{"id":25247,"date":"2019-11-01T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25247"},"modified":"2019-11-01T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:26:09","slug":"many-people-are-asking-if-overpopulation-will-break-the-planet-a-fear-compounded-by-the-lack-of-attention-given-to-the-issue-by-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25247","title":{"rendered":"Many people are asking if overpopulation will break the planet, a fear compounded by the lack of attention given to the issue by elected officials."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Crowd-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd\" class=\"wp-image-25248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Crowd-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Crowd-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Crowd-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Crowd.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Panicked discussions of the climate crisis on this stressed planet are often bolstered by background debate on how fast the Earth\u2019s population is growing, and questions of how many people the planet can support. To be sure, a sevenfold increase of the world population over two centuries has stressed the planet to its breaking point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compleletely false and totally misleading! It is the destructive mismanagement of our resources that is the source of habitat loss, environmental destruction and lack of ecological sustainability. NOT population growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to replace the current paradigm with one where the planning and management of our society is not under the control of greedy corporations and bought politicians supplying a self-interested and selfish mass of unthinking purchasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will take a huge change in the ethic level of a large number of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-milwaukee-independent\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kTcI76wv0z\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milwaukeeindependent.com\/syndicated\/make-room-make-room-impact-overpopulation-environment\/\">Make Room! Make Room! The impact of overpopulation on our environment<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Make Room! Make Room! The impact of overpopulation on our environment&#8221; &#8212; Milwaukee Independent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.milwaukeeindependent.com\/syndicated\/make-room-make-room-impact-overpopulation-environment\/embed\/#?secret=kTcI76wv0z\" data-secret=\"kTcI76wv0z\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panicked discussions of the climate crisis on this stressed planet are often bolstered by background debate on how fast the Earth\u2019s population is growing, and questions of how many people the planet can support. To be sure, a sevenfold increase of the world population over two centuries has stressed the planet to its breaking point. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Many people are asking if overpopulation will break the planet, a fear compounded by the lack of attention given to the issue by elected officials.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25253,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions\/25253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}