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“For men who do not want to have more children, it’s the best way we can be responsible to ourselves, to our family, and to the world. We don’t need 1 billion more people on the planet — we need to take better care of the 7 billion we already have,” urges documentary filmmaker Jonathan Stack, adding that the vasectomies will reduce humanity’s carbon footprint by 1 million metric tons. “That’s more than 20,000 people could do in a lifetime of recycling, reducing, or reusing.”
Stack recently shot a documentary about vasectomies, becoming inspired after getting his own from urologist Doug Stein, whom he says is “like Don Quixote — a man on a mission to save the planet, one vasectomy at a time.” Stack is trying to raise $50,000 to finish the documentary, make World Vasectomy Day a massive success, and ultimately slow down the runaway train that is global population. Donating $100 gets you the documentary and one of these sweet shirts:
Watch the video — which includes the money quote, “Simon, you’re gonna have the cleanest scrotum in Kenya”: