Posted by
Average Voter on Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:37:12 PM
Can you guess what the worst environmental problem facing the Earth today is? I have posted on it before. I will give you a clue...it is you. And me. And your neighbors. Their kids, your kids, my kids, the chinese and their kids.
Overpopulation.
Overpopulation is the world’s top environmental issue, followed closely by climate change and the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, according to a survey of the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
Overpopulation came out on top, with several professors pointing out its ties to other problems that rank high on the list.
“Overpopulation is the only problem,” said Dr. Charles A. Hall, a systems ecologist. “If we had 100 million people on Earth — or better, 10 million — no others would be a problem.” (Current estimates put the planet’s population at more than six billion.)
When was it in our history that we had an Earth with only 10 million people on it? 3500 B.C.?
This is the first step on a road that will take us to population control. Mark my words; it may not happen in my life time, but it will happen. Countries will come to agreement on population control. The U.N. will press for it, the EU will adopt it, and the U.S. will be the last to succumb.