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> Chikalada's got it absolutely right - the single underlying contributory factor to practically all of Planet Earth's problems is there are just too many human beings: we are the equivalent of a cancer on Earth, destroying the organism that sustains us.
It's amazing how willing well-fed, light-skinned Westerners are to vote other people off the planet (and I mean this generally -- I have no idea about the background of the person cited above).
If there's a cancer, it's not in the developing world -- it's in the resource-besotted West. And, very soon, China. We're the ones who gobble up the energy and raw materials. We're the biggest polluters. We're the ones who export our industrial needs overseas -- with all its nasty fallout -- then pay pennies on the dollar to foreign laborers. All in the name of cheap goods at home.
As an aside, most of the West is graying and underpopulated. This is why we must import so much labor.
What's the solution? Population planning, of course. But if we want to halt "overpopulation," we'll need to address its root cause: poverty, the bastard child of colonialism and predatory capitalism.
