Controlling population growth is easy, and must be done as soon as possible to save our planet. All we have to do is provide contraceptives to women who don't want to have a baby. Educating women reduces unwanted pregnancies. Population reduction makes economic sense. It's almost 20 times more expensive to deal with an unwanted baby compared to contraceptives to prevent the birth. Population reduction will improve economic prosperity and help our planet.

Basically, we have too many people using too many resources.  And, we’re not only trashing the planet for future generations, we’re driving other species to extinction in the process. Since the mid-80’s we’ve been consuming these resources faster than the earth can supply them naturally.  We are currently running out of energy, food, water and land. One million species face extinction, more than ever before in human history, and humanity is responsible. We must get our pop

Julie Smith, 4/1/26 This is a summary of Chapter 4, The Elephant in the Room , in the book, “2050: What’s it Gonna Be?” .  You can download the full chapter, as well as other chapters.  References are here . Uncontrolled human population growth is at the bottom of every environmental issue that we have.  Since 1970, the year of the first earth day 50 years ago, human population has more than doubled.  Every time we add another human to the planet, our carbon emissions increas

This book is different from other sustainability books because it breaks down the silos of the various issues, and links our everyday choices to our planet and our wildlife, and specifies exactly what each and every one of us needs to do, if we want to salvage what’s left of our wildlife diversity.

Human population is our worst environmental problem.

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