Overpopulation: Explosion or a cancer?

This morning, on NPR, I was listening about a bet made decades ago between Standford's Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 best-seller “The Population Bomb” and Yale's Julian Simon who thought humanity could wiggle our way through overpopulation by being inventive if nothing else. Simon proposed that they bet on what would happen to the price of five metals over a decade, and won his bet.

I think Simon got his timing right but his theory wrong, because today, if there was indeed no “bomb” unlike what Ehrlich predicted, there sure is a ravaging cancer eating up the whole earth alive because we refuse to do anything about overpopulation and the first and most critical component to crumble is our environment.

This radio show was quite timely, because it zeros-in on my current interest and future commitment for the rest of my life. How to successfully wrestle with overpopulation. Now you know where I'm coming from...