I must say, Hardin – you were a brilliant man. The fact that in 1968 you recognized the issues that are only emerging in the last decade and truly considered a problem now, is amazing. I think I should go back to the fact, that although this was a required reading for my biology class, it's one of the things that drives me to become a conservationist if I don't become a teacher. One needs to recognize, we as the human species are making such a large impact on the world.
Our daily choices, optimization, greed, temperance, freedom, coercion and everything in between. Hardin hit all the points. We simply want to believe that the world is infinite, and one can do anything they please as long as it does not affect them. The CEOs who run the world, don't care that somewhere out there in the world, the destruction of the planet is looming – it all comes back to materialistic desires.
Overpopulation is a problem. Plainly stated, there needs to be more consideration on this pertinent issue that is finally being unraveled by the majority of the world today. It was recognized 44 years ago that we have this problem... It all goes to question how we can backseat a lot of things in life.
Although it opens a large can of worms that I don't want to currently speak upon. I really do give kudos to China for the One-Child-Policy. Yes, it's cause major social issues such as female infanticide, boy and girl ratios be severely off. The impacts of a single growing population limiting their birth ratios has decreased the number of consumers in the world. There are also a lot of other considerations to this of course that I am currently not acknowledging, but think today, March 31, 2012, if China did not implement the policy how many more people would there be in the world.
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