Better world with fewer people

For the record: Margaret Sanger’s work with minorities earned praise from Martin Luther King, Jr. in his 1966 acceptance speech for the Margaret Sanger award.

We do have 7.3 billion people on the planet. We continually choose not to face this dilemma, which is central to most human and non-human problems on the planet. We create consumers and therefore pollution. We create laborers and therefore stunning competition for jobs, many of which are being reduced by automation.

The economy and our “busyness” comes at a cost to the environment. With a reasonable population this cost is low. With billions it is overwhelming to the environment and all of our systems. For the non-human species of the planet we have little regard.

There is only one revolution: non-violent population reduction — no guns, no bombs. If everyone understood the ramifications of world population, they would know the consequences of their reproductive behavior. Then they would have perhaps only one child, or no children. And that is everyone, no matter what their race, economic status or religion happens to be.

A better world is available to all, but not by continually increasing our population. Anything else is just wishful thinking.

Bob Mitchell

Cheney