Trevor Tucker, Stockdale
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
WHETHER we like it or not, global warming is not our world’s greatest challenge.
It is, however, just one consequence of a disastrous man-made problem – overpopulation.
Its seriousness is such that there is absolutely no room for complacency in addressing this fundamental, horrendous problem, for it is firmly entrenched as the elephant in the global room.
So obvious, but continuously ignored.
Of course, mankind must deal with the routine, ongoing effects of adverse weather events, however, unless every nation collaborates to adopt a fundamental strategy to reduce the world’s population, then God help us all and our future generations.
It follows that an ever-increasing world population will (continue to) put an ever-increasing burden upon the world’s finite reserves.
This will indisputably continue to dominate consequences such as (potentially) global warming.
In other words, regardless of whether global warming is, or is not occurring, global population is increasing unabated, to the detriment of mankind.
If nothing is done in the short term, don’t be surprised that a point will be reached during our lifetime, when we will witness millions of people needlessly dying in a short time frame because a tipping point will have been reached where our world’s resources can no longer sustain human life as we currently know it.
Nor will we achieve a realistic improvement in air and water quality, halt melting of the polar caps, minimise the creation of global rubbish, eliminate starvation, prevent the threat of wars based upon water and food security, reduce crime, bring about social harmony, or eliminate disease and mental anguish, and so on.
The solution lies in the ingenuity of mankind to find a peaceful, compassionate, pragmatic and affordable means of halting, then reducing the world’s population.
There is a vast range of possible options, all worth thinking about and not to be ignored.
For example: redirecting The United Nations Organisation to focus primarily upon population reduction strategies; giving women the right to dictate how many children they choose to nurture (free of religious persecution or the unfair burden of tribal beliefs and punishments); not funding families who have more than two children; making it mandatory for couples who intend to marry to pre-qualify to have children; and empowering our children’s futures through universal, free and robust education.
It sounds daunting, I agree.
However, hopefully mankind’s (apparently, ever diminishing) common sense will somehow prevail.
But in the meantime, just whining about dealing with the consequences of adverse global weather conditions is not only misdirected, but absurd.
