There are now 7,293,000,000 people on this planet.
We all require water, food and fuel. We take up room; we destroy the habitat, pollute the water, air and soil and we will soon be 12 Billion.
The natural resources are being used up. The fossil fuels are being used. The climate is being affected. The forests are being destroyed all over the planet.
It is relentless.
If there were ten people they could eat, burn, slaughter and produce waste to their heart’s content. It would not make a speck of difference.
When you have ten billion all requiring wheat, rice, meat, fish, space, shelter, vehicles, fuel, gadgets and the rest it is destroying the natural resources.
Surely everyone can appreciate that this is simply unsustainable? Or are we blithely going to proceed until the last tree is chopped, the last wild animal butchered, the last insect poisoned, river besmirched with sewage, sea made stagnant and climate transformed into a greenhouse cauldron?
Will someone then say ‘Hey – I liked it better before’.
If we do not do something to stop it the politicians in hand with the businessmen will sell off the future to finance their yachts and penthouse suites; only then will they discover that they have to breathe the same air as us!
Nice article. You are so right. The economic system in production have no more future.This is an error to benefit a few at expense of nature and humans. Humans must be enforced to one child policy. There is not other way.
Thank you. I fear we live in desperate times. The natural world is under threat like never before. We need a policy on population. We need education and contraception. Thanks for your comment – best wishes Opher.