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Overpopulation – Is it a problem?

Ever since I have been working and writing about sustainability topics I have come across the discussion on the over population of our earth and that over population is the one of the biggest influencing factors of our current global crisis.
Here is a good discussion about this on SustainabilityForum.com:
Population Discussion

This is my take:

I agree with the fact that we are a lot of people on this planet and that our growth factor is starting to be a topic. I also agree with the fact that we are in the long run will have a serious food crisis due to over population if we continue with how we do things now.
But this is how I would try to tackle the current over population discussion.

1. Invest and promote a higher production efficiency on essential foods such as rice, corn, soya, etc
2. Cap the rearing of animals to have more land and resources available for less a energy intensive production of essential foods. We do not need to all become veggies but meat is far to inexpensive at the moment and not a sustainable food source in the long run.
3. Intensify the efforts and increase the funding of a education on birth control in third world countries
4. Invest heavily in the promotion of a 100% sustainable way of food production
5. Keep hands of the option of changing the DNA of our natural food, we do not know what genetically modified food lead will do to us.

To sum up I wanted to say that we need change in the minds of our brothers and sisters around the globe on how to lead our lives more sustainable. We can do it that is for sure. There is no need for starvation on our planet. We have more then we need.

So lets get to it and if it is only one little change in our lives every day or even one every week.
We need to stick together today to save the problems of tomorrow.