OVERPOPULATION
Address it humanely, because the option isn't
The Dec. 7 "'Our Hungry Planet' / The real issue is the growing population" failed in a monumental way. It did not explain how to address the problem humanely. Simply put:
• Universal education of all 6.7 billion of us that we are depleting vital resources faster than the sustainable rate. Therefore, it is important to lower birth rates to reach a balance with our resources.
• Universal availability of family planning (not abortion) so couples have only as many children as they want.
Briefly, those are the humane measures needed. Are there inhumane measures? You bet! And here they are: decreasing supplies of food and water leading to more famines, droughts, diseases, plagues, suffering, misery and starvation; more disputes over borders and resources leading to more wars, genocides, destruction and death.
We have spoken before thousands of Minnesotans about the world population growth catastrophe and the need to humanely stabilize our numbers. We have yet to find a single person who thinks that the inhumane course would be better than the humane one. And we doubt we ever will.
DAVID PAXSON, PRESIDENT, AND Carolyn VandenDolder, research fellow, World Population Balance, Minneapolis
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Once we as a society and as a world believe that it is our moral imperative to address overpopulation in a humane way, many new and creative things can and will be invented. An example are parenting classes that address responsibilities of both parenting and the numbers of children, birth control which men can take, and the meeting of religious leaders who will need to come to terms with this issue in the context of age-old beliefs which must take a back seat to the suffering caused by too many people demanding too few resources
ReplyDeleteI hate to say this but when I looked at your web name I saw copulation - sorry, but perhaps it is not a stretch when you have the courage to address the number one issue.
ReplyDeleteLike you, the response I get to this number one issue is a blank stare.
No one can imagine what the world will look like because we have no concept of what the world was like when we had 1/2 the population.
We are not good at projections or we would have seen that we could not keep raising the stock prices when there was nothing of value being added, we could not keep raising property prices when we were not raising incomes.
Think of how we continue to avoid the education that could make a difference, the education and empowerment of women. Scares the hell out of most of the globe.
Keep on raising hell!