The Elephant that's in the room is tumbling...

[Zera]

It's crazy that this is almost taboo to talk about. The size of our population and the rate at which it is growing is quite worrying. It is a fact that our Earth is overpopulated. Increasingly, environmental scientists are manifesting that we have overshot the Earth's carrying capacity. The problem is that acting to influence population growth infringes human rights...so should we leave it alone? It is clear that putting a limit on the number of kids that a couple can have can only work on a dictatorship. You simply cannot manage people that way. There have been many abuses commited in the name of "population control." It even has a nasty ring, doesn't it? But the fact is, we don't need to infringe human rights. We need to endorse them. We need to empower women from developing countries, have them know about family planning, and efficient birth control methods. We've already overshot our blue planet's capacity. After an overshoot, as seen on other species, population decline follows. We can have a hand at it ourselves, or we can allow nature to do it for us. We'll need to address this issue sooner or later. Yours truly, at the other side of the screen, hopes it will be sooner rather than later. Don't you?