Why Is Population Growth Seldom Discussed?

[ffr]

55. I bring it up as often as I can on DU and with everyone I speak to

And I agree with those who study this topic, that the World's human population is only sustainable at about 2 to 3 billion, if that.

I laugh at any assessment about saving wildlife or the environment as a solution, because until human consumption of resources is addressed through reduced population, they're all going to go extinct and the environment is going to continue being polluted; we've already passed the cliff of no return. And as Neil Degrasse Tyson says in Cosmos, 'there's a disconnect between what we know and what we need to do.' (or something along those lines - Episode 11 or 12).

Human population control to these levels by itself would cascade in so many positive directions for life on Earth. It would give us time to come into commonality with nature. We know this, but we're satisfied with an untimely harsh ending we can sluff off until later, rather than making the tough decisions to address the problems we see staring us in the face. We needed to change our consciousness long ago, doing what we needed to do for the betterment of all life on this planet.

Faster and faster we go...in the direction of easy. In the last 60 years the Earth's human population has almost tripled.

I do what little I can do to reduce and recycle. But I see far too many that don't want to see. Our fate is sealed.

http://www.worldometers.info/