While it's an astounding phenomenon that Greta Thunberg enjoys international notoriety for her cause, most of my colleagues over the past 20 years cannot get a moment's notice on the fact that the human race at 7.6 billion people, adds 83,000,000 (million) more, net gain, annually. Humans will add 3 billion more within 30 years to reach 10.1 billion. Consequentially, every single environmental calamity we face----stems from human overpopulation. But our leaders ignore it, and most Americans as well as most of humanity remain clueless as to its ramifications.

There's no question we are leaving Thunberg with a very polluted, overpopulated and contaminated world. We're leaving her with poisons on all our foods thanks to Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Bayer, poisoned oceans, plastic oceans, polluted biosphere, species extinction rates off the charts, crowded and unsustainable cities, starvation rates growing throughout the third world, especially Africa. Yes, she's got a number of legitimate complaints, and they are not being acted upon by world leaders.

"Upwards of one hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety, are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence. Thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes." Daniel Quinn

I lived and worked in Antarctica in 1997-98. I saw the catastrophic climate destabilization models from top scientists back then. Those models predicted Katrina, Harvey, Sandy, Hiyan, Dorian, Michael and more to come. I wrote about it, and the 5.5 trillion pieces of plastic trashing the oceans and killing millions upon millions of marine life, and the chemical contamination along with species extinctions caused by humans---but no one wants to deal with any of it. Thus, we see 5.5 trillion pieces of plastics already discarded into the oceans and 3.5 million added 24/7. Fukushima radiated the oceans with radioactive waste, and of course, we're acidifying the oceans with our massive carbon exhaust. So, in time, the shit will hit the fan when oil reserves are exhausted, and they will be exhausted in this century, then we will be reduced to starvation, collapsed cities and whole civilizations will revert to hunter gatherers. Once oil is exhausted, the party is over.

"As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid." Walter Youngquist, energy

Our species races toward a nasty future in this century. I've already seen much of it during my world travels. In the end, the Darwin Solution will take charge.
Frosty Wooldridge, 6 continent world bicycle traveler