What about population control? There is no environmental problem that cannot be solved by having fewer people. If there were 6.6 billion wolves on earth, people would say there are too many for the deer. Are people supposed to keep populating the earth until...?? I would like to believe people are more reasonable then that...but the empirical evidence is contradictory. Environmental issues cannot and should not be discussed without also discussing the human population issue. Are humans mindless creatures that explode in population until nature takes its course and can no longer support us; with starvation and disease the final "answer"? Or are we better than that? Are we merely another animal or do we actually have a brain?
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