We have heard all the questions and answers and the rants and the raves about the coming climate change or global warming, which you prefer, but there is a deeper problem that few want to knowledge.
It’s the great taboo of environmentalism: the size and growth of the human population.
It has a profound impact on all life on Earth, yet for decades it has been conspicuously absent from public debate.
Most natural scientists agree our growing numbers and our unchecked impact on the natural environment move us inexorably toward global calamities of unthinkable severity.
They agree the need to address population has become desperate.
Yet many environmentalists avoid the subject, a few objecting strongly to any focus on our numbers.
Some activists insist acting to influence population growth infringes on human rights; they maintain that it is best to leave the problem alone.
It is unpopular subject but eventually the cowards will have to address the growing problem. For too long any decisions on population have been pushed back or ignored completely in the name of political expediency. This large gorilla is waiting and waiting to jump up and bite the world in the ass. Unfortunately when that time comes it will be to damn late to do anything about it. Sooner or later, someone, somewhere will have to make the choices of who lives and who dies….who do you trust to make that decision?
Daily Agitator 