How overpopulated do you think the planet is? Here's my take on it:
I think there are about 100 times too many people at the moment. And ever since agriculture got really rolling, we've been dragging 3 times our weight in domesticated animals up that mountain with us. The problem has existed for literally millennia, but it's only now becoming visible, here inside our cosy little anthropocentric cocoon.
Along the way, we've done in virtually ALL of the world's wild fauna.
Our sustainability problem is far too big for a diet modification to make any difference at this point, which is perhaps what I should have said in the first place.
I wrote this assessment two years ago: No really, how sustainable are we? In it I look at the question of sustainability six different ways. I ended up realizing that a truly sustainable world population would probably be no more than 35 million people give or take - but only if they were living as hunter-gatherers.
Doing the math on our predicament over the last decade has been a grim experience.
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