There’s one simple change that needs to happen in order for most all of the problems the world faces today to be resolved – and without this one change no other plans to help will work. We all see it and even a young child can understand it. It’s time that we have this discussion, no matter how much we may wish to avoid it just a bit longer and so let someone else, later on, deal with it instead – we need to talk about why humans are wired to think that adding more people is better than stabilizing.
Did you know that the global human population has doubled from 4 billion to over 8 billion in just the last 40 years?
Did you know that most scientists place the number of humans which the Earth can safely sustain at under 2 billion?
Did you know that you cannot fit 9 pounds of sugar in a 2 pound sack? I knew you did. . .
Did you also know that all of these current problems we are now facing and now attempting to fight are hopeless battles if our population continues to grow – yet they will largely become obsolete if we can simply stop our growth: pollution, world hunger, climate change, mass extinction of species, rising oceans, deforestation, destruction of the coral reefs, shortage of medicine, availability of fresh water and many more?
Our goal at RightSized.org is simply to get the word out and get this necessary conversation finally started. We need to stop talking about climate change, ocean health, pollution and all the rest without also including a serious mention as to the single cause and solution to all of these problems.