Problem: Too many people

I’ve seen concerns in letters to the editor about economic, environmental, social and political problems. These are problems that can be solved. We each have all the power to change the world.

Problem: Too many people, too few jobs. Solution: Have one child or no children. We create more laborers than the economic system creates jobs. In addition, automation removes jobs.

Problem: Killing species wholesale. Solution: Same as Solution 1. We create more people who take the land other species depend upon. Sorry tigers. Tough break.

Problem: Oil spills, ocean pollution, strip-mining, etc. Solution: Same as above. We create consumers. Want to go green? Want to save the rain forest, celebrities?

Problem: Starvation. Solution: Same as above. No matter what reasons exist for starvation, adding more people is insane and won’t help solve the problem.

Problem: Too much crowding. Solution: See above. Or put all of the people on Earth in Jacksonville, Fla., or the great state of Texas as the folks who think there is no population problem often say we could do, with space left over.

So there’s the solution to almost all of our problems. Nobody wants to talk about it. So quit whining.

Shelly Maclin

Cheney