While the climate crisis is very real, entirely too much attention is focused on it as part of the overall environmental destruction that has been caused, and i

While the climate crisis is very real, entirely too much attention is focused on it as part of the overall environmental destruction that has been caused, and is accelerating, due to massive overpopulation. The massive extinction of insects, animals and fish. The saturation of our environment with toxins, waste and industrial chemicals. The destruction of our soil from overfarming and monocropping. The mass extinction of plants and increasing deforestation. The list goes on and on. All direct results of massive overpopulation. Unfortunately most people choose to ignore, or worse yet, deny the obvious because of a variety of factors. Some because of religion, some of of blind faith in technology to solve all of our problem, some out of denial because the problem seem too daunting to face and some out of sheer ignorance and/or stupidity. Many of these people engage in ridiculous hyperbole about potential solutions. They talk about people who understand the problem of overpopulation as seeking mass genocide or forced sterilization. Others talk about the "slowing birth rate" as if a deceleration in population growth (as opposed to a reduction) will cause the problem to solve itself. The fact is that the problem of overpopulation is easily solved if we approach it rationally. Instead of incentivizing people to have children as we do now, offer incentives for people not to have children, both at home and abroad. Offer subsidies to couples who have one or no children and remove subsidies from those who choose to have 2 or more children. Its a problem that could be solved in a generation or two at most if we had the will and intelligence to implement common sense solutions. Unfortunately even many of the people who realize overpopulation is an unsustainable problem refuse to address it out of concerns for our similarly unsustainable economy which depends on endless growth to keep our debt-service based economic pyramid from collapsing. The "wealth" of these people is illusory, based on "debts" that depend on future payments. The fact is that our overpopulation problem is tied to our economic problem. Neither will be solved unless and until people are willing to face reality and work towards solutions. Both will end disastrously in time if we choose to ignore them and pretend they are sustainable.