Population: The Last Taboo

What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives, environmentalists, and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? Population.

The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it's decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet's resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we've already made ... Full Story »

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Robb Drinkwater
4.8
by Robb Drinkwater - May. 23, 2010

I applaud this author taking on.... what she says in her own article and alludes to in the title... a difficult social subject. It is something we all need to consider. And more people should write about.

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