DEAR News Of The Area,

WHEN my late dad was born in 1927, the global population had reached a staggering two billion.

It had taken all of human history up until 1800 to reach one billion, and then only another 127 years to pile on another billion.

The strains were showing – there’d already been a World War, and humans had conquered the ‘four corners’ of the Earth – having even reached the South Pole.

Now, with the global overpopulation crisis at excruciating levels – with over eight billion humans – we’re still confronted with so many people ignoring the ‘elephant in the room’ (overpopulation – the driver of environmental damage), and instead focusing on climate and ‘climate deniers’. I’ve little doubt that these people have investments linked to alternative (lower emissions) energy production – because there’s no way the climate issue can be decoupled from the overpopulation issue.

They’re inextricably linked.

Let’s stop the overpopulation denial.

Let’s call out governments and leaders who show no leadership on this crucial issue of unsustainability, and push their hellish policies of growth in their own pockets of the world – through mechanisms like net migration not set at zero (but an extraordinary +195,000 annually in Australia), and their farcical financial incentives for having babies (like subsidised childcare, parental leave, IVF subsidies, family tax breaks, etc.).

Climate? Sure, it’s an issue – but it comes under the umbrella of overpopulation.

Let’s not be like our lamentable Prime Minister, let’s not be overpopulation deniers.

The planet deserves better!

Regards,
Richie TASSICKER,
Toormina.