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Unsustainable population growth is as unrealistic as unsustainable economic growth - but its politically incorrect to say so
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:00
This week David Attenborough (BBC News website, 13 April 2009) had the gall to mention the unmentionable subject of global overpopulation. Its strange that when I was at university in the 1970’s population growth used to be an everyday issue of debate but since then its become a taboo subject that guarantees a flood of hate mail for anyone who dares to mention it.
Neither politicians nor environmentalists seem prepared to tackle this bizarre conspiracy of silence. Anyone who does cross the political correctness barrier and recognises the problems of our rampant population growth is instantly accused of promoting an evil eugenics plot or being a Nazi.
Like every other species we humans have constantly increased our numbers and when overpopulated have spread out to other habitable parts of the planet. Unfortunately in the twenty-first century we are already everywhere - so there is nowhere else to expand to - except where other people already live!
Just as the juvenile mentality of thinking that constant economic growth is sustainable & that everything will probably be all right has led to our present economic crisis so our leaders (& ourselves) will probably just watch the over population fuelled environmental crisis loom ever closer.
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