Unrelenting Population Growth Driving Mass Extinctions, Rapid Climate Breakdown

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9. The root cause of our biggest problems.

Overpopulation is without doubt the reason for global warming; for resource depletion; for social and political disruptions; for inadequate infrastructure; etc.

And we can't talk about it.

Take legal and illegal immigration into the U.S.

The last thing we need are more people on this planet with the American carbon footprint -- yet even liberals and progressives who understand the emergency of climate change just cannot let themselves admit the connection between an increasing U.S. population, immigration and global warming. It is politically and socially taboo to link U.S. population, immigration and environmental degradation.

Of course, any serious discussion of overpopulation immediately brings condemnation from religious conservatives of virtually any sect or denomination.

Overpopulation will be the end of us.
I suspect that the planetary ecosystem will extract a collapse of the human niche when our numbers get too far out of proportion to sustainability.

Human overpopulation is an intractable problem -- there aren't any good solutions -- and we can't even really talk about it.