InterAksyon.com means BUSINESS A big population is often blamed
as the cause of various human problems. This is ironic because
the human species is the most intelligent and most innovative
among the existing species in the planet. People are assets, not
liabilities. In the never-ending debate on population, many
people do not look this way. They think that humanity is a
voracious species that tends to over-consume and over-exploit
existing resources of the planet, resulting in unsustainable use
of such resources, if not “destruction” of the planet as claimed
by the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) or “man-made climate
change” campaigns. Below are some news reports and data pointing
at this misplaced argument. Paul Ehrlich was a famous biologist
from Stanford University who gained prominence in the
1960s-1970s, giving the most alarmist, the most desperate view
of the world as a result of rising population and its impact on
overuse of natural resources. He was the Thomas Malthus
reincarnated during those deca