The elephant in the room

Overpopulation is just like that elephant. I’m currently reading a book about sustainable living on the planet that details all the steps that must be taken and are currently implemented, but at no moment there’s the smallest mention of the impact of population growth. If you’ve seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” he speaks about all the ills created by global warming and pollution, but fails to address the real cause of the problem, namely the fact that world population is totally out of control. Oh, yes, I almost forgot an exception, one smart man who’s holding a strong opinion on the subject; Warren Buffet, the most successful investor on earth… But in the face of all that evidence, why is such an obvious problem pushed under the rug? It can’t just be religious, but I’ve come to the conclusion that no one has really tackled the issue and made it look as ominous as it should be. Opinion, anyone?