Overpopulation at root of our problems

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Dec. 5 Human population in today’s numbers is what is unsustainable. Think about it:

People in the West and Asia have congested, choked and slowed roads with hydrocarbon-powered vehicles. Humans consume so much water, or cause the consumption of it.

The manufacturing of certain chemicals and plastics includes water in their fixed molecular structure, never again to be released as water.

Humans living beyond the moderate temperature zones in the north and south need more heat and light, carbon-sucking trees for housing, furniture and oil, coal and natural gas for energy.

It is the masses of people who need to dam up rivers for cheap electricity, who love to watch car races and air shows, and also want fresh food delivered by airplanes, trucks and fast ships.

It is the masses of people that cause violence and eventually the pollution of wars and the consumption of the Earth’s resources at polluting mine sites and who demand social benefits so they can have more children than they can afford but supported by those few who really create the wealth and who do not care how crowded the planet is.

Find a way to ethically, voluntarily and economically reduce the human population to below two billion long before 2100 and we will have a chance to stabilize the climate and survive. Three generations of one-child families on average might do it but time is short and the opportunity to avoid Mother Nature doing it by weather, famine and wars (yes wars) might be achieved.

Overpopulation is the root cause of all our problems and the politicians in every nation, religion and culture are afraid to state it is so. Are we too late? Nick Bird, Richmond Hill