Leon Kolankiewicz, Overpopulation Project - Veteran population campaigners like me have long lamented the fact that at both the national and international scales, the environmental establishment (Big Green) and climate activists alike have for decades either avoided or disparaged the population issue out of some combination of cowardice, calculation, apathy, ignorance, inconvenience, ideology, political expedience, or hypocrisy. Unfortunately this domain of deniers is not alone. I hate to say it, but most of my fellow environmental professionals – those who have the formal education and technical training to make a career out of managing or protecting the environment, in the public or the private sector – are pretty much in the same denialist or apathetic camp as the activists.
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At this point the population issue is over. We are just waiting for the low fertility rates to filter through.
The Chinese population is going to halve, so too Korea and Taiwan. Depending on the source, India is either just below replacement, or quite a bit below replacement. All of Europe is on a serious downward swing. Only immigration is keeping populations going in the US and Canada.
Only Africa is increasing. And even some African cities with educated women, fertility rates are below replacement.
In the next few decades the world population is going to top out and then plumet. The population issue has been sorted out by educating women.
We've all heard that "populations is over", "birthrate plummeting", "no worries about human overpopulation".
It's never been true, and I'd bet cash money that it's not true now either. Governments want bigger armies, the owner class wants more spenders, and religions want more believers. All those forces work for continued overpopulation by humans with all the habitat theft, fossil fuel overuse, and extinctions that are slowly killing everyone everywhere.
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