Letter to the Editor
By now it would seem beyond doubt that global warming is a reality and a serious problem. Precisely how much of it can be attributed to human activity and how much to natural causes may be open to debate. There is also mass starvation and violent aggression, manifesting in our part of the world as increasing road rage, glassing incidents and drunken parties that deteriorate into public brawls, and one can also think of various reasons and remedies for these.
But we are refusing to see the obvious — that six billion human beings cannot continue to foul, decimate and exploit the planet the way we are doing without causing dramatic and disastrous consequences for it and ourselves. Precisely what those consequences might be is also open to speculation and debate, but keeping in mind that the six billion is expected to be nine billion by 2050 and twelve billion soon after, the real problem should be obvious.
Global warming, and so many of our other problems are but symptoms of the HUMAN POPULATION EXPLOSION, which is beyond any doubt or debate, and until we face up to and tackle that, we are wasting our time and effort by treating symptoms and not the cause.
Dmitri Perno
Buderim
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