Reply #10: Absolutely bang on

[GliderGuider]

• Climate change
  
• Oil and natural gas depletion
  
• Air, water and soil pollution
  
• Depletion of soil fertility and fresh water reserves
  
• Deforestation and desertification
  
• Depletion of ocean fish stocks
  
• Massive extinctions
  
• Biodiversity loss
  
• Economic instability
  
• Social stress

All the above "problems" are just symptoms of a human population in overshoot.

The bigger problem is, if we are in fact already in overshoot (and we are, by at least 25%) and serious problems are less than a generation away (and they are, probably less than a couple of decades), then even stopping all population growth right now won't help, because there are already too many of us. The mere fact that the global fertility rate is currently 2.7 makes the problematique itemized above insoluble.

The only sure remedy is to rapidly reduce our population. Since there is no humane way to do this, Mother Nature is going to have to give us a hand.