In order to stop the rapid destruction of natural habitat and biodiversity, it is necessary to bring about a dramatic reduction in human population and industrial activity immediately, not in fifty, one hundred, or two hundred years. With every passing week, the world population increases by over a million people, relentlessly destroying habitat and exterminating species. The chance of a demographic transition ever reducing human population is zero, because it is not in the interest of economic development to do so. The current world population of six billion is strangling the planet, but no nation on Earth today is proposing to reduce its population to help address this problem. Time is running out.
Extinction is forever.
All world political leaders want more economic development, not less. It is absurd to believe that the world population or economic activity will ever drop of its own accord, as some suggest. All world leaders want to maintain their populations and to increase economic activity. This has always been and will always be. The suggestion by the United Nations, the World Bank, and other development organizations that in a couple of hundred years all nations will mysteriously reduce their populations and economic activity is absurd.