Too Many People

It strikes me that the vast majority of our problems on this planet stem from one thing: there are just too many people on it. Perhaps the single most important long term solution to our environmental woes is to reduce the world's population, and this is something we can all act on.

Some things we can do:

• Don't have any more than two children
• Lobby political parties to restrict immigration to maintain zero population growth
• Contribute to contraception programmes in third-world countries

The Green Party's population policy is a good start ...