Let's not kid ourselves. This is a race issue.

Overpopulation is world problem, not a race problem or a national problem. If every nation on earth had the population density of India, there would be preciously little rainforest or even dry forest left on earth.

The Bengal Tiger, along with every other wild species in India will soon be extinct. India's water tables are dropping so fast that many towns are being evacuated because they have no water. India, along with Bangladesh, Pakastan and China are perhaps the most overpopulated countries on earth. Their rivers are drying up, their water tables are dropping by meters per year and, especially in China, their topsoil is either blowing away or being washed away. China is losing 1,400 Square Miles to desert each year!

From 1950 to 1975 China lost an average of 600 square miles of land (1,560 square kilometers) to desert each year. By 2000, nearly 1,400 square miles were going to desert annually.

Most African countries are overpopulated. The Sahara desert is expanding by thousands of square miles per year. One country alone, Nigeria, is losing 1,355 square miles to desertification each year. Same URL as above:

Nigeria, slightly larger than Texas, is losing 1,355 square miles of rangeland and cropland to desertification each year. While Nigeria’s human population was growing from 33 million in 1950 to 134 million in 2006, a fourfold expansion, its livestock population grew from 6 million to 66 million, an 11-fold increase. With the food needs of its people forcing the plowing of marginal land and the forage needs of livestock exceeding the carrying capacity of its grasslands, the country is slowly turning to desert. Nigeria’s fast-growing population is being squeezed into an ever-smaller area.

A racial problem My Ass! It is a population problem pure and simple. Simply by pointing out how much more energy the US uses, per capita, you cannot turn a devastating population problem int a racial problem. True, we use far more than our fair share of energy, but the vast overpopulation problem of the world is devastating the habitat of the people that live in those countries.

Ron Patterson