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66 years ago there were approximately 2.25 billion people alive on this planet. Now there are approximately 6.7 billion. Ninety percent of human waste is not treated. Human activities  have caused the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to increase by about 35% since the beginning of the age of industrialization.^{[23](Wikipedia)} It should not take a genius to recognize that more of us mean more pollution not to mention more difficulty reaching agreement about anything  including global climate change.

Further there is no reasonable population "growth" model looking forward. All constant growth is exponential. What that means is that if growth is only steady at one percent it will still cause a doubling of the world population to 13.4 billion in less than 70 years. Right now we are adding 80,000,000 people every year. 

We need a sustainable non growing population and a sustainable system of resource uses. 

Population growth is the number one item above everything. Period!

Thanks

Ryboy

posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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