Overpopulation: Root Cause of Many Problems

People often speak of the many problems affecting the world as separate issues which ought to be solved individually. Few realize that a great number of these problems can be directly or indirectly linked to a single root cause: overpopulation. Let’s take a look at some examples of this…

POLLUTION: The more people there are, the more homes there are to heat or cool, cars to fuel, products to manufacture, and so on. All of this generates pollution; the benefits of stopping population growth are undeniably far greater than those of using more hybrid cars or CFLs.

POVERTY: With some exceptions, more heavily populated countries tend to have poorer people. Guatemala, Bangladesh, and Nigeria are examples of this. The benefits of a country’s natural resources are smaller as they are divided among a greater number of citizens.

RACISM: People (or their leaders) frequently look for a “scapegoat”, often another race or religion, to blame their poverty on. They sometimes hold beliefs such as “if there weren’t so many of them around, there would be more money and jobs for us, and less crowding.”

STARVATION: Nations become incapable of meeting their food needs when their populations rise, making them less self-reliant. Famine rarely seems to occur in countries with low population densities, especially if they have a substantial amount of farmland.

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