11) After this terrible population contraction, with the population of the globe at one billion, there is no reason that this mechanism should stop operating. It should continue reducing the wellbeing of weakest members of the remaining group to subsistence and below.
"Adding up the numbers "this way" provides a clear view of where the human experiment (as it is currently designed) is going," said Alpert.
Are you getting the picture? Constant human population growth remains the single greatest threat to human survival in the 21st century.
"We must alert and organize the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today." Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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