news is still very popular as long as the bad news happens to someone else. What is the psychological driver for bad news? Why do people seem to enjoy bad news, though outwardly appearing moved? Guilt possibly as they become aware that they demonstrate poor (greedy and selfish consumer) behaviour when so many others have so clearly lost everything. These graphically destitute people live a truly dire existence when from an armchair and watching real stories the realisation is one of the awfulness of it all. At least offering a helping hand is something in the right direction. The problem is that the TV gets swithched off, but the mental images get turned off and forgotten as well.


The amount of waste in food terms is grotesque when around the world there are huge numbers of starving people. The upbeat talk of there being enough food to go around is obviously the justification to make money and appease the more sensitive minded. It is not uncommon to see those with sufficiency generally being the ones who don't care much as they are too involved with self. Those who are less sufficient, but reasonably comfortable, are not able or willing to change. It is always for someone else to act and not the one who feels upset by unfairness. It's all part of the human psyche: "the problem isn't mine, it belongs to someone else" mindset.

Human egg and sperm donors could receive payments of £800 under proposals to to solve shortages in the supply. On the global stage, overgrowth problems threaten human existence so the claimed shortage in supply is complete rubbish as an argument. The Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) imposes a £250 ceiling on payments to avoid commercialisation of the procedure: obtaining eggs and sperm. Unknown sources of these two procreation essentials are statistically likely to generate mutants. It remains unclear why there is the alleged shortage of both sperm and eggs. Unless, of course, the financial implications are considered. There is no genuine medical reason to encourage the birth-rate, but there are good reasons to reverse it. But these do not engage money-making processes (to commercial enterprises) and so are ignored.

  • Research is the most likely answer, but into what? Or to produce what?
Within a globalised growing population there is hardly a problem with conception in general around the world. The real issue is those who cannot have children (and usually there is a biological reason for a failure to conceive). The greater the population the greater the chances of accidental inbreeding within a local area. Many find partners in very different locations, but many more settle locally. Creating a glut of eggs/sperm will increase the statistical chances of 'accidents' happening. This defines the absence of accident and the introduction of stupidity. The potential problems should be obvious.

When a human-engineered conflict (war) begins it will eventually terminate. After a great deal of death and destruction that feeds the human procreation programme: produce more humans and rebuild (at an economic advantage to the construction industry) the destroyed human societies. The human growth problem will not terminate and will continue creating worse scenarios. There can be no let up of reduction in the problems when talk is about providing finance that will make global problems worse.

Of course, the real need is to create more female eggs so that research can continue. What kind of research is never explained other than attempts to justify with the eradication of mostly genetically-based health issues. A growing population will almost certainly experience exponential health issues. The scenario is self-sustaining. More people, the more health problems expected. But the financially lucrative consumer population grows. The waste also grows, but the energy consumed to create the waste continues to promote healthy financial markets for the energy suppliers.