Coherence

In my view, global interconnections between the different actual crises are still being ignored.
Powerful traditional taboos make us short-sighted.

Our suicidal exponential growth does more than increase our mobility, it releases an incredible amount of hothouse gases into our biosphere.
Simultaneously, we tamper with nature's stabilising mechanisms.
An increasing world population also increasingly destroys the green plant surfaces of the planet. "Regeneration" of the atmosphere by photosynthesis is decreased at the same time.
The planet's most significant carbon-dioxide-to-oxygen - machine, marine algae in the plankton, are also blocked.

In the face of global wind movements (air masses and fronts generally move from West to East in the northern hemisphere), local measures to improve air quality appear cynical. Reducing speed limits for motorised traffic from 100 to 80 km/h has no influence in calm weather and even less when the wind blows. Our neighbours to the East will get it!

What are your thoughts, when you catch the following news:

"The poisonous gas cloud meanwhile has dissipated.
"The smog over Mexico City has noticebly decreased, since the wind came back.
"The oil slick is moving from the coast towards the open sea and is dissolving.

The main point then follows:
At no time has the population been in danger!

NEVER shall we find a correspondent who, in the course of his comment, points a finger at the basic problem lurking behind most crises and catastrophes.
The mere reference to global overpopulation and its excessive "footprint" is a taboo.
Let's break it while there is still time.

What is currently understood by "protection of the environment"is the analoge to symptomatic therapy in medicine.
Instead of dealing with the root of the evil, we limit ourselves and treat the topic symptoms of global overpopulation only.

Try to digist the latest catastrophic news from Africa while keeping in mind that you know about the prime role played by overpopulation.

The reason why population crises are hardly ever touched is twofold:

"Political Correctness" forbids discussions about the exponential growth of population in the developing countries.
We are trying to avoid being branded as "racist", given that those groups wildly multiply, while the industrialised nations stagnate.

While we have made great progress in the freedom of speech on subjects such as sex and disease, population growth is still "taboo".
That is why you are reading this essay in a philosophical discussion forum, called the "Taboo-Breaker".

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