January 15 - Overpopulation

As early as 200 years ago a guy called Malthus argued that population was increasing faster than food production could be expanded. In the 1960s Paul Ehrlich warned of the consequences of uncontrolled population growth.

In "A Big Fix" Ian Lowe (head of the Australian Conservation Foundation) writes that "no species can keep increasing its numbers in a closed system". He says that it has been a remarkable technical feat to keep food production in step with population growth to date but it cannot continue.

We need politicians to take this issue on with high priority and come up with workable population policies. I believe that the best starting point is to educate women and give them practical control over their fertility. I can see how this is going to be difficult to implement in some places in the world but it has to happen and it has to be now.

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I think of our planet as Gaia and she is a living organism. As such, she is able to take control of the systems by which she functions. When overloads and imbalances occur she takes steps to rectify the situation. I believe that natural disasters are the means by which she does this.

If we, as intelligent members of the organism that is Gaia, cannot control our overpopulation and environmental vandalism then we'll just have to accept the consequences of Gaia doing it for us, whatever they may be.