Trevor Tucker, Stockdale
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
WHY do politicians around the world go out of their way to deflect the masses from the real cause of climate change – the world’s out-of-control population?
Contain, and then reduce the ever-increasing global energy demand needed to sustain the world’s burgeoning population, and issues such as climate change reduction should, logically, have a chance of succeeding.
Globally, trillions of dollars will be spent in the next few decades recovering from the effects of ongoing climate change.
Surely, therefore, some determined international effort can be justified in acting to compassionately reduce the world’s population to a level of manageable sustainability.
However, given the time scale left to us, there is probably no humane way of reducing population … but we need to do our best.
The conundrum here is greed.
Even if the world population was reduced, to say, half, those who own the world’s monetary wealth would still, most likely and ultimately, proceed to destroy all life on this planet.
The older I get, the harder it is for me to understand why humanity has been so accepting of the impacts of unconstrained, disproportionate personal and corporate wealth.
Complacency is my best guess.
