POPULATION EXCESS
Global warming, the serious scarcity of foods, the destruction of the environment, droughts, and their drought-stricken lands, increasing scarcity of water in multiple countries, the melting of glaciers and poles, wars, terrorism, the worrisome excessive commerce of weapons. Many critical problems, some of which merit urgent solutions.
They are spoken about, there are manifestation to protest them, the media mentions them, high level meeting are held to find solutions, specially to global warming which giving way to further problems appears to be the most serious one. We all feel threatened, specially the younger generations. We realize that a lot is being said – but little is being done.
Yet, the fundamental cause of these evils is not brought up: the population explosion, its constant and alarming growth. We all perceive that there is excess population and know that it is in unstable and underdeveloped countries that its growth persists, but the majority of world leaders appear not to be sufficiently aware of the fact.
The population explosion, which duplicates itself every 25 years, results in an excess of motorcars, of suburbs, of industries, and the constant destruction of vegetation, most specially the tropical rain forests of Latin American, Africa and Indonesia. The population explosion also causes the scarcity of food, scarcity of water, migration legal or illegal, the contamination of the environment, the proliferation of drugs with its dire consequences, the excess of wastes, more and more landfills, etc.
Is it that world leaders do not see what is in front of their eyes? Are they out of touch with reality? Is it that they don’t understand the limitations of our earth and that it can only sustain a limited number of humanity? When it comes to extreme cases, the United Nations does what is possible to provide food. But is it the case that it is only a matter of just feeding them as if they were animals? Aren’t they human beings that deserve a decent life and opportunities to overcome their meager lot? Aren’t those millions of children exposed to miserly conditions, miserable lives, and exploit, important enough?
For how long will religious leaders who oppose birth control and modern methods of contraception be in a state of utter unconsciousness? Is it that they do not care for the well- being of humanity at large?
How long will the unconsciousness of political leaders go on, who live more interested in competing than in sharing; who with a primitive mentality of war, many of them, spend millions building or buying weapons, which only use is to kill people or turn into junk.
Only by imposing birth control and creating decentralized democracies that regulate excesses and promote evolution towards higher levels of consciousness, can we avoid total chaos.

