Envirnoment Issue of Over Population

As these two effects of climate change - global drying and rising salt pollution - run up against the growing demand for water, and as irrigation systems run dry or become contaminated, the possibility arises of a permanent global food deficit. Even with a net food surplus, 800 million people are malnourished. Nothing I could write would begin to describe what a world in deficit - carrying 9 billion people - would look like (Guardian) a.

Why are there so many people? Earth is suffering from resource depletion due to unleashed population growth. We will live to regret for the scale of ignorance, and idiocy around over population that is ongoing. Peoples uncommon sense in poor countries about reproduction consequence such as girl children early pregnancy, giving birth for child labour along which is mostly due to female illiteracy and inactive economic life are among the major factors of too many births. If people have children at an average age of 30 rather than 20, the world population will be reduced by 1/3 after a few generations. These are all considered to be causing out of negligent cultures that withhold women’s rights to live a full human life.

There's another alternative and that's to reduce the human population through birth control. Why is no effective birth control taught, practiced, or even condoned, in much of the overpopulated developing world? It can be implemented as an effective solution to the looming catastrophes.

The reality is that so long as the human population keeps expanding we will continue to consume and pollute the planet. The issue of over population will be the ultimate driving function on the future condition of this planet. Today the Red Cross warns about a new TB that has no effective cure. This innate capacity for delusion and selfish denial will wreck havoc of civilization unless we initiate promptly, with informed planning or even force if needed, contain and control the total population of the earth.

a) Comments: George Monbiot, Guardian, 11 Oct 2006