Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich

By George Monbiot

It's easy to blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources. But still the wealthy West takes the lion's share.

I cannot avoid the subject any longer. Almost every day I receive a clutch of emails about it, asking the same question. A frightening new report has just pushed it up the political agenda: for the first time the World Food Programme is struggling to find the supplies it needs for emergency famine relief. So why, like most environmentalists, won't I mention the p-word? According to its most vociferous proponents (Paul and Anne Ehrlich), population is "our number one environmental problem". But most greens will not discuss it.

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