Overpopulation

Greenies--that is, absolute, 100 percent, no TV, no electricity greenies--tend to be very self-righteous in saying that we are using too much fill-in-the-blank. It's not necessarily that we're using too much (though in some cases we are), it's that there are too many of us. There are 6 billion people on the planet, far exceeding the carrying capacity of a few million. Say each of us cut down a tree; that's 6 billion trees right there, and many of us use more than that. There are a lot of extremely poor people in the Amazon, and the trees are disappearing rapidly. Why? People have to eat to survive, and those people were born into an environment where they have to keep moving and cutting down trees in order to grow enough food to survive. If our cities weren't continually expanding, we would not have as many problems with lion attacks and deer in our yards.
Unfortunately, this problem is not easily solved. China, with its population of 1 billion, discovered after it instituted its 1 child per family policy that if each family only had 1 child, there would not be enough people to provide elder care years on down the road, let alone support the infrastructure. Then, too, some countries may breed themselves out of existence, as with India. So many families prefer boys that the younger generations are low on females. Some Indian men have turned to mail-order brides.
The topic of overpopulation came up on Facebook (never have a conversation on Facebook if you are looking for people who actually think) in connection with a discussion on global warming. Somebody said that before we can do anything about global warming we have to address overpopulation. It's well-worth doing, and if we'd started 50 years ago that strategy might have worked, but now we have too many environmental problems to take them one at a time. Note to the Duggars: it doesn't matter how religious you are if you can't take care of your own children without outside help from television broadcasts and are directly contributing more than your fair share to an already overburdened planet. You're just lucky you're in America; if you lived in Ethiopia at least half your family would be dead from starvation and war.