Gross Overpopulation Is One Issue That Is Suicide For Any Politician To Address. We Are In Crisis.

[haele]

120. Politicians know if they don't address it, human nature will take care of it - brutally and quickly.

We're already seeing climate change refugees becoming pariah. They can't go back, their economies won't support them.
Unfortunately, politicians and those all so serious "businesspeople", like most of us worker bees, also believe that what happens elsewhere won't eventually sweep over them like a wave.

There's no frontier, no "undiscovered country" for excess people to go disappear to.

We're already at the lifeboat stage.

And I'm afraid that "leaders" are perfectly willing to let war and famine be the method to ruthlessly handle excess population.
It doesn't matter if the next Einstein, Feynman, or Mozart lives in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal, or even in rural Iowa. They don't care about benefits to the future, they care about their own here and now.

If labled as an untermensch, any child, any parent, will just get eliminated as being one of "those worthless peasants" - a valueless eater - without a chance to benefit the world with skill or talent.
I know my granddaughters are worth nothing to those who currently own the resources to make the world a better place, if they were willing to sacrifice a bit and actually think beyond their bank statements. It's tribal, and because we aren't rich, we're "the other".

Haele