![]() ![]() There is a housing crisis because there are too many of us. Even if we halted climate change in its tracks, we would still be destroying everything else because of the global demand for resources.įear of an ageing population? That one never gets old Read More The oceans are full of plastic, are running out of fish and are acidifying because there are too many of us. ![]() ![]() We are in the middle of a mass extinction because there are too many of us. The reality is that our ecosystems are being annihilated because there are too many of us. Believe me, 277 people for every square kilometre is not much fun. I grew up in West London where it is evident to anyone with a brain that reducing population is a good thing. In the UK there are 277 people for every square kilometre in Australia that figure is approximately 3.4. Instead, increasing the national population is seen as necessary and news of the falling birthrate is conveyed as a dire warning. Australians don’t seem to perceive the urgency of reducing the global population. Bernice Shepherd writes: Re “Conservatives don’t love babies the most - I do!”, I am a woman past childbearing age who chose to be child-free because at 8 billion and counting (5 billion when I was in my 20s, only 30 years ago), I felt there were too many of us in the world by far. ![]()
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