Over-population

Charles Kindred and I have believed for some time, that in the long run, over-population is our greatest social problem. At our present rate of growth and consumption, there may come a time when the resources of the world cannot sustain the population. In 1950, the world's population was 2.6 billion. Now it is over 6.6 billion. In the March issue of The Reporter, a publication of Population Connection, it is stated: "Alarming signs of environmental deterioration include global warming, extinction of species, waning forests and cropland, the collapse of ocean fisheries and decreasing fresh water supplies. Yet, little attention is paid to the connection between these tragedies and their most fundamental cause: overuse of the planet's resources due to the large and still rapidly increasing number of humans and our excessive consumption. . . . . . . The more people there are and the more each consumes, the worse the deterioration. Ultimately, the condition of the planet may reach a level at which it will be unable to fully support the human population, causing deaths by starvatiion,disease and conflict."