I am Ted Schaefer. I admit that I have no particular qualifications to speak on this subject, except a it has interested me for years and I have a science/tech background. It occured to me that the one topic missing from the conversations about global warming was the number of people on the planet. It seems to me that the fastest way to reduce global warming is to reduce the planet's population. The mission of this blog is to begin a dialog around this goal:
Reduce the population by 1 billion: from 6.6 billion to 5.6 billion, about 15%, by the year 2050.
We have to do many things to reduce global warming, all good, but until we get a handle on population, we are only tinkering at the edges.
Would a 1 billion reduction by 2050 be achievable? What does a goal like this imply for a growth oriented world? Why is no one talking about population as part of the problem if not the main problem?
Let me know what you think.
- Ted
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