Caught in a Landslide…
OverpopulationanditsConsequences.blogspot.com The sustainable population size depends upon the average resource consumption per person… As our current human population is consuming more than four times that which is sustainable, and, whilst we can reduce the population gradually using voluntary family planning to get the average fertility rate below two, it would take a century or more to get the population down to sustainable levels without significantly reducing average resource consumption, and we simply don’t have the time – decades at most… In summary: we can’t reduce the population very significantly within a few decades, so we’ll have to also focus attention on reducing average resource consumption by a factor of at least four as soon as possible… Even if it seems impossible, catastrophic population collapse through starvation, war and the migration of billions with nowhere to go is much, much worse… We have a choice, but very lit...
