But ironically, every environmental problem in the world today stems from human overpopulation, a point people in general and politicians and national news media in particular seldom mention. If we solve overpopulation, environmental conflicts will lessen. The first time you ever heard of people starving somewhere, you were hearing of overpopulation. Overpopulation always solves itself in the animal world. Disease and starvation eventually increase when a species becomes too abundant.
Humans are animals subject to the same natural laws as other animals.
Support of a global plan of voluntary birth control and family planning is a simple solution to world overpopulation and virtually all the world's environmental problems. Birth control or starvation and disease are our only choices. Whit Gibbons is a senior research scientist at UGA's Savannah River Ecology Lab.