''Every
nation has both a right and responsibility to keep its population in balance
with its resources. The notion that you can grow forever is crazy economics.'' ―Mark
O’Connor
In
the world outside a coal mine frogs are the canaries, and they are dying.
As
we humans change the chemical composition of the
atmosphere, the
oceans, and of the
land
itself, the very planet we depend on for life support is rapidly losing the
ability to support life. Scientists and other experts warn that we are fast
approaching critical tipping points on numerous fronts and that mass extinctions
are a likely result.
Few
people seem to grasp the precariousness of our
situation―the immediacy
of the dangers we all face―and fewer still fully grasp the
proximate causes of it. Until we acknowledge the human
element at the epicenter of environmental degradation and resource depletion―until
we stop thinking in terms of resource shortages and start thinking in terms of excess demand due to overpopulation―and
begin an honest dialog aimed at resolving these difficult issues, we are condemned
to live a “slapstick comedy” kind of existence.
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