Time to involve religious leaders!

With 6.6 billion folks living on it, our planet, just like a massive aircraft carrier can no longer be turned on a dime culturally and otherwise. The astute leader will have to find the catalyst, let’s call it the yeast that will slowly, but surely turn it around and position it towards a sustainable future. I’ve said it before; we’re just too many on this place and are breaking the basic safe occupancy rules, so the first order of business would be to put a stop to an uncontrolled birth rate in some specific places of the world. In most cases however, and including my own state of Utah, religion is a major roadblock towards reducing human fertility. That’s where political leaders need to initiate a very serious dialog with their religious counterparts and place the subject on the center of the table. Not much has ever been done in that direction, because religion has always been a convenient conduit for controlling the masses and bringing in their votes and yet, has served as a major road-block in terms of sustainable living, environment best-practices and peace. Ecumenical rapprochement doesn’t seem to be in the best interest of the “big boys” whether they’re among others Catholic or Muslims as it might frail their rigid and fragile “book-based” doctrines, yet that job has to be initiated as we can’t count solely on Hollywood to reshape the human conscience. That step must be taken and the idea must be astutely conveyed so that theologians can realize and accept the fact that by overpopulating the earth we’re no longer the good stewards God had in mind, but rather a bunch of messy and irresponsible squatters. Because this issue has been traditionally pooh-poohed on grounds of religious taboo it’s now time to bring the subject into the open and place the monkey on the back of our religious leaders as an essential element of the “sustainability package.”