Why environmentalists don't talk much about population

If you ask some people, the solution to our environmental problems is simple – reduce population.

Global population growth is about increased longevity as well as the birth rate.

When I wrote a response to the United Nations report on biodiversity loss two weeks ago, my article attracted 350 online comments, many questioning why I didn't write about population. One person even went to the effort of clipping out the print article, annotating it with comments about population and posting it to me anonymously.

Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Caitlin Fitzsimmons - “Why environmentalists don't talk much about population.”

(Resolving the population issue is not among the “low-hanging fruit” in moving towards easing the world’s climate difficulties, and, generally, slowing population growth is not something friendly to existing market philosophies embedded in the world’s economic systems.

The resolution lynch-pin to population growth is education, particularly that of women, something is fundamentally opposed in some societies - Robert McLean)