Destroy.

Editor,

The global corporate economic model devours living landscapes across the globe and spits out an enormous mountain of toxic garbage in their place. This is not a function of population growth.

Well, the population of consumers in the privileged societies that gorge themselves on the backs of the world's poor certainly is a measure of how much environmental destruction consumer society wreaks on the planet, but the numerical count of how many human beings can live on this planet depends entirely on exactly how those human beings live.

Wealthy urban consumers have no problem blaming the destruction of this planet on too many poor people having too many babies and are incapable of conceiving of a "lifestyle" that doesn't ruin every environment human hands manage to touch.

How we live and what we do with our time determines what our impact is on the planet. These parameters are dictated by the financial ambitions of ruling elites and an economic system whose first principle is: destroy.

Re: "The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion" (6/1/2015)