Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Pollution from Overpopulation
Richard Vernon, July 2024 The Problem With a population of 8 billion increasing by 80 million annually, on a planet that scientists have repeatedly warned could sustainably support, with a modest western lifestyle, less than 2 billion, we have a serious overpopulation problem. Each of us needs food, clean water, clothing, a home, health services, employment and more, which are already in short supply for so many of the existing people. This overpopulation, and its increasing resource use through both people numbers and increasing demand for material wealth, is the main driver of a triple planetary crisis of Climate Change , Biodiversity Loss and Pollution . ( United Nations Environment Programme, 2024 ) 1. Climate change – driven largely by the human generation of carbon dioxide A meeting of climatologists in 2022 concluded with a statement that in order to achieve the cessation of rising temperature before it was too late, we had t...