There is never the less a population element to the climate crisis.
Work done by Mathis Wackernagel identifying the ecological footprint
resulting from our lifestyle and the global carrying capacity
demonstrated clearly that we have already passed the ecological
limits. The reason China has a problem is not due to population
control, it is due to rising prosperity and the reason it is so hard
to make in-roads into the problem of hunger etc. in East Timor is not
due to rising prosperity it is due to increasing population (East
Timor has a very high birth rate).
Can you envisage where China would be if it had not implemented the
one child policy?
It is simply not possible to provide the current world population
with a standard of living similar to ours with the world resources
available.
So there is a stark choice - a fortress economy in a world riven by
fear hatred and violence or a world where we recognise ALL the
problems and start fixing them on the basis that we do not have
limitless resources and that everyone deserves a fair share of the
pie. ZPG is important & should be the aim of every country.

jo





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