Stanford: Controlling the Population Won’t Stop ‘Environmental Issues’ - Top US & World News | Susanne Posel
According to researchers at Stanford University say that “the planet’s large, growing, and overconsuming human population, especially the increasing affluent component, is rapidly eroding many of the Earth’s natural ecosystems” and controlling the growth of the world’s population will not save these ecosystems.
The study asserts that not even a catastrophic event that killed billions of people would affect the impact humans make on the planet.
Corey Bradshaw , professor and director of ecological modeling at the University of Adelaide (UA) explained: “We’ve gone past the point where we can do it easily, just by the sheer magnitude of the population, what we call the demographic momentum. We just can’t stop it fast enough.”
Bradshaw goes on: “Even draconian measures for fertility control still won’t arrest that growth rate – we’re talking century-scale reductions rather than decadal scale, because of the magnitude. Even if we had a third world war in the middle of this century, you would barely make a dent in the trajectory over the next 100 years.”
This study points to resource depletion based on population booms have caused “environmental challenges” that cannot be righted because there are just too many of us.
