The dangers facing the earth’s ecosystems are well known and the subject of great concern at all levels. Climate change is high on the list. But argues Sir David Attenborough, there is an underlying and associated cause – population growth...
"It remains
an obvious and brutal fact that on a finite planet human population will quite definitely stop at
some point. And that can only happen in one of two ways. It can happen sooner, by fewer
human births- in a word by contraception. That is the humane way, the powerful option which
allows all of us to deal with the problem, if we collectively choose to do so. The alternative is
an increased death rate – the way which all other creatures must suffer, through famine or
disease or predation. That translated into human terms means famine or disease or war –
over oil or water or food or minerals or grazing rights or just living space. There is, alas, no
third alternative of indefinite growth.
The sooner we stabilise our numbers, the sooner we stop running up the ‘down’ escalator.
Stop population increase – stop the escalator - and we have some chance of reaching the top
– that is to say a decent life for all."
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ett måste för alla som värnar vårt ekosystem... så sprid!
